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Building with awareness : the construction of a hybrid home / a Syncronos Design production ; directed, written, photographed, and edited by Ted Owens.
LIBRA DVD TH4818.S77 B853 2005 DVD + guidebook
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable buildings--Design and construction.
- Sustainable buildings.
- Photovoltaic power generation.
- Solar energy--Hybrid systems.
- Solar energy.
- Ecological houses--Design and construction.
- Ecological houses.
- Straw bale houses--Design and construction.
- Straw bale houses.
- Genre:
- Educational films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (152 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Version 1.0 ; widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- Corrales, NM : Syncronos Designs Incorporated ; Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers [distributor], [2005]
- System Details:
- DVD; digital stereo; NTSC; aspect ratio 4:3; playable on all PCs capable of playing DVD videos.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- DVD how-to video on green and sustainable straw bale house design, adobe, cob, and other alternative and green building materials; the design of structures to create a sense of place, detailed construction techniques, passive heating and cooling, solar energy, rainwater cisterns, earth and mud plaster, cob, rubble trench foundations, thermal mass walls, passive heating and cooling, off-the-grid photovoltaic electrical generation, movies, inspiration, and other green building techniques.
- Participant:
- Instructor, Ted Owens; narrator, Anneliese Varaldiev.
- Credits:
- Additional photography and narration by Anneliese Varaldiev; original music written and performed by Emily Dahmen.
- Notes:
- Guidebook is copyright 2006.
- DVD is in pocket in front of guidebook.
- Special features: 2nd audio track with additional design and construction commentary; slide show of construction details, including narration; short film, "How to split a straw bale."
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- How to split a straw bale
- ISBN:
- 0977334317
- 9780977334315
- OCLC:
- 77465834
- Publisher Number:
- 882351 Syncronos Design
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