Many thanks to Polly and John for the tour of the Earthship at Stanmer Park in Brighton, this project was built as a community centre for use by Stanmer Organics, a Soil Association accredited site in Brighton. Earthships are 'green' buildings, which use the planets natural systems to provide all utilities, using the sun's energy and rain to provide heat, power and water. They are buildings that heat and cool themselves, harvest their own water and use plants to treat their sewage. The front of the building incudes a large slanted glass façade to make the most use of the sun at its lowest point in winter, and creates a brilliant warm area for growing plants and vegetables - seen in these images where the tour group stood. The local community growing group Fork and Dig It make the most use of this space during the early months of the year to grow their seedlings for the year ahead. The irrigation of these interior planting beds is irrigated with harvested rainwater and grey water, the excess water is used to flush the toilets, which is then directed to a septic tank on site which has been designed with surrounding cleansing reed beds. The interesting roof structure has been created at an angle to capture all rain water, which is directed into a large roof tray, which filters the water which is then directed and stored in the below tanks, able to hold up to 20,000L of water. Details include an overview of the use of low impact materials in construction, using local, recycled, waste, natural and renewable materials. This included including waste car tyres rammed with local chalk and then layered with insulation bricks to create the walls of the structure. . #sustainbility #sustainablelandscapedesign #stanmerpark #drainagesystem #landcsapearchitecture #landscapes #landscapearchitecturenetwork #landscapedesign
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