up:: [[Permaculture|Permaculture Design]] tags:: #on/landscape_design #on/permaculture # 2061 Muskoka Rd 169 - Site Design Requirements This site will serve as the joint campus for [[Arcadia Wellness Retreats]] and [[Carbon Vault Design Build Studio]], a hub for climate restoration experiments and demonstration projects. - Address: 2061 Muskoka Rd 169, Gravenhurst ON. P1P 1R2 - Cadmapper: [[cadmapper-2061.skp]] ![[2061-basemap-full.png|600]] ![[Pasted image 20240831114812.png|600]] ![[Pasted image 20240831114533.png|600]] ## Required Functions - Small sawmill, preferably electric. - Hiking and logging trails for access to demonstration projects, sheds, and surveyor cabins. - [[Food Forest]], gardens, 4-season greenhouses and cold frames. - [[Planting Guilds and Garden Ideas]] - [[Agroforestry]] with mushroom harvest and ducks. - [[Bioshelters]] and [[Aquaculture]] for Tilapia and Fathead Minnows. - Outdoor gathering studio for yoga, breathwork, and wellness activities. - A collection of unique sustainable constructions that demonstrate multiple ideas in natural building and regenerative management. - Ref: [[Manual of Biogenic House Sections]] - Ref: [July 2024 - Living Building Challenge 4.1 Program Manual - July 2024](https://www.manula.com/manuals/living-future/living-building-challenge-4-1/1/en/topic/april-2024-lbc) - Solar Kilns for timber drying and [[Solar Pasteurization]]. - Personal archery shooting zone/range. ## Demonstration Projects - [[Timberframe]] or [[Cordwood]] structures, inoculated, harvested, and [[Solar Kiln]] dried as harvest -> housing. - Solar and Wind to pump pond water to mini water towers. - Coppiced wood harvest and cordwood structures. - Sauna, shed, writing studio. - Also upcycle lumber yard trimmings. - Rotational [[Vermicompost]] experiments with [[Pot-in-Pot]] for outdoor plant nurseries. - Treetop communities demonstration with vertical farming. - Future artifact for flooded coastal communities. - Reference the Bajau people. - Earth-sheltered home with walkable productive garden roof. - Solar kitchen with solar oven and a guided parabolic disc. - Biomimetic design: Bees + flowers => solar panels and drones to charge and deploy batteries packs. - Precursor to [[Landscape-Scale Regenerative Robot Fleet]] - Woodfire kiln for [[Biochar]] production and sauna heating. - More natural building demonstrations for design build. - Small diameter roundwood structure, perhaps in combination with bamboo. - Thatching (traditional straw) roof systems. - Bee hotel, herb spirals, misc. permaculture garden projects. - Wetland water filtration, using rice/watercress polyculture. ## Permaculture Design Contest 2024 - [2024 PINA Design Contest - Permaculture Institute of North America](https://pina.in/design_2024-pina-design-contest - Short write up and up to 5 pages of designs to be included. - Page 1: Overall Site Plan - Circulation and Water - Callout for circular ecology and [[Permaculture Principles]] - Callout boxes for detailed designs - Page 2: Main Island Detailed Plan - Page 3: Design Build Area Details Plan - Page 4: Details for Special Initiatives - IoT Ecosystem Monitoring - Biophilic Living -> Ecohabitation - Make graphic to reference Agroforestry spectrum. - Page 5: Details for Demonstration Projects