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Both the cost and ecological impact of buildings and other built environments can often be substantially reduced by reducing their resource usage. The patterns in this category provide ways to reduce usage of resources such as land, raw materials and energy.
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Supporting Patterns | An appropriately positioned and angled roof can make for the ideal surface for solar collectors. |
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 | Reducing pollution and other negative impacts of motorized transportation, as well as improved health and interaction between people can all be achieved through increased use of the bicycle for transportation.
Design bike paths and bike lanes that are safely separated from motorized traffic. Ideally these should also be some distance from roads to reduce noise and pollution that ... |
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 | The key to more efficient land use is to create higher density buildings without compromising the other human needs and aspirations that we seek to fulfill with our buildings |
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 | The amount of building materials consumed and heating/cooling cost can be minimized by minimizing the exterior surface area of a building. Since a sphere is the shape that encloses the most volume for a given surface area, the closer a building's form is a sphere, the smaller its surface area will be. |
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| A building's energy consumption can be significantly reduced by using the forces of nature to cool and heat the building. These patterns describe ways in which this can be accomplished. |
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| Reducing urban sprawl (also referred to as "suburban sprawl") can reduce resource usage in many ways. |
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| Wherever possible, use materials that are produced in a sustainable fashion. When considering materials, consider both the impact of creating the raw components of those materials, the impact of the manufacturing process of the final material, and the cost of transporting those materials. |
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