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• a summary sketch
of five principles
Home in Mayan traditional style: knowledge of local materials reveal that native peoples were conscious of both the placement of structures in relation to the sun, and in relation to their acoustic capacity to disperse heat (high rooves) and placing structures to transmit the human voice at great distances.
First Principle: Solutions grow from place:
Ecological design begins with the intimate knowledge of a particular place. Therefore, it is small scale and direct, responsive to both local conditions and local people. If we are sensitive to the nuances of place, we can inhabit without destroying."
By working with living processes, we respect the needs of all species by meeting our own. Engaging in processes that regenerate rather than deplete, we become more alive."
Listen to every voice in the design process. No one is participant only, or designer only. .. Honor the special knowledge that each person brings. As people work together to heal their places, they also heal themselves."
Fifth Principle: Make Nature
Ecological Design Analysis of the book
Ecological design interpreted graphically with relation to sustaining places