Award: 5th
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Cluster Housing, Learning, CommunityAn ecological vision within the larger community...The Fields Neighborhood Village is being created by Christopher Mann and Peter Scherrer. When it is complete it's 75 dwellings will be one part of an ecologically aware community that includes the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (where Wisconsin farmers learn Bio-dynamic organic farming), the Lifeways Waldorf school for preschoolers, Nakomis organic bakery, and a community center, all close to two East Troy public schools and a small business district. |
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Green Courts and 'skinny streets'Both the homes and the grounds will have a European quality, clustered around safe, narrow streets and laced with walking paths and trails. Each phase will have at it's center a green court, and residents of the tall six-unit buildings will have expansive views of the fields and land conservancy beyond, over the top of the earth-sheltered duplex units. There will be a mix of condominiums, single-family houses and duplex units, all energy-efficient (with passive & active solar systems) and built 'green' with low-toxin, environmentally safe materials. Design Coalition is designing the buildings and site layout; the planning team also includes leading landscape planners Atelier Dreisitl of Hamburg, Germany. |
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It's not an exaggeration to state that the quality of life depends on the quality of water. Development can seriously harm water quality, by decreasing porous recharge areas and by introducing pollutants. Here, rain water will be absorbed by abundant deep-rooted native plant species. Water from the catchment pond will be directed through Flow Forms to infiltration beds and wetlands before finding it's way to Honey Creek. Flow Forms are beautiful sculptural shapes that aerate and purify water. These 'water sculptures' were first created by John Wilkes and are used extensively by Herbert Dreisitl in his landscape designs.
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For more information about Fields Neighborhood Village, you may contact: Christopher Mann at mfai@michaelfieldsaginst.org or 414/ 642-2661 (fax)Peter Scherrer at peterscherrer@scherrerconstruction.com or 262-767-2700 (voice)For more about the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, visit their website |
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For a more detailed description of the Fields Neighborhood Village, please visit the Homes Across America website.Homes Across America opens the "front door" to resource efficient and high performance home building in the U.S. Visitors can search for homes around the country and find out about the "green" technologies and techniques used to build them. Home profiles offer resource efficient and low maintenance solutions for all incomes and sizes of families. Examples include everything from "off the grid" homes to high performance production models to multi-family apartments. |
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For current photos and more about
Scherrer Construction, visit "The Tradition Continues" at
their website |
