The following is a diagramatic section through a typical residential unit. The improved air quality, cool night time temperatures, healthy material standards and natural ventilation strategies allow for almost the complete elimination of summer cooling loads.
Families enjoy the beauty of indigenous, low maintenance landscapes and permaculture.
The abundance of spring rain is impounded in gardens and water cisterns. All brown wastes are safely composted by the city and become a valued resource for agriculture. Many of the families enjoy the development of small vegetable gardens adjacent to the home, within the residential clusters or in the greenbelt. Family or clustered greenhouses allow for extended growing seasons.