The Fundamentals of Integrating “the commons”: Application as community tissue or urban implant

Robert J. Koester

Renewable Energy, 1994, vol. 5, issue 5, 1015-1020

Abstract: Clarifying the means by which we define and shape the commons, can become the platform from which we can seek to achieve community-scale integration in service to principles of sustainability. This paper presents the formulation of energy-related environmental variables — sun, light, wind and water — in “envelope form” for purposes of modeling alternative integrative patternings of communities as “tissue on the land”. Such modeling yields prototype designs of urban districts, urban blocks and/or individual buildings whose designs capitalize on passive energy manipulation as a “first order” response, thus structuring strategies for the integration of efficient “second order” metabolic systems which together provide the technical base for energy-related resource management.

Keywords: Sustainability; commons; armature; envelope; tissue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(94)90128-7

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