[Greenbuilding] Eco-Utopia and Stormwater management

[RT]

Huh.

The house in the first image of the link provided by Erin is eerily  
reminiscent of  images #12 to #14 (in link below) of a house that was  
built here by the man known as "the Father of Kanata" who, in the 1960s  
bought 3000 acres of land  ~ 25 kms outside of the nation's capital  and  
set out to build a model community  based on the "garden city" idea of the  
early 20th C. Modernists.

Although he built his home just around 10 years ago,  in looking at the  
images

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/homes/Teron+puts+Kanata+home+sale/9700237/story.html?tab=PHOT

... one could easily be forgiven for thinking that the house was built  
back in the days circa Frank Lloyd Wright's 1930s Johnson Wax building or  
the Hippies "Gooey Architecture" era of the  1960s.

And if you're thinking of slamming the 2-bedroom house as being excessive,  
have a gander at some of the other houses being sold by the same realtor
                      http://christiesrealestate.com/

  ... and then you can have your conniption fit.


PS: The same fellow was head of the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp. for a  
time ( back in the 70s ? )
        Long-time Listers will know CMHC as a source of a wealth of  
building science research & knowledge
           http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca


On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:50:25 -0400, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn  
<info at ecobrooklyn.com> wrote:

> These glass houses may not work so well in places other than temperate  
> zones.
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Erin Rasmussen <erin at trmiles.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027132/this-eco-village-is-an-environmentalists-dream
>>
>>


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Rob Tom ADT1
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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