Natural Gas

Interesting article about natural gas extraction out of shale and how it will change global geopolitics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/business/energy-environment/10gas.html

Anchorage Mayor Seeking Energy Plans

Anchorage Mayor Seeking Energy Plans

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Thermodynamic Beauty

Hi all,

Here you will find a link to a very interesting article by Spanish architect Inaki Abalos. Unluckily I cannot find an English version of it and in the web page is only available in French and Spanish. I do not know how good your Spanish is but it definitely deserves giving it a try.

Best,

M

http://www.mansilla-tunon.com/circo/epoca7/pdf/2009_157.pdf

Maps of Different Energy Resources

Here you can find maps on different Energy Resources of United States. I have uploaded low resolution version. Go to the link for high resolution.

Satire

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/176354/july-21-2008/better-know-a-lobby---the-environmental-lobby

Like Bjarke was saying during our pinup, the environmental movement needs to mediate people's unsustainable lifestyles and peculiar desires when promoting their agenda. When Colbert uses hair spray in front of the Sierra Club director, he is making a point about when this movement falls short, and yet it brings out of him the most important point: it's all about ecological footprint. Even if you flew over here, at least you recycle.

Solar powered supertower

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/17/solar-powered-supertower-to-eclipse-the-burj-dubai/#

a nice web site of vernacular housing

http://housingprototypes.org/project?File_No=ITA014

Humid Subtropical. pdf

http://drop.io/gsapp_ewe_bi_update/asset/humid-subtropical-pdf

Book Alert: Olgyay II

Another book by Olgyay & Olgyay:
Solar Control and Shading Devices

This one is not as dear to the wallet:
http://www.amazon.com/Control-Shading-Devices-Aladar-Olgyay/dp/0691023581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253202691&sr=8-1

Hope you find some useful techniques in here!

Book Alert: Olgyay

Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism

Here's amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Climate-Bioclimatic-Architectural-Regionalism/dp/B000O8D3HU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253200732&sr=8-2

But probably easier to check out at Avery.

Mediterranean Climate Zone

Tropical Savanna

Download information regarding the Tropical Savanna climate region at http://drop.io/gsapp_eWe_bi_update/asset/tropical-savana-pdf

All Climate Zones

Here is the overall Climate Zones Map and all of the climate icons.

Here is the map and cities of the Continental Zone. I haven't finished the vernacular architecture examples/analysis because those radar graphs took so damn long.

BI mail is full!

BI! Make some room for our weekly update!

M

Green Book Reference

Good General Green Book - recommended by Paul Lewis of LTL. Thanks Paul!

Updated Koppen Geiger Climated Map - Circa. 2006

Climate Zone Groupings

Here are the 5 categories that we discussed towards the end of class today. I looked back through the zone descriptions and they seem to make sense.

Was anything else decided after I ran off to class? How should we reconfigure who is working on which zones? Sign-up list in studio 2 or 3 people per group?

1. Desert/Steppe/Tropical Savannah


2. Polar/Subarctic/Alpine


3. Humid/Subtropical/Equatorial


4. Oceanic/Mediterranean


5. Continental

Hexagonal Hydropolis

Water retention for a desert planet

Termite Pavilion

http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/event_update_the_termite_pavilion_at_pestival_in_london_uk/

Amazing Ant Colony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozkBd2p2piU

Rudofsky is alive!

Hey guys,

Here attached you will find some Rudofsky images I collected last semester. I also included some quotes that clearly expresses what Rudofsky expected from this exhibition. In the library you can find a couple of copies of the catalog including the first edition.

Enjoy!

(apparently we can't attach non-image files so I have created a drop.io, which is a small free online server and uploaded the file there; feel free to use it for other contents)

http://drop.io/gsapp_eWe
password: vernacular2.0

M

ECO-TECT BASICS

Hi everyone,

Please have this site on hand:

http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/cfm/weather_data.cfm

we will use it in our tutorial tomorrow at 2PM Fayerweather.

Sincerely,

Eric

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