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Green Building April 10th Luncheon: Biophilic Building Design = Symbiotic Climate Response Solutions

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Chris

Earth’s climate and our man-made environment is at a tipping point. Designers and builders must embrace a more urgent and far reaching purpose and responsibility, in ways that regenerate and nourish the health and beauty of our built environmental and planet. This presentation will cover state-of-the-art practices and conceptual future systems and methods needed to create organic buildings that embrace accountability with respect to climate change and quality of life. Inspiring current opportunities and evolving case studies will be explored.

Fred Øesch is the principal of Øesch Environmental Design of Charlottesville, VA. He has designed and built alternative “green” architecture, custom interiors, furniture, and produced fine art for over 35 years. His specialties include: solar, timber frame, straw bale, vegetated roofs, earth shelters, and passive environmental control systems. You can follow his work at fredoesch.com

Fee: Free for members and $10 for nonmembers. Register Here

Lunch will be provided.

Meeting space generously sponsored by City of Charlottesville

Categories: Announcements, Architecture, Design, Resilience | Tags: architecture, Charlottesville, community, environment, Gardening, Sustainability, Tiny Housing, USGBC | Leave a comment

Crozet Pocket Neighborhood #2: St George Cottages

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Chris

Crozet, Virginia is becoming a vibrant, bustling, livable and walkable center. Within walking distance of all the amenities that this growing town has to offer in the heart of an existing neighborhood is the possibility of yet another community that shifts the focus away from the personal automobile to personal interaction. Click here to see the full design.

If you want to live here, invest in the concept, or help make it a reality please contact us.

Categories: Announcements, Architecture, Communities, Design | Tags: 22932, 5658 Saint George Ave, 5658 St George, 5658 St George Ave, co-housing, common area, common house, community, Conservation, craftsmanship, Crozet, Ecovillage, for sale, low impact, Neighborhood, pocket neighborhood, property, Site Plan, Sustainability, Village, Virginia, walking trails | Leave a comment

GVGBC August 9th Luncheon: Charlottesville SIA

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Chris

Join us downtown on Tuesday, August 9th downtown Charlottesville for the monthly seminar on green building.

Technically, the Strategic Investment Area (or SIA) is the area just south of the downtown mall that the city has chosen as a targeted area for revitalization and reinvestment. This vision goes beyond economic stimulus by aspiring to create a vibrant, healthy place with more opportunity for current residents as well as new.

Matthew Slaats and the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative (The Bridge PAI) are already hard at work building relationships and understanding through art; embracing the past, creating in the present, and planting seeds for the future. They celebrate all the things that make our neighborhoods unique by championing the vibrancy, skills and knowledge that resides in us all; through cookouts, talent shows, exhibitions, workshops, and community projects that bring us together and help define the future of our city.

He will inform us of the current initiatives, challenges, inspiring stories, and visions for the future of a city created by all of the people who call it home.

The luncheon will be held at City Space, 100 5th St. NE, on the Downtown Mall, Charlottesville, VA. Doors open at 11:45 and the Seminar begins at 12:00. Register Here

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Crozet Pocket Neighborhood

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Chris

Crozet, Virginia is becoming a vibrant, bustling, livable and walkable center. Within walking distance of all the amenities that this growing town has to offer in the heart of an existing neighborhood is the possibility of a community that shifts the focus away from the personal automobile to personal interaction. Click here to see the full design.

If you want to live here, invest in the concept, or help make it a reality please contact us.

Categories: Announcements, Architecture, Communities, Design | Tags: 22932, 5665 Park Rd, 5665 Park Road, co-housing, common area, common house, community, Conservation, craftsmanship, Crozet, Ecovillage, for sale, low impact, Neighborhood, pocket neighborhood, property, Site Plan, Sustainability, Village, Virginia, walking trails | Leave a comment

Ecovillage Charlottesville Updates

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Chris

Check out the latest and greatest plans for the buildings of Ecovillage Charlottesville designed in collaboration with Øesch Environmental Design featuring compact, energy efficient living spaces in the form of flats and townhouses with a large indoor/outdoor shared kitchen and dining area spaces on the rooftop and the utmost attention to livability, natural light, privacy, energy efficiency, and functionality.

See the latest designs here:

Categories: Announcements, Architecture, Communities, Design | Tags: 480 Rio Rd, architecture, community, Ecovillage, Energy, environment, Passive solar building design, Sustainability | Leave a comment

UVA Sustainability Days

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Chris

Thursday11/13 & Friday 11/14 UVA Sustainability Days
Events start at 9:30 am Thursday and end by 2pm Friday. See schedule for exact times and locations
Take part in UVA Sustainability Days to celebrate and innovate sustainable solutions on Grounds. There will be sustainability-themed events such as a Poster Competition, Film Screening, Zero Waste Workshop, Panel Discussion, Hoos Talking Green, and much more! Please RSVP, as space is limited for some of the events. Free. Info. and RSVP at http://www.virginia.edu/sustainability/u-va-sustainability-days/

Categories: Announcements, Energy Efficiency | Tags: community, Energy, environment, Sustainability, Technology | Leave a comment

Tiny House Parking

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Chris

So you’ve decided to simplify your life, get rid of all the clutter and more into a tiny house on wheels, but there’s one catch: where do you live? It’s tricky. One option is to buy some land, but if you aren’t planning on being off the grid you’re going to need electrical hookup and perhaps a well, maybe even a septic system. All of this gets expensive and a little outside of the original idea of downsizing, especially when there are plenty of people who would be more than willing to rent a little place on their property with everything you need already there in exchange for a little rent and utility sharing. With the transient nature of our culture, we’ve lost a lot of the real social networks that would have once made it very easy to find a place like this. A brand new site called TinyHouseParking is trying to network people living in Tiny Houses with those who have the land and desire to help this tiny movement get some traction!

Categories: Announcements, Communities, Tiny Housing | Tags: community, Intentional Living, low impact, Sustainability, Tiny Housing | Leave a comment

Ecovillage Presentation

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Chris

This is a presentation which gives a rough introduction to the Ecovillage Charlottesville project. It was built to be an introduction for UVA’s “Engineering Students Without Borders” student group

Categories: Announcements, Communities, Design, Resilience | Tags: 480 Rio Rd, Charlottesville, common house, community, Ecovillage, environment, low impact, Meadowcreek Parkway, Neighborhood, Sustainability, walking trails | Leave a comment

Ecovillage Charlottesville Update

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Chris

The latest version of the Ecovillage Charlottesville site plan is finally here! The project has picked up a ton of traction lately, so keep checking www.facebook.com/EcovillageCharlottesville for status updates.

Here are some renderings for one idea of what could be built… House designs inspired by http://www.rosschapin.com/ and http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

If you feel like drawing your own idea for what the Ecovillage could look like, here are some 8.5×11 printable sketches that make it easy for the ideas to flow onto paper. Please share your ideas!

Categories: Announcements, Communities | Tags: 480 Rio Rd, architecture, Charlottesville, Charlottesville Virginia, community, Ecovillage, low impact, Neighborhood | Leave a comment

The Napoleon Complex

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Chris

A community of tiny houses! This is a really neat idea if they can keep architectural unity and keep it well maintaned through the years. It will be really interested to see how they make this project happen as it is out of the realm of what city planners and zoning officials have ever seen.

Categories: Architecture, Communities, Design, Tiny Housing | Tags: California, common area, common house, community, Neighborhood, The Housing Lab, Tiny Housing | Leave a comment