PinkCloud.DK Plans to Transform Oil Refineries into Giant Energy Positive Communities

Interested in a future home that is energy-efficient, airtight, waterproof, and structurally bulletproof? PinkCloud.DK thinks so. To read more about this design, follow the link below:

http://inhabitat.com/pinkcloud-dk-transforms-oil-refineries-into-giant-energy-positive-communities/

A Tale of Two Realities

In his essay, A Tale of Two Realities, Bill relates his, and wife Joan Rockwell's, experiences as they traveled to Nova Scotia and Haiti, in June and November 2011, respectively.

Briefly, Bill and Joan ventured to Nova Scotia for a rewarding conference with peers in architecture and landscape architecture.  Five months later, they were off to Haiti with Marky Jean-Pierre of the Honor for Haiti Foundation (FONHOH) to visit the country and the site of a proposed educational complex in the rural region of Lagoun. This experience was eye-opening and soul-moving, and has further inspired and motivated Bill and Joan to work toward the creation of positive change in the U.S. and abroad.

Enjoy reading.

Photos of the two trips follow below, along with conceptual drawings for the Lagoun-based education center:

Haiti - Bird's eye view of the Lagoun site

Haiti - Site view key plan

Haiti - Eye-level view from roof deck

Haiti - A neighbor's farmhouse

Nova Scotia - Historic Lunenberg

Nova Scotia - Historic Lunenberg

Haiti - Local chairmaker's house

Haiti - Neighbors and future students

Haiti - Neighbors and future students

Nova Scotia - One of the many Brian MacKay-Lyons houses visible around Shobac. They have been compared to vernacular barns, bobbing shipping containers or breaching whales.

Nova Scotia - One of two observatory towers built at Shobac during a previous Ghost Lab

Haiti - Roadside vendors

Haiti - Rural village streetlife

Nova Scotia - Shobac is available to rent for conferences. Below are the barn, cottages and conference building.

Nova Scotia - Stutchbury, Murcott, Frampton & Pallasmaa. Photo by Marcus Gleysteen.

Haiti - The founders of FONHOH and Joan

Nova Scotia - The octagonal barn where the lectures were held. A previous Ghost Lab deconstructed it and reassembled it at Shobac.

Haiti - The old school on the site

Nova Scotia - The octagonal dining tents plated well against the barn

Haiti - View from the school site

Haiti - View from the school site

Haiti - View from the school site



Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces