Building in Nature’s Image
Through our uniquely adaptable framework of Ecological Performance Standards, Northeast designs, teaches and Builds in Nature’s Image.
Ecological Performance Standards define patterns of health for buildings and communities, by seeking out and setting Life’s standards as the measure of health for buildings and communities to achieve. In identifying how Life designs, builds, and lives locally, it becomes possible to distill and define functional patterns of restoration and resilience that are solved in Place by local communities, i.e., inherently indigenous. Buildings and communities, as do species, have habitat, that landscape of time and place over which they draw essential nutrients, find food and building supplies, raise families and live for future generations.
The aim is to recreate the design/building process, to remake our buildings and communities as functionally restorative and resilient elements of the Biosphere. For more detail about ecological performance standards, please check out our blog or listen to Janine Benyus describe them:
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Building in Nature’s Image sets the template of Life and Biosphere as building code and the patterns of design, manufacturing, policy of our 10 to 100 million coresident species as adaptive patterns of health and sustainable strategies for us to adopt.