Architecture and Permacuture: More in common than you may think...

Architecture
and
Permaculture.
...designing a Sustainable future.

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Architecture:


Architecture:
The study of architecture develops intellectual, professional, and creative
knowledge and skill.


Architecture:

Architectural studies allow students to generate physical solutions to
complex environmental design problems that often have competing
economic, social, and political parameters.


Architecture:

Architectural studies allow students to generate physical solutions to
complex environmental design problems that often have competing
economic, social, and political parameters.

The profession of architecture attracts those who have a wide range of
interests and skills and wish to make a unique contribution to society.


Permaculture:


Permaculture:
The study of permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than
against nature.


Permaculture:
against nature.

Permaculture studies allow students to create systems that are ecologically
viable, which provide for their own needs, do not exploit or pollute, and are
therefore sustainable in the long term.


Permaculture:
against nature.

Permaculture studies allow students to create systems that are ecologically
viable, which provide for their own needs, do not exploit or pollute, and are
therefore sustainable in the long term.

Permacuture is a design system for creating sustainable human
environments.


Ethos of Architecture:


1. Firmitas ...a building must be solid.



2. Utilitas ...a building must be useful.



2. Utilitas ...a building must be useful.

3. Venustas ...a building must be beautiful.

[source: Vitruvius’ ‘De architectura’]


Ethos of Permaculture:


1. Care of the Earth ...includes all living and non-living things– plants, animals,
land, water and air.



2. Care of People ...promotes self-reliance and community responsibility–
access to resources necessary for existence.



2. Care of People ...promotes self-reliance and community responsibility–
access to resources necessary for existence.

3. Sharing of Resources ...gives away surplus– contribution of surplus time,
labor, money, information, and energy to achieve the aims of earth and people
care.
[source: [Online] www.permacultureactivist.net (2010)]


1. Observe and Interact:

‘Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works
collaborate with the creator.’

- Antonio Gaudi -


1. Observe and Interact:
By taking the time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our
particular situation.

‘Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works
collaborate with the creator.’

- Antonio Gaudi -


2. Catch and Store Energy:

‘...as our culture tortures itself now with tyrranies and concerns over limits and
fear, we can add this other dimension of abundance, that is coherent, driven by
the sun, and start to imagine what that would be like to share.’

- William McDonough -


2. Catch and Store Energy:
By developing systems that collect resources when they are abundant, we can
use them in times of need.

‘...as our culture tortures itself now with tyrranies and concerns over limits and
fear, we can add this other dimension of abundance, that is coherent, driven by
the sun, and start to imagine what that would be like to share.’

- William McDonough -


3. Obtain a Yield:

‘All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that
contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.’

- Philip Johnson -


3. Obtain a Yield:
Ensure that you are getting truly useful rewards as part of the work that you
are doing.

‘All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that
contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.’

- Philip Johnson -


4. Apply Self-Regulation and Accept Feedback:

‘No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill.
Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. ’

- Frank Lloyd Wright -


4. Apply Self-Regulation and Accept Feedback:
We need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can
continue to function well.

‘No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill.
Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. ’



5. Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services:

‘Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the
day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.’



5. Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services:
Make the best use of nature's abundance to reduce our consumptive behaviour
and dependence on non-renewable resources.

‘Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the
day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.’



6. Produce No Waste:

‘Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to
disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.’

- R. Buckminster Fuller -


6. Produce No Waste:
By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing
goes to waste.

‘Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to
disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.’

- R. Buckminster Fuller -


7. Design From Patterns to Details:

‘Combining an understanding of building and energy systems with the site's
natural flows of sun, wind, water, and vegetation, designers discover an "essay of
clues" that suggests appropriate patterns for development of the landscape.’

- William McDonough,
from the essay ‘A Building Like a Tree, A Campus Like a Forest’ -


7. Design From Patterns to Details:
By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can
form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.

‘Combining an understanding of building and energy systems with the site's
natural flows of sun, wind, water, and vegetation, designers discover an "essay of
clues" that suggests appropriate patterns for development of the landscape.’

- William McDonough,
from the essay ‘A Building Like a Tree, A Campus Like a Forest’ -


8. Integrate Rather Than Segregate:

‘The promise of landscape urbanism is the development of a space-time ecology
that treats all forces and agents working in the urban field and considers them as
continuous networks of inter-relationships.’

- James Corner, from the essay ‘Terra Fluxus’ -


8. Integrate Rather Than Segregate:
By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those
things and they work together to support each other.

‘The promise of landscape urbanism is the development of a space-time ecology
that treats all forces and agents working in the urban field and considers them as
continuous networks of inter-relationships.’

- James Corner, from the essay ‘Terra Fluxus’ -


9. Use Small and Slow Solutions:

‘Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.’

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -


9. Use Small and Slow Solutions:
Small and slow systems are easier to maintain than big ones, making better use
of local resources and producing more sustainable outcomes.

‘Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.’

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -


10. Use and Value Diversity:

‘In any organized object, extreme compartmentalization and the dissociation of
internal elements are the first signs of coming destruction.’

- Christopher Alexander,
from the essay ‘A City Is Not A Tree’ -


10. Use and Value Diversity:
Diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the
unique nature of the environment in which it resides.

‘In any organized object, extreme compartmentalization and the dissociation of
internal elements are the first signs of coming destruction.’

- Christopher Alexander,
from the essay ‘A City Is Not A Tree’ -


11. Use The Edges and Value The Marginal:

‘Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and
something good will happen, and it has.’

- Frank Ghery -


11. Use The Edges and Value The Marginal:
The interface between things is where the most interesting events take place.
These are often the most valuable, diverse and productive elements in the
system.

‘Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and
something good will happen, and it has.’

- Frank Ghery -


12. Creatively Use and Respond to Change:

‘Don't fight forces, use them.’

- R Buckminster Fuller -


12. Creatively Use and Respond to Change:
We can have a positive impact on inevitable change by carefully observing, and
then intervening at the right time.

‘Don't fight forces, use them.’

- R Buckminster Fuller -


Permaculture and Architecture:
The study of the Permaculture design system and ethos will help
to develop the architecture student’s ability to observe and learn
from nature.


from nature.

Many of the greatest minds in Architecture recognise, and actively
integrate the positive influence of nature into their designs.


from nature.

Many of the greatest minds in Architecture recognise, and actively
integrate the positive influence of nature into their designs.

The architect who seeks to incorporate and honor the natural
world in their designs can’t help but to produce works which
enhance, serve, and manifest beauty...


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