Sustainability Is Not Dead: House Design Using Green Building Methods For Eco-Punks And Budding Architects

Do you want to save the world? Well, do you, PUNK? This book is a wildly whimsical introduction to sustainable architecture for young people and/or those who aspire to design eco-friendly/green buildings in the future (aka Eco-Punks), to save our planet. The book format is laid out with twelve chapters, each chapter explaining a category of sustainable house design. From chapter twelve, the reader and author design a sustainable house project together, going step by step with drawings and sustainable building concepts and by using the methods learned in the previous chapters. In the end, the reader gets a chance to not only see how a house goes through the design process but also how sustainable elements are used in that design.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• What sustainable design is
• The best location to orient a house
• Passive/Active heating ideas for a house
• How to use the sun to your advantage
• The Korean ondol floor heating system
• What a Trombe Wall is
• Heating with a water wall
• Heating/Cooling a house using the earth
• All about ventilation
• What earth tubes are and how they are used
• Roof ponds
• Cooling a house using the wind
• Saving water with rain harvesting
• Several ways to heat water for a house
• Making your own electricity and getting paid for it
• All about solar and wind power
• How hydropower works
• Recycling building materials for a house
• Growing your own food with an attached greenhouse
• Composting and composting toilets
• All about tiny houses (ie using shipping containers)
• Tiny house tips and tricks
• Eco-friendly appliances

You can also get some hands-on training while actually making easy-to-build sustainable elements with the super fun projects that are scattered thought out this book. Each project comes with the materials needed, plus step-by-step instructions to make each object.


PROJECTS INCLUDE:

1. Make an adobe brick
2. Build a dew water collector
3. Build a small wind turbine
4. Make wood out of paper
5. Build a mini solar car

THE FUN STARTS AT CHAPTER 12

This is where you can take all the knowledge you have learned to design a fully functional sustainable house along with the architect. Author/Architect, Albert B. Squid takes you on a journey to design a sustainable house step-by-step. Follow along as you witness a sustainable house unfold right before your eyes. From correctly orienting the house on the site to using all the passive/active elements to using recycled materials such as doors and windows to harvesting rainwater and heating the floor with a traditional Korean ondol and much more all explained with brilliantly drawn floor plans and elevations.


And if all that is not enough, the last section of the book is dedicated to a unique glossary that not only gives definitions of common words like SUSTAINABLE and PASSIVE SOLAR but also off-the-wall words like ECO-PUNK and VERMICOMPOSTING!