| Maitreya EcoVillage | ||
| An Environmentally Innovative Intentional Community | ||
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| The triplex was an attempt to combine the idealism of natural building with the cost effectiveness of conventional construction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Interactive Site Plan | It is a conventional wood framed structure except that the studs are made of pairs of 2x3's held together with 1x4 gussets on 2x8 floor ceiling plates - thus achieving (probably) R-30 insulation value in the walls. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The wood is 95% FSC certified or recycled. The exterior of the walls were sheathed with certified CDX plywood and shingled with Western Red Cedar shingles protected with generous eves. The interior walls are blueboard with gypsum thinwall plaster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The first floor is
an earthen floor. Earth, sand and chopped straw are troweled smooth, allowed to dry, then saturated with linseed oil and topped off with bee's wax. The linseed oil saturates into a thicknes of half inch which dries into a hard durable surface on which one can place table legs, roll desk chairs and mop up spills. |
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| All the ceramic tile used in the building came from a tile company that would otherwise have thrown it into a dumpster but were instead persuaded to save it on a pallet and give us a call regularly. After a while, we had pallets after pallets of tile to choose from. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tile work
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| The second floor is subfloor visible from above as below. This makes for a very natural wood look at the downstairs ceiling and an unfortunate level of acoustical transparency for those wanting privacy upstairs. It's a trade off. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First Floor
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| All the windows, exterior doors
and cabinets were built on site which is rather unheard of in this day and age of such things coming from toxic, stinky factories on the back of a smoke belching truck from hundreds of miles away. This represents a more decentralized, appropriate scale of economics the environmental significance of which should not be underestimated. |
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Second Floor of Tri-Plex |
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| Many recycled
products were used in the building including lots of wood, interior doors, door hardware, sinks, faucets and bathtubs. |
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| The timelessly beautiful design was arrived at by non-architecturally trained Rob using the seminal architecture book, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, et al. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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