Urban Scale

This website is about MAXergy, which in the current form can be used to evaluate buildings, or other products/functions. However its suitable to work the other way around: how much can be produced from a given piece of land? A next question is, how to deal with urban environments: built environments that already exist and consume, can the impact be brought back to within the supporting system? And can MAXergy/Embodied Land used for that?

To cover existing built environments, The Urban Harvest approach is developed. Below is a report on the method, and a case study. it turns out that if a existing built environment is pushed to the limit in terms of living from within its own system, very new solutions turn up, paradigm shifts in how we organize our society, and with many social and labor related advantages. Currently a new version is in development and tested. If ready it will be announced here.

in Dutch:

Microsoft Word – Rapport Bestaande Wijk voor Morgen Deel A – Concept

Microsoft Word – Rapport Bestaande Wijk voor Morgen Deel B – Case KW Concept.compressed

in English:

2011 UH+ case Kerkrade West RiBuilT -English 2011

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This is a working environment to develop a unweighed evaluation tool for impacts by human activities, based on the ' effort' to keep resource cycles closed. Its open source, and material is available for students and researchers that want to contribute to the development or want to use it as study material in students assignments.

The site is run independent by Ronald Rovers, and supported by lecturers and students from several universities. But more is welcome!
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See the open call for contributions, and the "to solve" page for interesting research questions.

MAXergy ( "Maximising Exergy") is the name of the methodology to calculate all impacts to close a resource cycle: from harvesting or mining, to restoring the original stock. ( for organic as well as for minerals and metals). It also does this without weighing factors, bringing all impacts under 1 indicator, 'Embodied Land'.

Embodied Land is in fact the land required to produce all our goods and energy, in a way to maintain the original quality/potential in a system .
More detailed:
Embodied Land is defined as : the land (related to incoming solar radiation) binded over a certain time period required to process ( Embodied Energy) and to restore (Circular energy) the energy and materials involved in providing any functional service , in order to maintain (restore) system potential upon the level before the service provided – based on the only one source that does not deplete our own system environment : Solar radiation.

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Urban Scale

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