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Permaculture Design by Christopher Hunnicutt

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Commenced:	01/11/2014
Submitted:	10/11/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Raleigh, NC, US
Climate zone:	Warm Temperate

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Permaculture Design by Christopher Hunnicutt

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Urban

Project Summary

The intention of this design is to bring together a diversity of elements in an organised, integrated, and interactive way so that they have a functional use with permanence in mind. This document is an energy audit that will ensure energy flows with positive end results that are higher in product than the required input. I aim to first observe, then thoughtfully design and implement a system that produces more energy than it consumes; making sure that there is enough surplus to maintain and replace the systems’ components over its lifetime.

Project Description

In this project I will be inquiring into nature’s orientation as the basis of form in living design. This installation is exploring the question of how form arises from nature, meta patterns(patterns within patterns), and the interactions/interrelationships between the edges of form and pattern. Patterns and forms are so much a part of us; arising in all things, sometimes seen, and sometimes beyond conscious awareness and comprehension. My aim here is to assemble and outline a space where interactions and creative events can be seen more clearly as part of natural processes arising in pattern and form. This includes the interrelationship between a diversity of elements including patterns, edges, people,plants, and structures orienting within our environment and our very nature. (Here I am defining artist and design as an interactive,integrative, and orienting pattern in and of itself, between edges increative events that are already happening.)

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