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
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