今年の7月にオープンしたOmega Institute for Holistic Studiesのヨガなどのボディワークやスピリチュアルなワークを研究するための施設、Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL)には、ジョン・トッドさんのEco-Machinesというシステムが組み込まれ、生きている建物として紹介されています。オープンになっている画像は少ないのですが、以下の記事が詳しいです。
" Omega Institute today announced it will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 16, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. to celebrate the Grand Opening of the much anticipated Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL), an award-winning green building designed by Kansas City-based BNIM Architects, renowned for sustainable design.
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The OCSL supplies all of its own energy needs, and its operation is carbon neutral. The self-sustaining building is heated and cooled using geothermal systems, and utilizes photovoltaic power. It will serve as the heart of Omega's ongoing environmental initiatives and includes a greenhouse, an Eco-Machine, constructed wetland, and a classroom which will be open year-round to the public.
The core of the center is a 4,500-square-foot greenhouse containing a water filtration system called the Eco-Machine. This living system uses plants, bacteria, algae, snails, and fungi to recycle Omega's wastewater (approximately 5 million gallons per year) into clean water that is used to restore the aquifer. The Eco-Machine incorporates technology first seen in similar systems known as Living Machines. Dr. John Todd, and his son, Jonathan Todd are the ecological architects for this project. In 2008, Dr. Todd won the First Annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge for his proposal Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia, which lays out a strategy for transforming one and a half million acres of strip-mined lands in Appalachia into a harmonious self-sustaining community.
Dr. Todd will be a keynote at the Grand Opening. Speaking of this milestone, Dr. Todd's son and John Todd Ecological Design President, Jonathan Todd, remarked, "We are honored to be a central part of this historic achievement, and I know my father is particularly happy and proud to see an Eco-Machine system of this scale in North America."
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