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GAIA ASSOCITEV

Gaia from Ancient Greek "land" or "earth"; also Gaea, or Ge) was the goddess or personification of Earth in ancient Greek religion, one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia was the great mother of all: the heavenly gods, the Titans and the Giants were born from her union with Uranus (the sky), while the sea-gods were born from her union with Pontus (the sea). Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra

MEANING OF GAIA

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as Gaia theory or Gaia principle, proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a self-regulating, complex system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. Topics of interest include how the biosphere and the evolution of life forms affect the stability of global temperature, ocean salinity, oxygen in the atmosphere and other environmental variables that affect the habitability of Earth.

GAIA HYPOTHESIS

GAIA FLOWING

The Gaia Foundation is passionate about regenerating cultural and biological diversity, and restoring a respectful relationship with the Earth. Together with long-term partners in Africa, South America, Asia and Europe, we work with local communities to secure land, seed, food and water sovereignty. By reviving indigenous knowledge and protecting sacred natural sites, local self-governance is strengthened. This enables communities to become more resilient to climate change and the industrial processes which have caused the many crises we now face. Gaia makes a long-term commitment with our partners to address the root causes of today's most pressing ecological, social and economic injustices. We are a small, flexible team, which enables us to read and respond quickly to emerging issues and opportunities for change.

GAIA FOUNDATION

GAIA DESIGN

With Gaia Design provides sustainable architecture & landscape architecture design, consulting, and education services. Our focus is passive solar homes, and civic and commercial site design. We strive to combine the precision of modern building science with the materials and methods of natural building, to create homes that are beautiful, sustainable, and healthy. Many of the buildings we have designed utilize strawbale walls, earth finishes, and organic forms. Our site designs integrate aesthetics, regionally adapted plants, and water conservation / reclamation, to create ecologically sound landscapes that enliven their occupants, and integrate buildings with their surroundings.

GAIA DESIGN

The designers' home, this strawbale nestles into a north facing hillside. With views of several power lines to the south, and a Nature Conservancy wetlands to the north, balancing our strong solar interest with the natural view was a challenge. We splurged on north facing views in the kitchen, where we spend most of our time, and created a terraced food garden (link) to the south, with fruit trees that will eventually block the utility lines.

GAIA DESIGN

GAIA GROUP

Gaia innovate through an ongoing and simultaneous process of research, design, construction, evaluation, dissemination and training. We are increasingly involved in capacity building in the private and public sector through partnering or assisting in the delivery of real projects. We combine architecture, engineering, landscape, community consultation and, masterplanning services. Our aim is to constantly innovate to push forward sustainable design of buildings and places

GAIA GROUP

Design Services Gaia offers a full range of feasibility, architectural, project management and landscape services to suit masterplanning and building requirements. We specialise in community consultation and participation to assist in setting project objectives and in brief development. Our scope of services includes housing, schools, commercial, tourism, leisure and academic buildings. We have led the field in developing benign specification as a means of risk management for ourselves and our clients.

GAIA GROUP

Gaia Architects were commissioned by private clients to design a new dwelling on a site overlooking the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. Completed in October 2011 it is the first house to be constructed in the UK using the mass timber Brettstapel technique.

GAIA GROUP

The brief from the National Trust for Scotland required a visitor centre that took account of the sensitivity of the local landscape and local population to visitor pressure, and specifically to meet the co-requirements on the Trust to provide 'access' and 'conservation'.

Gaia were approached by Simple Minds to design a studio on the shore of Loch Earn.

GAIA GROUP

Howard Liddell Sandy Halliday

GAIA GROUP Architecture

Gaia Ecotecture's We believe that the Art element in eco design is hugely important – the intensive design process distils the content and brief to arrive at a simple, essential design which has the quality of restraint, but fulfilment, at many levels. For enhanced health , happiness, quality of life, and minimal interference with nature, the GAIA design ethos is one of integrating new built environment events with natural systems. This is a very practical approach based on 30 years of pioneering experience in the field. We believe in beauty as a key to happiness; both are ephemeral, spiritual, but linked.

Gaia Ecotecture's

The GAIA ethos is a joyful positive view that enhances design quality and greatly improves quality of life. Not limited to energy issues alone, it encompasses natural light, natural materials for air quality and health, colour theory and a general sense of vitality. It takes 40 years for philosophical insight to reach general practice and in 2010 we can now see the changes in general practice from the insights of the late '60s. In a post-industrial and increasingly globalised environment the insight that we cannot continue destroying our own habitat, and that of other species, without very serious eventual consequences, and short term affects, is now in general practice. However, many architects remain very unsure how to apply sustainable principles while still giving clients beautiful buildings. After more than 30 years in private practice we know how to.

Gaia Ecotecture's

1-Winner LAMA Awards 2010 for Most Eco Friendly Building (for the Navan Credit Union)

2-Architectural Award Meath Co Co TTC 2005

3-RIAI annual Awards Exhibition, Office & eco pavilion 1998

4-PLAN Building of the Year Award (Leinster), Office Building, 1997

5-An Taisce Ellison Award, Contemporary Office Building 1996

Gaia Ecotecture's

I have decades' worth of experience as an ecotect (being qualified in both architecture and engineering, having double graduated from UCD in years 1975 and 1971 respectively). I've designed hundreds of projects ranging from a crèche to a micro hydropower plant to supermarket, office buildings to dwellings and apartments, for all sorts of people and budgets from the least possible cost to luxury level.

Paul Leech

Gaia Ecotecture's

architect and a co-director of Paul Leech: GAIA ecotecture with whom I have been involved in several substantial realised, ecological building projects in the Ireland & the UK: This has provided me perspective regarding environmentally-conscious design: The issues are complex. a member of The Village project, building a sustainable community, the Ecovillage in Cloughjordan Tipperary

Sally Starbuck

Gaia Ecotecture's

The Waterfall House, Meath. Based on the substructure of an old mill and incorporating its original turbine this new build from the ruin incorporates many ecological features including recycled stone and passive solar. A series of cascading spaces internally echo the sun trap terraces externally, all overlooking the waterfall.

Gaia Ecotecture's

Gaia Ecotecture's

This dwelling is in a sustainable woodland, filled and planted to restore a worked-out quarry 50 years ago. Construction is virtually all timber, and the house has a heat pump drawing from a reflecting pond and south-facing banks of earth. The whole site is worked as permaculture. There is reed-bed water treatment and a well on-site. Passive solar principles were applied. Good daylight factor, especially from the high sky component, in dense woodland, drove the design and deciduous shading in Summer helps avoid overheating.

Gaia Ecotecture's

Gaia Ecotecture's

This lakeside dwelling off the Shannon is served by a short canal, giving direct access. The cone shape was chosen to cast no Summer shadow into a courtyard adjacent to the 18th C cottage, to which it forms an addition. An all timber building, with the passive solar space looking to the canal and river, over an ancient spring well, which is preserved. Space heating is by heat pump, drawing on the lake water, and a low energy fan, powered by PV, distributes solar gain into the thermal mass of the Trombe wall

Gaia Ecotecture's These holiday homes in West Cork were accommodated in a ruined coastguard station (1904). A decayed flat roof was replaced with a hipped roof accommodating new rooms at high level with superb views The interiors were reordered, to allow sunlight to penetrate the entire ground floor, enjoying sea views and opening onto private sun-trap terraces, sheltered from the prevailing winds

The colourful staircase emerged as a key detail of the design, aesthetically containing the kernel of the concept, finally, although grounded in very practical concerns of fire safety and smoke control ; often it’s the resolution of details and many conflicting factors that transcend compromise, to bring real delight to design and make it ‘sing’.

Gaia Ecotecture's

This live-work building, on an extreme west of Ireland peninsula, replaced some ugly buildings and sheds. It is of round-pole timber, free-form geodesic structure, with grass roof, in sympathy with its exceptional ocean headland setting and utilises passive and active solar energy. The unique form language of the design evolved from our sense of the site, climate and local ecology.

Gaia Ecotecture's This visitor reception and Guide facility on the site of the megalithic site at Knowth is an all timber ephemeral structure in contrast to the national monument. This small building is located in the immediate approach to the ancient tumuli.These tumuli have a complex history: they now speak, in abstract terms, to an ancient sense of landscape and Nature quite different to the mainstream sensibility of the early the 21st century. In approaching the design we wanted to avoid archaeological mimicry; to set the building lightly on the ground as a contrasting welcoming point for the visitor and as a working shelter for the guides. In this sense it stands on the ground like an insect or a bird or other ‘animal’ sentinel, and aware of its relatively short life in the context of the archaeological time

Gaia Ecotecture's

Done By : ALAA ABDULRHMAN BAKUR

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Supervision : DR. FAROQ MOFTI

ENG. Ahmed Fallatah

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