lately TOSD has been a little dormant… I was lucky enough to convince my amazing girlfriend to marry me, so blogging hasn’t exactly been at the center of my focus… but there’s a large, large backlog of topics so stay tuned over the next weeks, I should be posting a lot.
one subject that’s fairly timely- the chain of ecohomes competition just started their online voting process and two good friends of TOSD have a very compelling entry. maybe I’m biased, but my take is that their ability to merge sustainable design into a modern and contextual architecture is significantly higher than the other leaders at this point. they’re also one of two vote leading entries to incorporate agriculture into their design.
I feel very passionately about the benefits of urban and home based agriculture, so much so that you can look for an upcoming second blog devoted to the subject. but I think more importantly than simply suggesting that architecture can be used to grow food is the idea that sustainable design can provide for more than just itself. the majority of entries in the competition and the majority of contemporary sustainable work seems to be focused on sustainably providing for itself in terms of energy, resource and material use. but to begin to see architecture as having the ability to provide a sustainable platform for all facets of our lives is both visionary and inspired.
EDIT: voting has ended, but it’s an interesting selection of work to look at.
