Solarpunk Urbanism

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A community to discuss solarpunk and other new and alternative urbanisms that seek to break away from our currently ecologically destructive urbanisms.

Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.

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The solarpunk building where I'm working in (slrpnk.net)

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I usually work from home, but at the moment I'm working in that zero-energy building. It's not the most beautiful, but it actually generates more energy than it consumes! There is a small garden on the rooftop with vegetables for employees to pick up and wooden picnic tables. The wooden structure holds solar panels and provide shading for the sun.

It could be better looking, but definitely solarpunk in spirit I think. Also, I like that it functions as a normal office building, it's not something built for show-off, but actually practical.

There's info about the building at this website (in Spanish, tho).

P.S. Maybe we need an !architecture community?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's very cool, but also a very odd shape? I don't see much "form follows function" in there or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, the shape of the wooden thing it’s been thought to provide shade at noon while allowing sunlight at dawn and dusk, while maximising the energy collected I think. Also there’s an underground terrace that it’s protected from rain by it, since it rains a lot here. Maybe it’s easier to visualise from the maps model:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is solar but I am not convinced it’s punk. Garden on the roof top is cool but is it good enough to feed people or is it rather decorative?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not very punk, but a step in the right direction I think. The garden it’s good enough to get some strawberries as a snack or complete your salad with a fresh tomato from time to time. Of course it would make much more sense to have all the surrounding park planted with vegetables… but it’s something.