Eco-Libre / launch-nest

Designs for a Mixed-Use, Multi-Story, Highly-Sustainable Community House for 30 people

Eco-Libre Launch Nest

This repo contains designs for a 6-story building that's designed to house 30 people in a small, off-grid community.

Basement

1. Food storage
2. Small urine sump tank & pump
3. Theater/Meeting room

1st Floor

1. Kitchen
2. Barrier-free dorm bedroom (4 beds)
3. Shower room
4. Medium-sized thermal salt tank
5. Small urine WC

2nd & 3rd Floor

The second floor is our workshop with high ceilings that actually spans both the second and third floor.

1. Large Workshop with crane
2. Ramp to workshop's garage door
3. Covered outdoor bicycle parking on terrace
4. Medium-sized thermal salt tank
5. Hot Water Tank
6. Large Urine WC

4th Floor

1. 3x dorm Bedrooms (3x4 = 12 people)
2. 1x single Bedroom (1-2 people)
3. Telecommunications & Server Room
4. Locker Rooms
5. Laundry Room
6. Small Urine WC

5th Floor

1. 3x dorm Bedrooms (3x4 = 12 people)
2. 1x single Bedroom (1-2 people)
3. Large Urine WC
4. Indoor Coworking Space
5. Library
6. Recording Studio
7. Meeting Room

6th Floor

1. Open-Air Terrace
2. Projector & Presentation Space
3. Battery & Transformer Electrical Room
4. Large Thermal Salt Tank
5. Ground-Water Tank
6. Rain-Water Tank
7. Filtered Drinking-Water Tank
8. Primary Urine-Water Tank
9. Sun Room
10. Clothes Drying Area

Rooftop

1. Parabolic Solar Concentrators
2. Solar Photovoltaic Array
3. Sloped, Steel-reinforced concrete grid
4. Sunroof grid
5. Large overhang of transparent polycarbonate panels

License

Copyright (C) 2023 Michael Altfield and the Eco-Libre Team

The contents of this repo are under the GPL version 3 or later. In addition, any content other than code can also be used, at your choice, under CC-BY-SA version 4.0.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.