Green Making

Designing Your Natural Home: A Practical Guide
	Author: David Pearson Copyright: 2005 by Gaia Books (imprint of Harper Collins) Useful Pages: 143 Length of Index: 4 pages Table of Contents: Introduction Case Study 1: Posts Standing Chapter 1: Design for Natural Living Case Study 2: Funk Homestead Chapter 2: Choosing Your Approach Case Study 3: Springfield Cohousing Chapter 3: Getting Started Case Study 4: Tree Housing Chapter 4: Creating Your Design Case Study 5: Hut Earthship Chapter 5: Building It Case Study 6: Green Condo Chapter 6: Designing With Natural Systems Case Study 7: Spiral House Chapter 7: Green Building Options Case Study 8: Tesuque Econest Chapter 8: Choosing Interior Materials--Walls, Windows, and Doors Case Study 9: Orchard House Chapter 9: Choosing Interial Materials--Floors Case Study 10: Sunhawk Chapter 10: Personal Style and Decoration Resource Guide Index Organization: Provides in-depth views of ten properties in Britain and the U.S. built with natural principles, interspersed with ten overviews of key concepts for building natural homes. Each featured property is covered with beautifully-photographed spread, a summary of the natural features, and a floor plan for each of the floors. Natural features covered include: Construction, Materiala, Soft Energy Systems, Heating, Cooling, Water Usage and Landscaping. Possible Uses: Expanding the range of materials and techniques you might consider for green building. Get examples of alternative materials and techniques for building homes. Visualizing how your natural home might look. Advantages: Detailed views of completed homes showing options and how they worked out. Good floor plans showing the layouts of sample homes. Excellent photo-spreads with large, expressive pictures of each house. Real examples in both rural and urban settings. Good references to additional resources. Cautions to avoid critical mistakes. Limitations: Most of the settings are dry or desert areas. For any given option, you would need more detail for the one you picked in order to build it.

Designing Your Natural Home: A Practical Guide

Author: David Pearson
Copyright: 2005 by Gaia Books (imprint of Harper Collins)
Useful Pages: 143
Length of Index: 4 pages

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Case Study 1: Posts Standing
Chapter 1: Design for Natural Living
Case Study 2: Funk Homestead
Chapter 2: Choosing Your Approach
Case Study 3: Springfield Cohousing
Chapter 3: Getting Started
Case Study 4: Tree Housing
Chapter 4: Creating Your Design
Case Study 5: Hut Earthship
Chapter 5: Building It
Case Study 6: Green Condo
Chapter 6: Designing With Natural Systems
Case Study 7: Spiral House
Chapter 7: Green Building Options
Case Study 8: Tesuque Econest
Chapter 8: Choosing Interior Materials--Walls, Windows, and Doors
Case Study 9: Orchard House
Chapter 9: Choosing Interial Materials--Floors
Case Study 10: Sunhawk
Chapter 10: Personal Style and Decoration
Resource Guide
Index

Organization:

Provides in-depth views of ten properties in Britain and the U.S. built with natural principles, interspersed with ten overviews of key concepts for building natural homes. Each featured property is covered with beautifully-photographed spread, a summary of the natural features, and a floor plan for each of the floors. Natural features covered include: Construction, Materiala, Soft Energy Systems, Heating, Cooling, Water Usage and Landscaping.

Possible Uses:

Expanding the range of materials and techniques you might consider for green building.
Get examples of alternative materials and techniques for building homes.
Visualizing how your natural home might look.

Advantages:

Detailed views of completed homes showing options and how they worked out.
Good floor plans showing the layouts of sample homes.
Excellent photo-spreads with large, expressive pictures of each house.
Real examples in both rural and urban settings.
Good references to additional resources.
Cautions to avoid critical mistakes.

Limitations:

Most of the settings are dry or desert areas.
For any given option, you would need more detail for the one you picked in order to build it.