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Material ImpactsSpring 2010

Elinor Mossop & Kelli Jordan


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Concept Overview:

Lifestyle changes are important but they need tobe supported by more quantiable aspects, such as

energy use in a home and the embodied energy ofthe built materials.

Changing the layout of a home can potentially shifta users habits, but it is not guaranteed. If successful,lifestyle changes can have a greater reduction in im-pact. However, changes to the materials of the house

are more assured to reduce the impact.


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Preliminary Research:

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Communal House(large kitchen, dining room,

event room, game rooms,

etc.)

Semi-detachedNothing is shared

Co-housingCommunal area

Proposed ideaShared bathroom

and kitchen


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bathroom

bedroom

front

door

back

door

bedroomdining

area

kitchen

living

room

Family A: single mother with child

1 car2 AC wall units1 clothes washer1 clothes dryer

1 refrigerator1dishwasher1 microwave

1 coffee maker1 oven1 stove1 small T.V.

1 large T.V.1 game console

Whats inside:


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Family B: young couple

2 cars1 AC wall units1 clothes washer1 clothes dryer

1 refrigerator1dishwasher1 microwave

1 coffee maker1 oven1 stove1 large T.V.

1 game console

Whats inside:

bedroom

living

room

bathroom

bedroom

front

door

back

door


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Better insulation

Double glaze

windows

Use sustainable or recycled

materials (recycled jeans

or carpets, dont use steel)

Smaller houses and

fewer special-function

rooms

Better insulation

mechanics (electrical,

water heating)

Capture suns heat

(passive - windows)

Convert suns heat into

electricity (active - solar panels)

NYSERDA funds

training for green-collared jobs

I m studying at Hudson Valley

Community College to become

a building analyst.

Ill study new technologicalstandards for innovative

green building programs.

Interest in green building

is driven by consumers

More people are doing

it to save money on their

heating bills

99 homes last year to at least

564 this yearImprove existing structures or

start from scratch

Existing homes are going green, too: 68%

of people surveyed by USA TODAY took

steps this year to make their homes more

said it was "mostly to save money" and

26% "mostly to save the environment."


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Concept 1:Semi-detached with no shared elements

Concept 2:Behaviour inuenced by building layout

Concept 3:Exterior changes

Concept 4:Future studies

Concept Overview:


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Base Case:A family of four each

taking 20 minute showersonce a day will use over

8 million gallons ofwaterover a 50 yeartime period.

20 Minutes

After energy use, vinyl sidinghas the greatest impact ofall other built materials.


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Behavioral Changes:5 minutesIf a family of four

reduces their showers to5 minutes each, they will

use just a little over1 million gallons ofwater overa 50 year

time period.

By taking down theparting wall and creating

one shared bathroom,inhabitants might takeshorter showers out ofcourtesy to theirneighbors.

Sustainable Minds canmodel the effects of abehavioral change but nothow the change occurs.


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The Siding in the Grass:

We suspect that otherexterior treatments mayhave an even greater

reduction in impact, whileproviding benets.

In Sustainable Minds, wood sidingsimpact was onyl marginally lower

than vinyl siding.


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Whatis yoursiding

worth?Over the lifetime of your house,the vinyl siding alone creates 6850 lbs of CO2

That is like watching 2.5 hours of T.V.

a day for 50 years

Ad 1:


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Ad 2:


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What Lies Ahead?


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Future Studies:

The material components of a green wallcould be modeled in Sustainable Mindsbut would not account for some benets

Based on College of Architecture and Urban

Planning, University of Washington

Building

Plastic

Woven Material

Felt

Felt

Plants

Another optiwould be to mo

Fiber Cement S

We speculate that a greewall may add environmenta

benets, such as improvin

air quality and reduction oheating through increaseinsulation of the house

There may also be sociabenets, which cannot bmeasured in Sustainab

Mind

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