• DocumentCode
    378733
  • Title

    Demonstration of a nature symbiotic office designed for 100 years use

  • Author

    Nagano, Masanobu

  • Author_Institution
    Kochi Eco-design Council, Japan
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    684
  • Lastpage
    689
  • Abstract
    This report focuses on the moving of an office with 100 staff from city to the mountainside in 1996 in my pursuit of vision realization. In the present situation, it is a very important task and responsibility for mankind to take actions with careful consideration on the environment. In an industrial social system of economic priority, it is said to be in an impossible condition to hope for a sustainable development for the organisms on the earth. At the thought of utilizing the natural power at its maximum and emphasizing the environment of the earth (EcoDesign), I designed and materialized the comfortable wooden office buildings with low energy and low cost, which proved the possibility of life cycle cost. Our new construction was not designed with high technology. Our new value was created with the wisdom reported in a region from ancient times and the easy natural theory
  • Keywords
    design for environment; natural resources; office environment; energy conservation; environment; geothermy; industrial social system; life cycle cost; mountain office; nature symbiotic office; sustainable development; water circulation; wooden buildings; Cities and towns; Costs; Earth; Environmental economics; Industrial economics; Organisms; Power generation economics; Power system economics; Sustainable development; Symbiosis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-1266-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/.2001.992447
  • Filename
    992447