Mana Haven Visionary Architecture - Massive Translucent Solar Greenhouse

The Mana Haven pattern (see vision board) is inspired in its essence by the Polynesian marae sacred gathering place and by the Native American longhouse. The pattern is also inspired by the design intentions and conceptual images from the awesome MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology sustainable mass timbre Longhouse project.

A massive shout out to John Klein, a research scientist in MIT’s architecture department who taught a workshop called Mass Timber Design that came up with the new design, explains that “in North America, we have an abundance of forest resources, and a lot of it is overgrown."

While inspired by the above, in our imagineering dream room, a Mana Haven is a very different structure. It is a wood framed greenhouse assembled over degraded soil that will shield permaculture regeneration of the land while also enclosing a delightful, low impact community / retail spaces, clean energy fueling, and dwellings for its stewards and visiting travelers.

The design vision calls for low tech bolted assembly of the wood framing, followed by bolting on large frames of fabricated insulated window panes incorporating translucent solar. Here's a very preliminary sketch done in Keynote.

We need collaborations from leading Visionary Architects to help us turn this rough vision into solid concepts utilizing Regenerative Development and Design processes.

Many thanks to Christchurch-based visionary architect Camia Young of Ohu Office for Holistic Urbanism and XCHC Exchange Christchurch for absorbing our dream room vision and pointing us to key thought leaders in Regenerative Development and Design including:

• Jerome Partington at Jasmax in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand

• Bill Reed at Regenesis Group in Arlington, MA, USA

• Richard Reid at Richard Reid & Associates in Devenport, Auckland, New Zealand

Kīa ora Evan Denmark at MIT. Awesome catching up on 18 July 2020. Thank you for accepting our appointment of you as the “AHA Ambassador to MIT” to represent us where appropriate across MIT in evangelizing Earthshot One Aotearoa New Zealand and to welcome those who would love to contribute. More specifically, please evangelize Mana Haven among the visionary architects and engineers particularly in the Architecture School, the Longhouse project, and with any prospective innovative incorporating of translucent solar.

In appreciation, Bob.