Creating a World that Works for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #48

Posted on January 28, 2014 by One Community

Creating a World that Works for Everyone
One Community Weekly Progress Update #48

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

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS INTRO @0:10

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:30

Values image research is now 80% complete
We are now organizing the Art/Music and Trade Skills molecule content
The Matter and Materials Lesson Plan page is now 95% complete!

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:44

50 ‘final’ Food Forest page plants are done and on the site
Highest Good food open source portal redesign is done
Large-scale Aquapini 3-D continues to progress (see below)
Aquapini roof lighting study is done to determine the best roof design (see below)
The in-ground structural details continue to progress in CAD (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:04

Earthbag Village: Began the planting plan details for the whole village (20% done)
Redesigning the Straw Bale Village open source portal (50% done)
Victor Herber completed the vermiculture toilet research for worm space and temperature needs and processing ability

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:41

Finished the Social Dome bathrooms (see below)
Finished CAD indoor pool and CAD window placement (see below)

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS CLOSE: @9:56

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating a world that works for everyone 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 & harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team, with the help of Avery Ellis (Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics), finished the overflow pipe details, stone pathway, south sump-adjacent grow zones, plants in the pond, plant diversity in the DWC 1, and bell siphons:

aquapini evolving in Sketchup, One Community

Aquapini Grow Zones and Piping Evolving in Sketchup – Click to Enlarge

We also did a new and detailed sunlight and heat study on the Large-scale Aquapini for our specific location and with 4 different proposed roof designs. Here are the results showing the 12′ (3.66 m) South wall and 50% East and West won out as the best when combined with shutters that we will build to cover all glazed areas at night:

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) finished the basics of all 6 aquapini & walipini structures in CAD. Here’s the CAD export showing them:

Aquapinis and Walipinis Evolving in CAD – Click for the Open Source Hub

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating a world that works for everyone 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 team completed all the social dome bathroom details: mirrors, sinks, hand dryers, toilet paper dispensers, trash cans, and an adjacent cleaning closet: