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Sustainable Organic Farm & Educational Centre

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Front Entry View

Front Entry View

Sustainable Organic Farm

Design description

2009

Purpose

The Farm Buildings have been designed to accommodate a family and staff, as well as occasional guests. It has been designed to provide a working example of a high performance, low embodied energy building which could easily be replicated on a larger or smaller scale.

Cross-section at Round Centre

Cross-section at Round Centre

Side Elevation

Side Elevation

Design

Main House

Access to the houses is from the Northern corner of the land. A road lined with native new-plant woodland & fruit trees leads south from the bottom of Albert Street and then curves east, along the top most west/east ridge to a crossroads centered within a large residential garden & pond. An west/east foot path track provides access to the house buildings as well as the east plots.

The house has been designed on an east-west axis to maximize passive solar gain. The house is a timber-framed or recycled steel building with a sedum/ herb roof.

Barn

The Barn is located near the house on the top ridge, central to the land, and is constructed mainly of timber and strawbale infill.

Educational Learning Centre/Storage Garage

The Centre/Garage is located in the northwest quadrant and is constructed mainly of timber and hemp/strawbale infill.

Services

There are water, sewage & electrical services accessible at the entry to the site, at the bottom of Albert Street. These services will be utilized as needed on the site.

Electricity

Electricity will mainly be supplied to the buildings from onsite solar panels, wind turbines & possibly micro-hydro from the nearby Beaver River.

Residential town hydro access to the site may be initially utilized to supplement this supply as well as selling back power to the town through this source.

Ground Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Materials

The structure is either a roundwood timber-frame or recycled steel structure using local timber from the Site and/or nearby properties. The external walls of the dwellings are hemp/strawbale on a stabilized earthbag stem wall or concrete mix foundation. The floor is of FSC wood or rammed earth that will provide a large thermal mass which will serve to regulate the internal temperature conditions. The loading on the roof will be carried by trussed rafters or recycled steel. The roof will be insulated using a combination of solid and loose hemp fibre or blown cellulose insulation.

Materials are dependant on approval by Ontario Building Code regulations.

Farm Buildings Construction

Design

The House has been designed using a modular scheme which allows for a high degree of flexibility in the design of the individual dome units whilst specifying a common approach to the construction. The intention is to create a design that can be replicated easily and that is simple to construct.

Element

Material

Reason

Role

Source

Foundations

Concrete (Mix with pumice, flyash, lime…..)

Hempcrete

EarthBag

Recycled Masonry

Environment

Environment

Natural

Recycled

Structural

Structural

Structural

Structural

Local/Ontario

Local/Ontario

From site/local

Recycled/Ontario

Floors

Compressed/Rammed Earth

Wood

Adobe Brick

Concrete (Mix…hemp)

Natural

Natural

Natural

Finish

Finish

Finish

Insulative

From site/local

From site/local

Local

Local/Ontario

Walls

Timber, wood frame

Recycled Steel

Earth Bag

Strawbale

Plaster – Earth, lime

Rammed Earth

Earth bag

Recycled Denim

Hemp

Sheep wool

Cob

Eco-drywall

Natural

Natural

Recycled

Natural

Natural

Natural

Natural

Natural

Recycled

Natural

Natural

Natural

Structural

Structural

Structural

Skin

Skin

Skin

Skin

Insulation

Insulation

Insulation

Interior

Eco-drywall

Local

Recycled/Ontario

From site/local

Local

Ontario

From site/local

From site/local

USA

UK

Local

From site/local

USA

Windows Skylights

Double Glazing

Solartube

EFT

Recycled

Manufactured

Manufactured

Natural Lighting

Natural Lighting

Natural Lighting

Recycled/Ontario

USA

UK

Roof

Metal geodesic frame

Trussed joists

Plasterboard

Vapour barrier

Hemp Insulation

Green plywood

Wood boarding

Butyl Membrane

Soil [Green Roof]

Sedum/ Herb [Plants]

Recycled

Manufactured

Natural

Manufactured

Natural

Natural

Recycled/Nat.

Manufactured

From Site

From Seed

Structural

Structural

Skin

Membrane

Insulation

Finish

Structural

Membrane

Environmental

Environmental

USA

Ontario

UK

USA

Recycled/Ontario

Local

Local

Element

Material

Reason

Role

Source

Mechanical

Composting Toilets

Radiant Floor Heating

Solar Hot water heating

Wetland grey & blackwater waste management

Rainwater collection

Biomass heating stoves (per room)

Masonry Fireplace

Electrical

Building Biology principles of installation

Biogeometry EMF protection

Low energy/high efficiency bulbs

Candles

Alternative Energy Systems

Geothermal

Solar

Wind

[Micro-hydro]

Construction

The foundations will be made from a concrete mix of possibly hemp/limecrete with high flyash and/or pumice stone as well as possibly using recycled masonry (subject to building regulations approval).

The main structure will either be recycled steel or timber posts which will sit on pad foundations. They will support recycled steel or timber beams which will in turn support the roof. The floor will be insulated with hempcrete and above that will either be rammed earth or FSC wood. The external walls will be straw bale with earth plaster on the inside and lime plaster on the outside. The internal walls & finishes will be earth plaster, cob, eco-drywall with recycled denim, hemp or sheeps wool.

The roof will be supported either with recycled steel or trussed joists. These may be lightweight timber I-section beams made from recycled woodchips or local lumber. A possibility is to construct them on site using local wood from on near the site. This may eliminate the need for a large section timber roof structure. The roof will be insulated with hemp fibre or blown cellulose insulation and boarded with local or FSC wood planks or lined with [plasterboard to provide a fire retardant layer]. An EPDM membrane will provide a waterproof layer for the 70mm deep sedum/ herb roof.

Glazing will be double or triple depending on aspect. Windows and doors will be

either of softwood (FSC), recyled or local hardwood depending on their aspect.

Reversibility

The building is reversible insofar as the site could be restored to its former condition

with relative ease. After dismantling the structure the small masonry elements could

be dug up and removed. The concrete slab would need breaking up and removing

from the site. There would need to be some minor earthworks to return the site to its

previous incline.

Passive Solar Design

The Farm Buildings have been designed to maximize passive solar gain. The southern glazing

will capture the sun’s heat and this will then be stored in the massive floor.

Active Solar Design

The roof of the buildings will also incorporate solar water panels. This will be used to heat water for domestic use during the summer. Solar Water heating is technologically simple and works excellently to heat water in the summer. Water Accumulators will store this solar heat. We plan to be able to harvest all of the building’s hot water needs from the sun for 6 months of the year from the sun.

Ventilation and Infiltration

The buildings will be designed to minimize infiltration. The main entrances will be designed as airlocks.

Ventilation is provided in all of the ‘living’ rooms. In most cases this will take the form of

openable windows and trickle ventilation.

Natural lighting

All of the rooms have been designed to be lit under ordinary daylight conditions. Solartube ceiling lights will be added to supplement lighting into the rear hill side of the rooms as needed. Geodesic skylights will also be utilized in various feature areas.

Space/ Water Heating

The buildings will be designed to be super-insulated and thus require minimum heating. Heating will be provided by means of under-floor, radiant heating. This will be sourced from a large super-insulated water tank.

Heating Fuel

Fuel for heating will be sourced from a variety of different methods. Biomass stoves will be located in rooms with highest uses. A large central masonry fireplace with a significant thermal mass container will be utilized for the main rooms.

Oval Strawbale house

Friday, February 5th, 2010
Entry detail

Entry detail

Oval Strawbale House - GF Plan

Oval Strawbale House - GF Plan

Here is the ground floor plan of a 2 storey, 2000 SF, OVAL STRAWBALE HOUSE that  started construction April 2009! We have been so inspired by the gentleness and awareness of our client who is studying Reiki & Permaculture. The curved shape grew out of our many design conversations together and also creates an extremely high vibrational energy with this simple plan shape. Using my special Biogeometry BG3 pendulum, I am able to test vaiours levels of design to continuously enhance & balance the quality of energy in each room. This building will be entirely non-toxic with 95% all natural, building materials. A combination timber post interior with balloon wood frame strawbale wall is our main construction system.
Oval Strawbale House - Elevation

Oval Strawbale House - Elevation

Oval Strawbale House - Detail at 2nd Floor window

Oval Strawbale House - Detail at 2nd Floor window

Strawbale walls have a unique vapour permeability that allows minute water vapours to pass through the unique porous crystalline structure of the plaster skin and can have anywhere from .10 to .50 ACH (air exchanges per hour) (with no mechanical assistance/technology). Strawbale walls don’t actually ‘breathe’ which is a common myth, rather they “respire” which favourably impacts on the indoor humidity and which in turn provides comfort by adding/removing moisture in the winter/summer as needed.

This creates an extremely healthy living space and air environment that surpasses, in my opinion, any standard, stick frame home. Also, a typical brick/wood stud 2×4 wall usually has less than an R20 insulation whereas strawbale walls have a continuous monolithic insulation of a R30 to R40 value. And, the thick plaster on the inside of straw bale walls acts as a thermal mass and has been shown to play a significant role in stabilizing indoor temperatures. A strawbale house is simply a smarter house!

Oval Strawbale House - Foundation Prep

Oval Strawbale House - Foundation Prep

Plotting the geopathic earth energy lines

Plotting the geopathic earth energy lines

Geopathic earth energy lines - Hartman (yellow) and Curry (Red) lines

Geopathic earth energy lines dowsed and located – Hartman (yellow) and Curry (Red) lines

Foundation formwork starting

Foundation formwork starting

Poured Concrete Foundation with Insulation

Poured Concrete Foundation with Insulation

Wood sill plate base for strawbales

Wood sill plate base for strawbales

16' long Larsen Trusses delivered to site

16' long Larsen Trusses delivered to site

Framing started (larsen trusses on right)

Framing started (larsen trusses upright on the left)

Round log posts & timber beam for interior only

Round log posts & timber beam for interior only

Framing at 2nd floor

Framing at 2nd floor

2nd Floor Window Framing

Larsent posts base at corner

Larsent posts base at corner

Wood Framing

Ballon Wood Framing

All finishes will be natural with ‘0′ VOC’s (volatile organic compounds). We are looking at reclaimed timber flooring, papercrete countertops, milk paint stains as well as milling wood from directly from the site.

As the site has a great supply of wood and our client would like to use some of the maple, cherry, ash and ceder wood in his house. We visited the site together before any clear cutting was done for the building site and talked with the trees to let them know they will be needed in the house. This was a tremendous experience for both of us that I wrote a lot about in my blog here….

The house will also have radiant heating in the floors, a tankless water heater, and a masonry heater fireplace as the main heat source with propane back-up as needed.

  • Oval Strawbale House - Exterior plaster started Oval Strawbale House – Exterior plaster started
  • Exterior plaster

    Exterior plaster

    Long view of house from driveway

    Front of Oval House

    Front of Oval Strawbale House

    Sustainable builder, Ben Polley of Harvest Homes is a leader in the field of natural strawbale construction. His depth and breadth of experience is absolutely wonderful to work with. We highly recommend him for any projects. He works in the Guelph/Kitchener-Waterloo, Grey-Bruce, and Orillia-Muskoka area. From these three locations, they service projects north to Lions Head and Huntsville, east to Highway 400 and most areas south-west within a one to two hour distance from Guelph. In my opinion, there are very few Natual Builders as highly qualified as Ben is.  Please contact me if you want names of green, strawbale contractors in other areas of Ontario as well or visit my website for more detailed info here….

    This is what Ben has to say about working together on this project;

    “I really appreciate your manner of expressing the values important to you and expressing also the defense of things you imparted into the plan on [your client's] , behalf all the while leaving it open to [him] to consider, weigh and decide or defer as necessary. I am very much looking forward to this and future projects working alongside you!”

    HEALING THROUGH VIBRATIONAL DOWSING & RESONANCE: New Methods for Human Beings, Buildings, & the Earth

    Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
    Dr. Robert Gilbert

    Dr. Robert Gilbert

    I recently took a course with the above title, with Dr. Robert Gilbert.  Here is Robert’s Bio. from his website;

    Dr. Robert J. Gilbert has a multi-faceted background in both spiritual and scientific studies. He is a former U.S. Marine Corps Instructor in Nuclear-Biological-Chemical Warfare Survival; since leaving the service in 1985 he has conducted independent research into the Geometric basis of modern science and new technologies. Dr. Gilbert is also a Rosicrucian with more than 20 years of experience in Sacred Geometry and its hidden uses by the world’s great spiritual traditions. His non-sectarian approach is inclusive of individuals from all spiritual traditions. Dr. Gilbert holds a Ph.D. in International Studies and is a published academic author in that field, contributing to the first academic textbook in the new field of Transformational Politics.

    In 1997 Dr. Gilbert began for the first time to teach publicly the results of his two decades of intensive research. Today he teaches both publicly and privately in Asheville, NC. Dr. Gilbert also offers a small number of his VESICA series of special seminars throughout the United States every year. He is currently completing his first book 7 Keys to Creation: Sacred Geometry and the Patterns of Life.

    The course was FANTASTIC!  Robert is truly a pioneer in researching energy balancing, healing & protection methods for human beings as well as for buildings.  He has recently been involved in helping to develop several new products for this using vibrational dowsing principles.  Based on the preliminary foundational science of Biogeometry, Robert’s work develops this with another level working with the 12 bands of the colour spectrum.  Here is a small sampling of what I learned in the course from the syllabus;

    • The “Life Energy Spectrum”: A Master Key to Holistic Healing
    • The Cutting edge of Detox Protocols for restoring health even in “terminal” cases (including both Medical and Holistic protocols)
    • Critical Differences between Electro-Magnetic and Life energies (including how some Electro-magnetic healing devices harm the human energy field)
    • Keys to Energy Balancing entire cities (with examples from completed projects in 6 U.S. cities plus European projects)
    • Dowsing methods to apply Light and Color within energy meridians & centers
    • New Modular system to Test and Apply needed Energy Qualities (including many currently unknown even to advanced Dowsers and nergy Healers)
    • Essential Principles and Methods for Healing the Earth
    • Earth Energy Discoveries from Europe (including the critical Resonances needed in addition to the Atmospheric ‘Schumann Resonance’)
    • Using precise Minerals as “anchors” for vibrational information on the physical plane
    • The Critical Difference between Vibrational and Mental Dowsing (and how to combine them into a more powerful system)
    • Transmitting Holographic Vibrational Patterns with Light

    All I can say after spending a couple of days with Robert -

    WOW!!!

    Egyptian Architect, Dr. Ibrahim Karim dowsing with a vibrational pendulum

    Egyptian Architect, Dr. Ibrahim Karim dowsing with a vibrational pendulum

    So……what is VIBRATIONAL DOWSING you ask?

    There are 3 types of dowsing.  Mental, Sensitization and Physical or VIBRATIONAL.

    Mental dowsing is the more commonly understood form of dowsing where people hold a pendulum in their hands and asking a simple yes or no question, the pendulum with move in one direction or another.    It is a form of reverse self-hypnosis that breaks through the conscious mind to get answers out of the subconscious mind or even sometimes the universal or collective stream of thought.  Mental dowsing is the hardest to teach as it is difficult to quiet the mind and let go of any attachment to the outcome, which can influence the end result.  You can learn it quickly, but it takes years to really do it well and with any consistent accuracy.

    Sensitization dowsing is a method that sort of falls in-between mental and vibrational dowsing.  Some people have a gift in that their entire body is high attuned or ’sensitive’ and they can feel a variety of subtle energies with their physical body or their hands.  This is not the best way to approach energy quality management as often people have no idea how to distinguish if what they are ‘picking up’ is a toxic form of energy or not.

    Vibrational dowsing is a method that developed from the work of the French Radiesthesiasts. Radiesthesia is a term coined by Balzac and Chaumer, two scientists who developed a high sophisticated pendulum and science to be able to measure subtle energetic qualities.  Of the three forms of dowsing, Radiesthesia is the easiest to learn.  It is like a simple biofeedback tool, using your own body as an energetic vibrational link to test varieous energies.  The more you learn how to work with it, the better you become attuned to these subtler energies and you become more able to distinguish the beneficial energies from any toxic energies – in the human body or on the land or in buildings.

    Tuning Forks - When you tap one, the other one begins to ring as it is in RESONANCE with the other

    Tuning Forks - When you tap one, the other one begins to ring as it is in RESONANCE with the other

    And finally, what is RESONANCE - you ask again?

    Resonance is the aspect of when one sound or vibrational frequency is in harmony with another.  Here are a few ‘technical’ definitions;

    • a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system
    • Acoustic resonance is the tendency of an acoustic system to absorb more energy when the frequency of its oscillations matches the system’s natural frequency of vibration (its resonance frequency) than it does at other frequencies.
    • rapport: a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people

    Here is a description of RESONANCE from Dr. Ibrahim Karim’s website; www.biogeometry.org;

    Where vibrations are, resonance can happen. The encyclopaedia gives: “relatively large selective response of an object or a system that vibrates in step or phase, with an externally applied oscillatory force.” Resonance was first investigated in acoustical systems such as musical instruments and the human voice. Mechanical resonance, such as that produced in bridges by wind or by marching soldiers. Somewhat analogous resonance exists on the nuclear scale. This occurs when atoms or their nuclei respond to the application of various magnetic fields by emitting or absorbing electromagnetic radiation of radio and microwave frequencies. Resonance in electrical systems makes it possible for certaincommunication devices to accept signals of certain frequencies while rejecting others.

    On a separate page, you find a summary of what Ibrahim Karim told during a seminar about resonance. The story about “The Caveman” given by him is a nice illustration of resonance.

    An interesting book (in Dutch) about resonance in nature is that of Hans Andeweg. It covers resonance in a broad sense and related subjects.

    Resonance can occur between different types of vibrations such as between colour and sound. Colour is an electromagnetic vibration that can transfer energy in a vacuum, without a medium. Sound waves (compressional waves) are much slower than light waves.