2012/12/27

think about permculture


  • 2012.07.31 

There is a keyword used as the basis of this eco-apartment project.
That is a permaculture.


it says, the basic idea of permaculture is
- Consideration of environment.
- Consideration of people
- A fair share
- Traditional rediscovery
- Often observe a natural system and employ it efficiently.
- the fusion of aptitude technology which employed the characteristic of the land efficiently.


According to the designer of "Takashi Hanazono", and Mr. Takahiro Yamada of a bioform environmental design room.
For example.
The ecosystem is built by much animate life, has variety, has many backup functions, has an autoregulatory function, produces it itself, and provides oneself.

An ecosystem performs goods circulation, circulation of water, and reproduction of energy inside oneself.
polluted water is not taken out.

The system of a life our present age has structure which specialized only in the single function too much.
That is especially right in a city.
And "subcontract-ization" of the function is carried out to a convenience store etc., and our lives are maintained barely.
Moreover, there is also no structure of circulation. 
On the other hand, water, energy, and food are carried into the city from the outside, and the city is maintained. (extract from Let's making eco-apart with vegitable garden!)

The nature has no waste and co-existing each other but the human being, ourselves are including the part of the circulation. 
If you leave nature automatically, it will be committed only in the good direction. 
While reconfirming once again the thing natural [ but ] which tends to be forgotten sometimes, I wished to consider city collective housing. 
Moreover, the blog of Mr. Shitara Kiyokazu of NPO permaculture center Japan is also introduced. 

Please read tif you are interested. 


2012/10/17

About heat insulation of a residence and a natural material


  • 2012.07.29


The interior of a room of a greenfingers eco-apartment is supposed to be built with a natural material. 
And thermally insulated.
According to Eco-ya Baobab 's Mr. Tomohira Yamada

In order to live to Eco, a good quality of heat insulation of a house will be necessary.

Becoming strict about heat insulation is related to sick house syndorome which I wrote before.
If there is no interior of a room for a natural material so that indoor airtightness may not be exposed to a chemical substance over a good part and a long period of time, it will be said that it is useless.

We had consultation about interior of a room of being for a natural material had been held also at the major house maker M home in early stages of the apartment project.

The answer which came back is that are a designer's mansion?, there is the recognition.
Most major house makers were not wanting whether to consider whether indoor chemical substance exposure is considered and such recognition. 

The origin of common sense and craftsmanship thinks that it became good study about where it is.

Interior adhering to natural materials, such as a pure cedar plate flooring and a mortar wall.
If the interior of a room is a natural material, insulation efficiency is improved unreservedly.

About a natural material and heat insulation, we publish again.

Nobuaki

2012/10/01

Home and Garden


  • 2012.09.15

We have just been enjoying to work out a detailed plan of the garden of an eco-apartment,
Eco-ya BAOBAB architectural design laboratory These Mr. Tomohira Yamada's talks are a home and a garden.
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Now, it is today's theme, home and garden.


the small large thing of the garden -- the relation between not right or wrong but a home and a garden
"ecolo"  I think if touch can tell.


First of all, about planting.

A large role is played to control of solar radiation cover or the rise in heat of the ground.

In order to interrupt the afternoon sun of the west side, planting a deciduous tree is known well, but as a matter of fact, care is serious and tends to be kept at arm's length.

But there is no tree to which a leaf does not fall.


It a tree is not only cool, but delights eyes and the heart.
I think if tree is chosen in view of the conditions of a site, the neighborhood, etc.

Moreover, I recommend you to arrange green around a house. 
A parking lot is made into green parking, or a flower bed is prepared. 
If green can be especially planted in the north side, it will be useful to put in fresh air(※1) in a summer. 

It seems that what does not break down an ecosystem from the first is good as for the kind of the tree to plant and flower. 

The beginning is artificial although the report which threatens an ecosystem greatly has a well effective alien species. 
Although rain also looks at the construction which allots grass and moss of the Foreign species grown at least in a roof, the trial in a native species is expected. 
Don't you think that using above all the exterior building materials of an antiseptic full [ in carrying out thing use ] of trees which cannot be welcomed, such as an insecticide and manure, wants to avoid? 


Next, it is a garden as a cycle of circulation of a life. 
It can use for performing use of rain water, purification of drainage from the household, etc. 
It can also make it easy for processing of a kitchen garbage to also use compost etc., to get an earthworm and a microbe to help it, and to return it to the ground. 
In the case of earthworm compost, please take into consideration a little isolation with a kitchen garden.

Based on the ground made with compost, circulation appears in a kitchen garden, a kitchen garden, etc.
And a green fence etc. are prepared, 
it is performed frequently these days that I boil an ivy plant and also have you play a role in solar radiation cover. 
A sponge gourd, a balsam pear, etc. had much report of crops boast this summer also. 

Vegetables are made from a kitchen garbage with the ground which oneself made. 
It can practice space-saving. 
here is also actually much report from the balcony of an apartment. 

The relation by a living thing is an origin place also in character building. 
Anyway, I think that a plant and a microbe may be sufficient not only as virtual knowledge but coming into contact with and it. 
if the hand is put in, they will be responding to it so that we can feel small circulation,nature and the earth and so on. 

Because management requires much care in the garden ... I hear talk well. 
Because it apply with so much labor, 
How about enjoying oneself?

fresh air(※1)
In the case of planned ventilation or a passive design, I plan how an air intake is obtained. 
Of course, although it is a premise to have taken airtightness, it is designed where new air is obtained from. 

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The designer who has considered the garden this much may be rare. 
They are such things as a passive design.

An architectural design and the production of the garden are inseparable relations. 
The production of a place may be able to say whether it builds at "what kind of place" as the production of the garden. 

Appropriate cost starts managing fallen-leaves arboreal vegetation to the extent that the afternoon sun of the window of the second floor is interrupted. 
Considering "living all the time", it is troubled by the afternoon sun, and if the electric bill of the part is used, fallen-leaves arboreal vegetation will be planted. 
Then, planting contributes to warming control of the area and produces oxygen. 
The branch selected if there was a vegitable garden, fallen leaves were made into the manure and there was a wood stove is made to fuel.
Are various things except the money which maintenance management takes "buying electricity" becoming possible?

Moreover, 100% of green is also possible, the green parking can cut down the cost of the construction costs of a parking lot sharply. (if you understand that some grounds may be carried into getting on and off of a car by in the car) 

Also in the production of the garden using the native species which does not break down an ecosystem, it tends to seem that only the Japanese style garden can be made.
It can make also in the atmosphere of the European style depending on how to also make a native species.
I also regard an foreign species as the ability of the original garden to be built with those combination since the appreciation kind without ability of reproduction is also made by improvement of a species.

About compost,  before I have been studied aversion fermentation, good mind fermentation, etc by earthworm compost using a dung worm.
How about practicing reasonable by the method which suited the life style, since there are various methods according to a place or a use? 

The garden of a greenfingers eco-apartment is also designed and goes by a concept called eco and organic. 
Directly touch and walks for the ground or a plant, even occasionally fights for them. 
I think that I will make it such a garden.


I know it's worth waiting! 

I am sorry that some afterwords become long. 


2012/09/28

Consideration about sick house syndrome


  • 2012.07.27



There were many things considered when building and managing an apartment and going.
When we let the place where people live, the room could not be for truly not considering the problem about safety, like sick house syndrome.
A duty of enforced ventilation is imposed upon the present residence for 24 hours.
It is because condition, such as sick house syndrome and a chemical sensitivity, may be caused if it does not ventilate compulsorily.
And the adhesives and new synthetic building materials in which the chemical substance is used for wallpaper or the plywood for construction are the cause.
Now, the chemical substance regulated has only several kinds.
It is because the construction itself may become impossible if all are regulated.
Then, it is 24-hour enforced ventilation.

The present age is surrounded by various chemical substances, such as radiation of subject, the housebuilding syndrome of exhaust gas or an office, and these days, and lives only on living ordinarily.
However it may take care, some chemical substances will be taken into the inside of the body, and it will live.
It will be exposed to a chemical substance. Furthermore, is it OK in the house we went home?


The original reason why we ask Eco-ya BAOBAB to build our apartment is
their research and practice is deep about sickhouse-syndorome.
They study how to realize a really safety house, also directed in the production of a house for a chemical sensitivity person.

If there may be few people who are conscious of whether it is safety to a chemical substance in letting an apartment,
When if our rent was considered, sick house syndrome became an item which must be considered.

About sick house syndorome (jump to Wikipedia)


Nobuaki

2012/09/19

Hakogi-Sennenya(the most old private house in Japan)

  • 2012.07.24


It is the Hakogi Sennen house which it sees by all means and was extorted after deciding that an apartment was built by wooden.

It is called the oldest private house in Japan.
Although it seems that presumption is also difficult in about what time it was built, it is supposed that it may go back from a construction method etc. till the 14th century time.



It had been moved from original place,but  we can still see it.


a ground plan

Enter Omoya(main wing of the house), there is a stable on the right.
Omote(the room with fire place), the kitchen, the shed are on the left.
Hanare(a cottage)has a 8jyo-room(Japanese way of measuring a room with number of a tatami. a tatami=1jyo=app191x99.5cm)with a tokonoma(an alcove), a 6jyou-room with Shoin(a study room) and each rooms  are surrounded with Engawa(it is like open corridor) .

The shed has loads of old farming machines and tools in a line.
they have something nostalgic touch.

Inside the Omoya is a bit darker, Andon(an oil lampstand) is a dimly lighted from the kitchen.

Although remodeled now, since my parents' home was also Ta-noji-shape and same type of farmers house,
I became the feeling which returned to the house of childhood. 
I felt that the custom of the Japanese of living with all families was suited well for such room arrangement. 
Since it was such room arrangement, did it become such a custom? 
But it was thought fully that Japanese people had the culture of sharing many things mutually from ancient times.


The picture above is a board of a open corridor at the Hanare.
Is it a Japan cedar? In what about year has it passed? 
if a real pure tree passed ages, it will become fabulous.


Although fittings were aging too, it has opened and closed perfectly. 

a view from Hanare.

the kichen at the Omoya.

Niwa/Doma(an earth floor)at the Omoya 

a view from the Omote

the flooring at the Doma


a view from the Hanare(6jyo-room)



as overall comment, it is cold truly in winter -- it is likely to receive and seems to be cool in summer.
It looks we are able to lives there(without air conditioning).
It was the touch to say.

Although there was also a poster called the ban on a nap, it is the comfort which wants to come to take a nap.

I thought that it would completely be good as a house even now if heat insulation is also solid in such atmosphere.
it is -- it was .

2012/09/14

Hanazono-so -- eco-apartment with vegitable garden in the city--


  • 2012.07.22



Hanazono-so, the apartment is located at Adachi-ku, Tokyo.
When the plan of an eco-apartment was begun, we went to see them at the very beginning.

We didn't have an appointment, we were trying to make it with Mr.Hirata, the owner of Hanazono-so,
but he didn't have a time in that day.
So we expected to watch the building only.
Fortunately,The father of Mr. Hirata found us, then talked with us really kindly.

If it is called Hanazono-so, it will be the forerunner existence of an eco-apartment with a private vegetable garden.
That is why we are also referring to it very much.
The father of Mr. Hirata, he talked about the importance of using woods of local supply and local consumption, how to make the good community by using a vegetable garden, ecology and so on.....  we studied so many things from him.

Situation of the apartment in Japan now, top priority is to increase number of households, and to reach lower construction costs. Most of landlords believe that makes more profit .
As a result, the situation of an apartment is they supply less rooms for family in  a town or a city.
If family needs a wider place to live, they have to move to countryside.

steel rods, concretes, asphalt, air-conditioner exterior units.
It is full of the element which causes a heat island to a town.

Is such a town cozy to live on?


The apartment which kayagreen X Eco-ya baobab proposes the collective housing which use less energy but mostly controls a heat island and it can live with a family or sharing two person in the town.
It carries out  joy of growing vegetables at your own garden in the town too.


If such an apartment is made in large numbers around a station, don't you think that it is great?
The apartment project was started by such thought.


by Nobuaki

2012/09/13

greenfingers eco-apartment project finally starts!

2012.07.17



The eco-apartment project with a kitchen garden which kayagreen sends to you.
It began to move still more.
Although it is still a stage of a plan view now, it is a healthy apartment plan for Eco who took in the passive design about interior using lots of Japan cedar from Hyogo(our local).
A collaborative project with Eco-Ya-baobab.
It is cool in summer, warm in winter and is an energy-saving eco-apartment which hardly requires the electric bill of air conditioning.



We slowly reveal details and goes.

by Nobuaki



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Main  feature of greenfingers eco-apartment 

1. Use local woods, which realizes local supply and local consumption

2. Proposal  a passive design which means It does not depends Air conditioning more than needed

3. Completely free from sick house syndrome, there are full of delicious air, totally healthy,safety  environments.

4. Planning full of green such as a green parking, home vegetable garden, a common space will be mini-agroforestry.

5. The apartment has  7 households. Each household has 2 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a toilet, a balcony and of course a vegitable garden in front of an apartment.