[Greenbuilding] Heating?

[RT]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:18:10 -0400, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn  
<info at ecobrooklyn.com> wrote:

> I have a Brooklyn client for whom we are assembling a bunch of shipping
> containers to make an art studio. Three containers on the bottom level  
> and  two on the top level

> minimally insulated,

> he doesn't see the (R!) value in spending lots of money on insulation

My first inclination was to suggest that the "artist" be euthanised by  
non-medical means-- but that would be unkind (to him) and I suspect,  
illegal.

My second inclination was to suggest that the guy be given a kite and be  
told to go self-breed himself off of a tall building but he'd probably  
disregard the suggestion just go and find some other schmoe to assemble  
his carbuncle rather than contemplate the folly of his ways and  
re-evaluate the scheme to come up one that is more Green.

Assuming that the artist's work materials are not susceptible to frost  
damage and that the heating strategy only has to address the matter of  
keeping the artist warm enough so that he/she can function, then perhaps  
the strategy becomes one of making a quickly demountable/portable  
workspace comprised of superinsulated panels that clip either to each  
other for structural integrity or to a demountable/portable frame, say  
like construction scaffolding.

Perhaps the superinsulated panels are made of salvaged rigid insulation  
skinned with sheet metal taken from salvaged refrigerator carcases or  
such-like.  The sheet metal skins are to protect the foamed plast-ecch!  
 from unintended combustion due to careless/irresponsible exposure to  
ignition sources.

If planned well, it's highly likely that the superinsulated workspace  
could be kept warm with the output from a solar collector mounted atop the  
highest shipping container, piped (via insulated hose) to a radiator in  
the workspace.

For summer, maybe a shaded patio open to the breezes, on top of one of the  
shipping containers.

Now that would be a project that a Green builder might want to be involved  
with.

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Rob Tom					AOD257
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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