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    Armadillo and Onion Inspired Sleep-out Design Brief: Sustainable Architecture.
    Armadillo and Onion Inspired Sleep-out Design Brief: Sustainable Architecture.
    Armadillo and Onion Inspired Sleep-out Design Brief: Sustainable Architecture.
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    Armadillo and Onion Inspired Sleep-out Design Brief: Sustainable Architecture.

    By William Van Zyl

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    OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY:

    Who will read this book?

    Adults, teachers, tertiary and secondary school students (15-year-olds and older).

    What is covered in this book?

    Sustainable architectural design, including a design brief for a sleep-out. This book contains some guidelines and hints for solving the ARMADILLO AND ONION INSPIRED SLEEPOUT DESIGN BRIEF.

    Situation: You are an architect who loves designing sleep-outs.  You recently became interested in sustainable architecture and biomimetics.  You have decided to investigate, explore, and research sustainable architectural practice.  You intend to implement the new knowledge, new skills, and new strategies, which you have learned into your sleep-out design brief.

    Brief: Design and develop a sustainable solution for a new sleep-out at the back of your section or anywhere in the world. Implement some biomimetic ideas and principles to inform your design decisions and design ideas. Use the armadillo and onion as biomimetic inspiration

    What is the focus of this book?

    The focus is on developing sustainable architectural techniques, sustainability practice and in-depth exploration of sustainable features and functions.  YouTube tutorials are available for the different areas covered in this resource. See the YouTube Channel of the author for details (William Van Zyl's YouTube Channel). The videos touch on Research, Climate and Weather, Geolocation, Shadows and Shading, Passive Solar, Ideation, Freehand Sketching, Sketch-up Modelling, Biomimetics, and Freehand Sketching, and more.

    Word count: 5101

    Pages: Total of 45 pages with many images, sketches and links included.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive House Publishing
    Release dateSep 5, 2018
    ISBN9780473454388
    Armadillo and Onion Inspired Sleep-out Design Brief: Sustainable Architecture.
    Author

    William Van Zyl

    The author had an interesting and unique childhood. Not travelling abroad - as you would expect - but venturing into the fields, bushes, tools sheds and mysterious underground tunnels around his neighbourhood. His happy place was - and still is - tinkering with ideas, science, and new possibilities. Many times while cycling he will get new ideas; he brings the unexpected, the unique, the creative in a flurry on a page or in a sketch. To this day he dreams of vicious wars and sophisticated weaponry in an innocent child's scout cave. He loves diagrams, timelines, cross sections, sketches, and details of sinister and hidden concepts and ideas; always looking for a new mystery to decode and to encode. He investigates and explores extravagant thoughts which he includes in children's books, stories and articles; he loves to include philosopher’s perspectives, articles,  intriguing stories, and poetry in his writing. Academic and research work are also his forte. He always offers a simple but practical explanation within an engaging context. Not your ordinary thinker! A lifelong scholar and teacher. 

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      Armadillo and Onion Inspired Sleep-out Design Brief: Sustainable Architecture.

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      Five House Publishing – New Zealand

      First Publishing - 2016 (Edited 2018).

      Second Publishing – 2018

      ISBN 978-0473-45438-8 epub

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      https://fivehousepublishing.com/

      OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY:

      Who will read this book?

      Adults, teachers, tertiary and secondary school students (15-year-olds and older).

      What is covered in this book?

      Sustainable architectural design, including a design brief for a sleep-out. This book contains some guidelines and hints for solving the ARMADILLO AND ONION INSPIRED SLEEPOUT DESIGN BRIEF.

      Situation: You are an architect who loves designing sleep-outs.  You recently became interested in sustainable architecture and biomimetics.  You have decided to investigate, explore, and research sustainable architectural practice.  You intend to implement the new knowledge, new skills, and new strategies, which you have learned into your sleep-out design brief.

      Brief: Design and develop a sustainable solution for a new sleep-out at the back of your section or anywhere in the world. Implement some biomimetic ideas and principles to inform your design decisions and design ideas. Use the armadillo and onion as biomimetic inspiration

      What is the focus of this book?

      The focus is on developing sustainable architectural techniques, sustainability practice and in-depth exploration of sustainable features and functions.  YouTube tutorials are

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