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VISION/GOALS - Become the Mecca of Open Source Development

CAPACITY - 30 people extracting resources for living

                Population for special events: 200

Priority List:

• Driveway/Parking
• Upgrade hot water heater in HabLab
• toilet/bath facilities - rehab of Hexayurt and Solar Cubicles
• Landscaping around HabLab - stabilized bricks
• Paths
• MicroHouse Patio + Trellis
• MicroHouse Storage
• Utility lines - water, power, internet, wireless communication
• HabLab water spigot
• slop sink in workshop
• renovate 2 huts
• upgrade the silo
• Toorcamp-style rapid dev event
• Finish workshop exterior stucco
• Interstellar shit muncher - rope in Francis
• Two or more MicroHouses

Low Hanging Fruit:

• Finish well - install pressure tank, power, pump

• HabLab insulation skirt around house finish
• Finish 2 outside rooms in HabLab
• HabLab paint inside (paint one wall here and there to lighten up)
• HabLab ‘nicefy’ common room
• Dinner bell
• Patios and trellis
• Patio/lounge area outside hablab + wood storage outside hablab
• Herb and vegetable gardens
• Reorganize electronics lab
• BBQ
• Hot tub? Where would it go?

Camping/Outdoor Kitchen/Bath

• Overflow housing
• campsites
• Interstella shit muncher semiclosed-loop water system
• fire pit
• outdoor cooking
• outdoor sink
• shower/bathroom facility
• Path from rest of campus
• Zipline
• Treehouse
• Hammocks

Access

• Paths
• Roads
• Utiliity lines - water, power, internet, wireless communication
• Irrigation lines
• Parking for ___ cars
• Signage

Storage 

• Barns
• Root cellar
• Firewood storage
• Grain storage
• Canning facilities
• Fuel storage

Materials Production

• Rubber from dandelion root resin
• Bioplastics from biomass
• Bio-hydraulic fluid and lubricants
• Fischer-Tropf fluid from wood
• Fuel alcohol from wood
• Cement from limestone
• Aluminum from clay
• Solar grade silicon and semiconductor grade silicon
• Gravel, sand, and clay pits
• Glass production from cullet and sand
• Oxyhydrogen gas production
• Acetylene production
• Lumber production
• Metal melting from scrap
• Open source butcher shop
• Potassium hydroxide production
• Beer + mead production + wine + potato vodka

Energy Production

• Windmill
• Solar concentrator electric system
• Biogas digester
• Biodiesel production
• Wood alcohol production
• Pelletized biomass cropping, modern steam power

“Beauty Parlor”

• Activities

• Training (approx. 12 people)

• Large machinery (tractors, brick presses, etc.)
• Electronics
• Materials / Chemical

• Research & Development

• Machinery of varied sizes
• Electronics
• Materials / Chemical
• Business models
• Documentation

• Entertainment / Discussion

• Social gatherings (relaxation)
• Discussions
• Leisure workshops (permaculture, welding, etc.)
• Leisure activities
• Presentations/classes

• Infrastructure Requirements

• Work

• Heavy industries workshop - existing shop - 4000 sf
• Electronics / Clean workshop - 2000 sf

•  combination of movable/immovable furniture

• table with power supplies to avoid tripping

• need open floor space (at least occasionally) for

• Digital fabrication lab (separate from workshops - fumes and noise - and temperature controlled, fumes exhaust)

• at least one laser cutter
• air compressor
• air assist
• space does not need to be huge… number of projects occurring at one time is limited by number of machines
• ideal to have high visibility for digi fab equipment

• Wet / Bio lab

• (must be contained to avoid contamination)

• “Study” (quiet) area
• Classroom/Flex-space (acoustically isolated from workshop spaces)
• Library
• Art, photography, multimedia, music production, sound studio, craft space
• Heirloom Technology Center

• Living and Leisure

• Housing (both dorm-style and 2 individual suites w/ private bathroom)
• Indoors leisure area
• Patios
• Multiple kitchens (to accommodate a large population)
• BBQ
• Hot tub
• Swimming pool
• Entertainment center
• Orchard / herb garden / vegetable garden / greenhouse (oranges, avocado) / trellises with food crop (grapes, cold temp kiwi)
• Movie theater
• social space for games
• presentations to larger groups
• outdoor rec area (could be volleyball or open green for frisbee/soccer)
• dinner bell
• Patio bricks
• Museum (cordwood/earthbag/historic tractor)
• Library
• First Aid center
• Storm shelter

Longhair Facilities

• Movie theater
• social space for games
• presentations to larger groups
• hot tub
• swimming pool
• patios
• Biofeedback
• outdoor rec area (could be volleyball or open green for frisbee/soccer)
• Open Source massage chair
• Moxibustion supplies
• Hot yoga room
• Sauna
• Pool tables
• Ping pong tables
• Foosball table
• Stage for plays
• Open Source massage chair
• Sweat lodge

Recreation Center/Mini-Auditorium

Office

• Meeting room
• Office with locking filing cabinets
• Ping Pong table

Agriculture

• Vegetable garden
• Sheep, pigs, and cattle
• Tool shed
• Equipment Barn
• Animal Barn
• Root cellar
• Greenhouse
• Erosion Control Earth berming
• Pond - fish and swim
• Food forest
• Lumber crop
• Firewood crop
• Oil crop
• 100% food diet
• Animal husbandry
• Mycoculture
• Bat culture
• Apiculture
• Haying
• Grains
• Meats
• Hunting deer
• Orchard, berries
• Mobile milking robots
• Vermiculture

Biodiversity

• Nature trail (interpretive signs)

Cabins

• special visitors/VIPs
• Air BNB Facilities
• Staff housing

Food

• Food processing
• Freezer storage
• Open Source Butcher Shop
• Grain processing
• Bakery
• Dairy
• Food dehydration facilities