Sustainable Global Transformation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #53

One Community is creating sustainable global transformation through open source and free-shared global-transformation blueprints 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 (#53) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of February 24th, 2014:

Sustainable Global Transformation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #53

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed another 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (see below)
• Finished the rest of the Values Subject web page
• Completed 20% of the Health Subject research (topic and images behind the scenes)
• Now 60% complete with the English Subject research (topic and images behind the scenes)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:49

• Ran more sunlight simulations on the Aquapini & Walipini designs (see below)
• Continued designing the passive cooling labyrinth in 3-D (see below)
• Completed sunlight calculations comparing the current Tropical Atrium design to a 50% glazing (see below)
• Zdenek Jurik continued engineering on the Aquapini & Walipini roof design (see below)
• David Sweet completed a 3rd roof plan for the skylights (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala shared the first real-to-life 3D render of the complete phase I food infrastructure (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:17

• Completed the rest of the planting plan for the complete outer ring of the Earthbag Village  (see below)
• Victor Herber made more huge progress on the vermiculture toilet engineering (see below)
• Philip Gill  also updated the murphy bed dome home custom furniture design to have an 8′ ceiling (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:56

• Completed 3-D details for the aesthetic features around the indoor/outdoor swimming pool (see below)
• Completed a redesign of the first 3 floors of stairs to match Karl’s work from last week (see below)
• Completed the rest of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign
• Douglas Simms Stenhouse finished the final pre-painting drawing for the duplicable city center (see below)
• Joel Newman has begun real-to-life renders of what this building is going to look like (see below)
• Completed the rest of the new natural pool and eco-hot tub open source page (see below)
• Karl Harris finished another redesign of the 4th floor and the roof (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION SUMMARY: @7:57

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable global transformation 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 finished another 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image:

Arts and Trades Molecule In Progress

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable global transformation 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 ran more sunlight simulations on the Aquapini & Walipini designs to test our newest skylight layout:

We also finished designing the passive cooling labyrinth in 3-D:

Passive Cooling Labyrinth

And completed sunlight calculations comparing the current Tropical Atrium design to a 50% glazing with insulating shutters design:

Tropical Atrium Heat Calculations

* Note: “Extra” denotes more than the amount of BTUs needed to keep the TA at temperature given perfect thermal mass and transfer at night. Thermal mass capacity needs to be the absolute value of the night BTUs needed.

Zdenek Jurik (P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer and founder of ABC Engineering) continued engineering on the Aquapini & Walipini roof design and has been able to safely reduce the roof beam sizes (and their associated costs) from 16″ to 12″:

Engineering on Aquapini & Walipini Roof Design In Progress

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) completed a 3rd roof plan for the skylights – getting closer and closer to what we’ll actually be using:

3rd Roof Plan for the Skylights

Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com) shared the first real-to-life 3D render of the central pond component of the complete phase I food infrastructure:

Real-To-Life 3D Render of Central Pond In Progress

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable global transformation 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 the core team completed the rest of the planting plan for the complete outer ring of the Earthbag Village:

Planting Plan for Outer Ring of the Earthbag Village

Victor Herber (Mechanical Engineer) also made more huge progress on the vermiculture toilet engineering which you can see here. The plan now is a steel framework that will support aluminum trays 3′ wide by 7′ long. This will allow us to use the lighter (and much easier to remove and empty) aluminum trays while maintaining the needed structural integrity of the foundational tray system by using heavier steel:

Vermiculture Toilet Engineering Stress Calculations

Vermiculture Toilet Engineering Materials Assessment

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also updated the murphy bed dome home custom furniture design to have an 8′ ceiling, providing us with more loft room and a design consistent with the Student’s Shared Room furniture design and the Children’s Shared Room furniture designs (see below)

Murphy Bed with added Loft for Dome Home

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable global transformation 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 3-D details for the aesthetic rock and swimming pool features around the indoor/outdoor swimming pool:

3-D Details for the Aesthetic Rock and Waterfall Natural Swimming Pool Features

We also completed a redesign of the first 3 floors of stairs to match Karl’s work from last week:

Duplicable City Center Stairs Developing in 3D

Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) finished the final pre-painting drawing for the Duplicable City Center rendering that will be replacing the current drawing at the top of all the new duplicable city center pages. Here is a picture of this pre-rendering from Doug:

Duplicable City Center Pre-painting Sketch

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) has also begun work on real-to-life renders of the Duplicable City Center:

Real-to-Life Renders of the Duplicable City Center In Progress

Along with all this, we completed the rest of the new natural pool and eco-hot tub open source page and Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com) is now 50% of the way done with pricing out all the natural pool hardware originally selected in collaboration with (Swimming Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting). Here is a screenshot of this work in progress:

Pool Construction Cost Summary In Progress

Last but not least, Karl Harris finished another redesign of the 4th floor including a 2nd women’s bathroom stall and a new roof design to match the design of the existing cupola roof:

Duplicable City Center Women’s Bathroom Stall and New Roof Redesign

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