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Haybox from common household items

Posted on ma 14 januari 2019 in designs • Gewijzigd op 07 oktober 2019 • Tagged with permaculture, urban design, appropriate technology, CEAP, zones and sectors, ethics, attitudinal principles

This is a small design I did to show the different options available for making a haybox at home.

Background

In our household we try to reduce our need for fossil fuels. One way is to prevent cooling of a heated substance by adding insulation. For ourselves we use layers …

Designing a food forest in Nuenen

Posted on ma 07 januari 2019 in designs • Gewijzigd op 15 april 2019 • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, zones and sectors, planning for real, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, hugelculture, compost

Overview map (courtesy of OpenStreetMap) © OpenStreetMap-auteurs. The red area shows where the food forest is located within the grounds of the Weverkeshof.

Background

The Weverkeshof is a city farm in Nuenen. They would like to convert a (small) part of their grounds into a food forest. This page details how …

PASTE survey allotment garden (2018)

Posted on ma 31 december 2018 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, survey, PASTE, garden design, Eindhoven, season: fall

Starting from 2018-09-01, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. This survey lists the different species discovered.

Plants

Alium ? (onion family / uienfamilie)
Amaranthus blitum (purple amaranth / Kleine Majer)
- leafs edible like spinach
Brassica juncea ssp. Juncea (Chinese mustard/ amsoi)
- cultivar King Mustard
- cultivar Red Giant
- cultivar …

Design balcony

Posted on do 27 december 2018 in designs • Tagged with permaculture, urban design, SADIMet, ways of observing, ethics, Holmgren principles

Background

Ilona and Stefan want to limit the view from the neighbors. They would like a nice environment to look out onto from their living room.

Design team

The design was done by:

Arno Peters (permaculture designer)
Ina Heinz (permaculture designer)

Design strategy

We used SADIMet for this design.

Survey …

Design family project in Gunsleben

Posted on vr 28 september 2018 in designs • Tagged with permaculture, building design, SADIMet, kanban, client interview, ways of observing, ethics, dreaming circle, mind map, mapping, zones and sectors, SWOC, PMI, attitudinal principles, planning for real, input output analysis

Map created from satellite image, openstreetmap and provided sketch. Download and open the file in a vector editor like Inkscape to see and play with the different layers.

Design summary

This work is the result of a PDC held in Gunsleben, Germany. The first week was …

Design Arno's company

Posted on di 25 september 2018 in designs • Gewijzigd op 28 augustus 2019 • Tagged with permaculture, general design, CEAP, ways of observing, client interview, ethics, attitudinal principles, Holmgren principles

Background

I currently work for a few customers as a programmer and for a few others as a systems administrator for their Linux systems.

Current situation (2018) is a physical servers at two different locations. One is in a local data center with a optic fiber connection and one is …

Voedselbos op de Weverkeshof

Posted on wo 29 augustus 2018 in publicity • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen

Ontwerp van het voedselbos met de verschillende bedden, paden en bomen. Onderaan de legenda met onder meer een windroos, de schaal en de opkomst en ondergang van de zon op beide zonnewenden (zomer en winter) en op de equinox.

Op de Weverkeshof gaan we een voedselbos maken. We …

Design allotment garden

Posted on za 11 augustus 2018 in designs • Gewijzigd op 25 april 2020 • Tagged with permaculture, garden design, Eindhoven

Design strategy

We used CEAP for this design.

Collect information
Evaluate the information
Apply Permaculture Ethics and Principles
Plan for Action

Note: this design is not quite finished. We have started putting elements into action before having a complete design done.

Collect information

Client interview / 5 W's
- Vision
  - harvest food …

Project Gunsleben - General design - Planning phase

Posted on vr 13 juli 2018 in designs • Gewijzigd op 24 juli 2018 • Tagged with permaculture, dragon dreaming, dragon dreaming planning, Gunsleben, ethics, Holmgren principles, ways to die, dragon dreaming celebrating, abandoned design

This is the place where we analyze and consider alternatives. See the design overview for the big picture.

Note: this design has been abandoned.

Consideration of Alternatives

Ethics

Earth care
- Reduce
  - create small living spaces, easily heated
  - use solar energy where possible
  - limited use of power tools, tractors and other …

Project Gunsleben - General Design - Dreaming phase

Posted on di 10 juli 2018 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, general design, dragon dreaming, dragon dreaming dreaming, Gunsleben, client interview, mapping, ways of observing, forms of capital, flow, history

This is the place we gather information about the project. See the design overview for the big picture.

Loes and Brand are hereafter referred to as the parents.

Map

Map created from satellite image, openstreetmap and provided sketch. Download and open the file in a vector …

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