Comments on: Recovering America http://ecobrooklyn.com/recovering-america/ Green Design/Build Firm Specializing in Passive House and Salvage Renovation Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:20:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heather Y http://ecobrooklyn.com/recovering-america/comment-page-1/#comment-70209 Heather Y Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:50:58 +0000 http://ecobrooklyn.com/?p=2353#comment-70209 Hmmm, how about redisigning that mall along the lines of the gaudy, partial earth sheltered builing-imagine a mall sshopper who could tell the kids " okay, you play outside in the park on top of the building while I shop"! OK, lose the onion domes. Hmmm, how about redisigning that mall along the lines of the
gaudy, partial earth sheltered builing-imagine a mall sshopper who could tell the kids ” okay, you play outside in the park on top of the building while I shop”!

OK, lose the onion domes.

]]> By: Nick http://ecobrooklyn.com/recovering-america/comment-page-1/#comment-70207 Nick Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:49:12 +0000 http://ecobrooklyn.com/?p=2353#comment-70207 While burying or berming buildings is probably the most profound first step you can make in an environmentally sensitive design (regarding thrift in material and energy expenditure), the issue Wells addresses with those photos is less about burying buildings and more about a society that supports and is recursively supported by disaggregation and all the energy and material dissipation inherent in such a model. The real problem here concerns car related infrastructure and a society's dependence on them, not habitable building. While burying or berming buildings is probably the most profound first step you can make in an environmentally sensitive design (regarding thrift in material and energy expenditure), the issue Wells addresses with those photos is less about burying buildings and more about a society that supports and is recursively supported by disaggregation and all the energy and material dissipation inherent in such a model. The real problem here concerns car related infrastructure and a society’s dependence on them, not habitable building.

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