Building Sustainable Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #54

One Community is building sustainable communities through open source and free-shared DIY blueprints, tools, tutorials, and resources for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#54) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of March 3rd, 2014:

Building Sustainable Communities
One Community Weekly Progress Update #54

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed another 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (see below)
• Now 80% done with the Health Subject research (topic and images behind the scenes)
• Researched another 250 images for the Science Subject Molecule (we think we’re about 50% done)
• Added an additional online resources section to the Math Subject page
• Created a written and video tutorial on image research and theme mindmap creation

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Completed skylight 3-D simulations on the Aquapini & Walipini designs (see below)
• David Sweet finished putting the first Zenapini layouts into CAD (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala is also about 50% done with the Large-scale Aquapini in 3DS Max  (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:36

• Victor Herber simplified the vermiculture toilet designs and reduced the costs (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:32

• Completed a long list of added miscellaneous 3-D details (see below)
• 50% Complete with the planting plan for this structure
• Doug Stenhouse also finished the watercolor render of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Joel Newman has started creating the landscaping for the real-to-life render (see below)
• Karl Harris finished the final Duplicable City Center layout in CAD (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @6:46

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are building sustainable communities through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• Learn about the components: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  

This last week the core team completed another 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image:

Art/Music and Trade Skills Subject Image – Almost Complete

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are building sustainable communities through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team completed skylight simulations on the Aquapini & Walipini designs, testing the difference between flush skylights, horizontal skylights, 50% versus 100% solar penetration, and the addition of reflective surfaces versus non-reflective surfaces. The results as shown below show that flush skylights combined 100% solar penetration and the addition of reflective surfaces will maximize sunlight in these structures and increase this sunlight where we want it most: against the North wall.

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) finished putting the first Zenapini layouts into CAD and now we’re going to start putting this into 3D so we can work out some additional needed details. Here are the before and after images:

Before and After Pictures of the First Zenapini Layouts in CAD

Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com) is also about 50% done with the Large-scale Aquapini in 3DS Max:

Large-scale Aquapini in 3DS Max – 50% Complete

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are building sustainable communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week Victor Herber (Mechanical Engineer) managed to eliminate about 40% of our materials while simplifying the entire design and also making it easier to empty. What you see here is a steel framework that will hold removable aluminum 3’x7′ trays. The steel structure will be able to be lifted with jacks to remove the bottom tray, and the bottom steel support framework, lower all the other trays with the jacks, and then empty the tray place it and the support framework back on the top.

Vermiculture Design Progress

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are building sustainable communities through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the core team completed a long list of added 3-D details including doors to the 1st and 2nd floor storage areas, safety railings, and new bathroom locations:

Duplicable City Center Added 3-D Details

We also redid the railings to match the new stair designs:

Railings that Match the New Stair Designs

We are also now done with about 50% of the complete internal and external planting plan for this structure:

Internal and External Planting Plan – 50% Complete

Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) finished the final watercolor rendering of the Duplicable City Center:

Duplicable City Center Watercolor by Douglas Simms Stenhouse – Click to Enlarge

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) has continued with beautiful progress on the real-to-life render of this building. Here was his first render of the week:

Duplicable City Center Real-to-Life Render

Next Joel turned to creating the environment in which the building will be placed in the final images. Starting with the Google Earth file of the actual property, he created a height map image showing terrain in shades of grey with white as the highest elevation, and black is the lowest:

Height Map Image Showing Terrain

He then loaded this into a terrain generator which created geometry like this:

Terrain Generator Photo

Once this terrain was created, he was able to place a camera on it and start adding ground textures and vegetation and such. Here is the beginning of this:

Ground Textures and Vegetation

Then, taking the original render and putting it together with the terrain he created this:

Duplicable City Center Render with Added Terrain

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished the final Duplicable City Center layout in CAD including updating the central area to match design changes made in 3D, some additional support pillar placement, more redesign details for the storage areas, stairway and mezzanine level touchups in the Dining Dome, emergency exit touchups, and more. Now he’ll be moving on to CAD elevations and window specifics:

Final Duplicable City Center Layout in CAD-Click to go to open source hub and click photo there to enlarge

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