Designing our impact on the land
Where you do something is as critical to the outcome as what you do there.
Always consider four elements of the habitat or what scientists call "inorganic conditions" of existence.
W E A L or weal, the acronym and root word for wealth.
Watershed
Know where the sun is in relation to your plan:
Wind as a source of useful (electrical or mechanical ) energy?
Landscape: is it natural or is it artificial?
William Cullen Bryant's
home has several features to enhance its southern exposure, in the Berkshires.
Acquiring a balance in artifice is the design elements, features, fabric and integrity of this and any structure on the land.
River Basin is a term we will use to integrate or bring together the above elements of the habitat and the community.
Connecticut River Valley actually divides Vermont from New Hampshire -- as a boundary-- but in the eyes of artists here and of George Perkins Marsh it was an element in the landscape that brought the New England states through which it runs together into a watershed of common interests among Vermont, New Hampshire. Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
Shoreline considerations:
Surfers Paradise, Australia.
Sea level and tidal changes
The consequences of development along the shore, adversely affected this underwater coral:
integrity discussed | value discussed | ecological design principles | living well
