Eco-Libre Launch-Nest

This repo contains designs for a 5-story building that's designed to house 30 people in a small, off-grid community.

The structure itself is 18 meters x 7 meters and has 5 stories of walled living space (630 sq meters). This does not include the solar energy rooftop, 5th floor terrace, wrap-around balcony, or firewalled stairwells.

Basement

1. Food storage
2. Small urine sump tank & pump
3. Event Room (Theater, Presentation, Dance, Party, etc)
4. Recording Studio

1st Floor

1. Kitchen
2. Barrier-free bedroom (6 beds)
3. Shower room
4. Laundry Room
5. Medium-sized thermal salt tank
6. Large urine WC

2nd Floor

1. 2x Bedrooms (4 beds each = 8 people)
2. Ramp to terrace
3. Covered outdoor bicycle parking on terrace
4. Hot Water Tank (directly above showers)
5. Medium-sized thermal salt tank (next to hot water tank)
6. Small Urine WC
7. Telecommunications & Server Room
8. 1x meeting room
9. 1x large meeting room
10. Lockers and couches

3nd Floor

1. 2x Bedrooms (4 beds each = 8 people)
2. Large Urine WC
3. Library (~12 hot desks)
4. 2x Meeting Rooms

4th Floor

1. 2x Bedrooms (4 beds each = 8 people)
2. Small Urine WC
3. 1x Meeting Room
4. Indoor Coworking Space (~20 hot desks)
5. Snack and Coffee Bar
6. small-sized thermal salt tank

5th 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
6. Small pressurized water tank (and pump) for washing solar equipment

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/.