The document discusses sustainable design approaches, comparing traditional Plains Indian tipis and regionally appropriate architecture to typical suburban homes. Tipis used passive solar heating and cooling through natural materials and site placement, while modern homes consume large amounts of energy. The document advocates emulating sustainable approaches like passive solar design, natural materials, recycling, and minimizing energy consumption.

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Making Sense
A Natural Approach To Sustainable Design
Gary Gene Olp, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP!
President!
GGOArchitects, Corp.!
www.ggoarchitects.com!
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So what does a Tipi !
have to do with sustainability?!
Plains Indian Tipi!
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Passive Solar Design
Collected solar energy for warmth - winter!
Cliff above shaded dwellings for cooling - Summer!
Natural materials!
Rainwater collection!
Passive Solar Design
Cliff above provides cut off angle to shade dwellings!
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Builder conceived
paradise
Typical suburban land planning and design
North Texas suburb!
You could
be living
here!
Typical suburban land planning and design
North Texas suburb!
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This is not sustainable!
Typical Suburban
Custom Home
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Debris Hut Survival Shelter
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Regionally appropriate climate design
Lisbon, Portugal!
Regionally appropriate climate design
Lisbon, Portugal!
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Debris Hut Survival Shelter
Built from forest floor
debris
Zero energy consumption
Totally
recyclable
Comfortable from
110 deg. to -20 deg.
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Green house effect
Green house effect
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Shading
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Simple right?
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Summer - Winter sun path
Summer - Winter sun path
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Facts to Consider
Buildings consume 2/3 of all U.S. Electrical generation and contribute over
1/3 of all greenhouse emissions.
Oil companies are not planning to build new refineries because there
aren t enough oil resources or discoveries to justify the investment.
Hubberts curve predicted that U.S. oil production would peak in 1972 - it
did in 1970. The same analytical data predicts that global production will
peak between 2010 & 2015 irrespective of the recent finds in the deep
water of the Gulf of Mexico. Currently we consume two barrels for every
new barrel discovered.
Saving or conserving energy or a valuable resource is
always cheaper and more economical than producing
it.
And Now A Word For The Environment
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Portland Convention Center
Portland, Oregon!
Portland Convention Center
Portland, Oregon!
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A good planet is hard to find!
When you look up into the sky tonight consider this: the earth is really a
spaceship. Our ship is 8,000 miles in diameter, hurtling through space at
a rate of 60,000 mph.
All life and our entire store of natural resources are contained in a narrow
band at the crust only a couple of miles deep, comparatively as thin as a
sheet of paper. This mantle of life is wrapped in a 5 mile thick layer of
atmosphere. On average the life giving topsoil is 6 thick. The Van Allen
belt protects us from solar and other celestial radiation.
Solar energy is our ONLY TRULY RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE and it takes 8
min. 20 sec. to reach us from our nearest star - our SUN!
This fragile pale blue dot is the house we all live in.
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