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> To: [post.idexstudio.auburnSD@squarespace.com] > From: Timothy Werfelmann [timmishvon@gmail.com] > Subject: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn > > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > > - Timothy

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Reminder about your invitation from Timothy Werfelmann

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This is a reminder that on July 14, Timothy Werfelmann sent you an invitation to become part of his or her professional network at LinkedIn.

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On July 14, Timothy Werfelmann wrote:

> To: [post.idexstudio.auburnSD@squarespace.com] > From: Timothy Werfelmann [timmishvon@gmail.com] > Subject: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn > > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > > - Timothy

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Urgent notice of Intellectual Property protection

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Urgent notice of Intellectual Property protection

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Urgent notice of Intellectual Property protection

Dear Manager:This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China and Asia.On May 16th 2011, We received HAITONG company's application that they are registering the name " idexstudio " as their Internet Keyword and " idexstudio .cn "、" idexstudio .com.cn " 、" idexstudio .asia "domain names etc.., It is China and ASIA domain names. But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check. According to the principle in China, your company is the owner of the trademark, In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!Best regards,John Oversea marketing manager Shanghai Office (Head Office) 3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China Tel: +86 216191 8696 Fax: +86 216191 8697 Web: www.ygnetwork.com.cn

SD2 Charette and SD2 Blog Entry

SD2 Charette: Community AgricultureCommunity Supporting Urban CSA

This concept interconnects some of the community garden plots in Auburn with the city sponsored CSA. Auburn community members could receive a free plot of land to grow their own produce for their family’s consumption. In exchange for the plot of land (possibly 30’ X 30’ or 40’ X 40’ would be sufficient) the community member agrees to use half of the space to grow enough of one crop for the CSA. This would be a true CSA and a way for people to grow their own food and, also, contribute to the social capital of Auburn.

SD2 Blog Entries Community Agriculture: Documents

One of the documents necessary to establish a Community Supporting Urban CSA in Auburn would be a revised model of the structure of the community supported agriculture system shown in the diagram. Interviews would be held for community members who have experience growing a crop, and community garden plot preference given to experienced gardeners and farmers. For residents who would like some instruction on growing crops that are still needed after certain crops are covered by a CSCSA gardener’s, classes will be given on production methods for any remaining crops needed for the CSA. Most likely there will still be crops that need to be produced independently in greenhouses or in other agricultural production areas, although the space needed to produce the remaining CSA items will be drastically reduced. Community members can grow their own local, fresh food while using their green thumbs to provide local sustenance for the community of Auburn. Recycling of food waste by CSCSA gardener’s and CSA members is crucial in this system to return plant available nutrients and soil organic matter back to the soil. Vermicomposting the food waste allows for the most nutrient filled use of the recycled waste.

FW: SD2 Blog Entry: Stormwater and Clean Energy (Street Scale)

Micro-hydroelectric power is an idea that has been around for decades and recently has been introduced into the market. The idea is that small scale water flows can be utilized to create electricity, without the need for large scale dams or long distance transmission lines and costs. Since Auburn has excess water during the rainy seasons, small micro-hydroelectric generators (such as the one seen above) can be placed on storm water pipes 8” in diameter, and can produce sustainable electricity. Systems such as these have been used on rural farms and small communities that are too far from an electric grid and are not able to feasibly get electricity. In Auburn’s case, these generators could be connected to the existing storm water infrastructure, and could produce power to a particular neighborhood or commercial/industrial area in the city. Further investigation into the cost and practicality of the idea needs to be done, however, if proven worthy, micro-hydroelectric generators would be a cheap way for Auburn to become more self sustaining, and could even generate revenue if power companies decided to purchase the electricity generated by the city.

Kevin R

SD2 Blog Entry: Stormwater and Clean Energy (Street Scale)

Micro-hydroelectric power is an idea that has been around for decades and recently has been introduced into the market. The idea is that small scale water flows can be utilized to create electricity, without the need for large scale dams or long distance transmission lines and costs. Since Auburn has excess water during the rainy seasons, small micro-hydroelectric generators (such as the one seen above) can be placed on storm water pipes 8” in diameter, and can produce sustainable electricity. Systems such as these have been used on rural farms and small communities that are too far from an electric grid and are not able to feasibly get electricity. In Auburn’s case, these generators could be connected to the existing storm water infrastructure, and could produce power to a particular neighborhood or commercial/industrial area in the city. Further investigation into the cost and practicality of the idea needs to be done, however, if proven worthy, micro-hydroelectric generators would be a cheap way for Auburn to become more self sustaining, and could even generate revenue if power companies decided to purchase the electricity generated by the city.

Stormwater Management

Stormwater ManagementINFRASTRUCTURE

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Building /site scale; infrastructurerain garden terrace

The goal of man- made TERRACE is designed to reduce the speed of storm water, increase evaporation speed and most importantly is to turn storm water into usable water. The terrace is layered with plants that work as a filtration system to filter out debris, providing filtered water for nearby residents and businesses. Availability of clean water from the terrace depends on the season. It is an alternative resource for locals. Cleaner water at the bottom for residents and businesses will be used for cleansing work, such as toilet flashing or plants watering. There are at least three levels in this design. First level and second level are not as completely filtered as the bottom level, therefore water from these levels will not be used for humans, rather it will runoff to the ground. The design perhaps can be used on roofs and walls of a building or on site. It can be creatively implemented to achieve different aesthetic needs. Large scaled terrace can be an eye catching theme for the city of Auburn. The bottom of each level has a hydroelectrically-powered turbine to generate heat to evaporate some of the water in a faster manner in high season when excessive storm water runoff happens.

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Horizontal Treatment - SD2 Stormwater Infrastructure 1:10

Horizontal Treatment can be used with LID devices such as green gutters or potentially rain gardens. Auburn’s high water tables limit the locations which standard bioretention devises can be used due to depth requirements. Where water tables are slightly too high to allow these standard devises to be used, an impermeable layer would be laid under the LID device forcing water to flow horizontally allowing treatment to take place in the lateral soils rather than the deeper soils reducing the required depth and allowing these devises to be used in areas with higher water tables. The lateral flow also helps to spread out mounding which can be a concern with larger bioretention devises that receive runoff from a large area. By spreading out the discharge to the edges of the impermeable layer, mounding occurs over a greater area, creating lower mounding. This effect would need to be quantified, but could also reduce the depth to water table requirement of 3 ft. Some initial calculations have been done to conserve the volume and cross-sectional flow area with the innovation from the typical bioretention devices. Soil qualities should be investigated for sediment transport and hydraulic conductivity to make sure piping does not become an issue and to find out how much flow can be handled. The impermeable layer could potentially peak in the center a bit to prevent water from accumulating on it. There may need to be structural supports in areas over the impermeable layer within the soil to prevent compaction.

Julee Trump

FW: Treatment Berms - SD2 Stormwater Infrastructure 1:10

Treatment Berms are intended to be multi functional elements that would be used on a slope such as near slopes that occur near some of the main corridors in Auburn. Some of these appear to drain into wetland areas while others into ditches used in stormwater infrastructure. The berm would be composed of engineered and or natural material layered in such a way as to promote microbial growth and chemical degradation. The berm would form a trench between the polluting surface and the receiving feature. Water could accumulate in this trench where wetland and water tolerant vegetation could reside. The vegetation would not only help to reduce flows through transpiration, but also treat pollutants through uptake. Water would then trickle through the berm’s treatment layers for further purification. The berm would be planted with medium-large vegetation to small vegetation in order to help stabilize the bank and create a visual and or auditory boundary. The top of the berm would need to be lower than the runoff surface or contain an overflow to prevent flooding of occupied spaces. Depending on conditions some structure may also need to be investigated to support the back slope. The treatment subgrade for this system needs to be sized, and oriented as well as media needs to be selected. Wetland and berm vegetation can be selected based on aesthetics, noise dampening qualities and hardiness. Ideally, these systems would require little to no maintenance especially if placed along SR 167.

Julee Trump

FW: Manhole Retrofit - SD2 Stormwater Infrastructure 1:10

Manhole Retrofits are intended to work with existing infrastructure in order to treat street and parking lot runoff before it is conveyed to surface and groundwater. The retrofit would fit into existing manholes and large catchbasins to filter runoff before it enters the pipe system. Zeolites have been looked into for use in this filter that would remove heavy metals in solution through ion exchange. A thin layer of sand, peat or mulch over the zeolites would trap solids removing hydrocarbons and metals sorbed to particulate matter. Oil separators can also be used to reduce clogging and on overflow structures. Zeolites would need to be replaced based on storm events and the treatment area every few months. Zeolites can be regenerated or cleaned for reuse. Although Zeolites can remove most if not all contaminants in the water, they also add sodium (among other more benign) ions and have a tendency to decrease Ph. The illustrated design is based on published scholarly articles. It will need additional testing to determine what is removed versus what is added to the runoff. Other filter medias and other filter configurations could also be explored. Cost analysis and maintenance issues need to be examined

Julee Trump

Fwd: Commercial Urban Agriculture Systems Scale

---------- Forwarded message ----------From: shane fagan Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:58 PMSubject: Commercial Urban Agriculture Systems ScaleTo: postidexstudio.auburnSD@squarespace.com

Commercial system of agriculture, for Auburn, are very excitingopportunities for advancing farming as we know it. The density of urbanareas will allow us to look at options that would not be feasible anywhereelse. Auburn also has a network of water recycling that creates a surplusof ingredients needed for farming. By introducing this new economy to thearea we will also create jobs to stimulate the economy. The new jobs willmake a demand for more sustainable housing to serve future residence. Theneglected manufacturing spaces would also take on the new role ofmanufacturing product for consumption. Having this close source for freshfood would also be a wonderful asset to the community. The systems thathave been suggested for this project are ultimate very adaptable. The Goalfor the systems chosen will be to also provide protection to the groundwater on site. Hydroponic system, for example, can be laid out in avertical, horizontal, or any combination of both and will not contaminatethe ground water. This flexibility will allow us to place them on wall aswell as floors to make an optimal growing environment. The adaptability willallow them to function in spaces such as manufacturing building walls orroofs, highway sides, boulevards, center streets, pedestrian ways, excreta.Programs such as city wide composting will take the more traditionalplanters and fields to new levels of production. We will be able to reducewaste going to landfills increase productivity for farming with this system.

-Shane Fagan

New Construction Deliverables

Our goal, as the group whose focus is new construction and development, is to provide the City of Auburn the following deliverables: A final report, a calculations package, and a 20% complete set of construction documents.

The project report shall provide the City of Auburn a candid and comprehensive discussion of the project. In the project report, we will include all supplemental research conducted for the project. We will discuss the evolution of our design process, the rational for our decisions, and our ultimate vision. The objective of the final report is to educate anyone working on the project in the future about what we accomplished and learned so they can easily reference, expound upon, and utilize our work.

In addition to our project report, we will provide a calculations package. Our structural analysis will focus on issues that most threaten the feasibility of the design. Because expectations for deliverables is a 20% complete set of construction documents, we will include a summary of our assumptions made within our calculations and a summary of calculations that have yet to be completed and will need to be addressed in the future in order to bring the project design to completion.

The 20% complete set of construction documents shall include a full sized set of drawings.

Architectural sheets shall include:

General Notes

Site Plan

Elevations

Building Sections

Floor Plans

Non-Structural Details Sheets

Structural sheets shall include:

General Notes

Schedules

Foundation Plan

Framing Plan for each floor

Roof Plan

Details Sheets

It should be noted that if we choose to pursue modular construction, we will have two sets of design documents: one for construction in the factory and another for assembly in the field.

-Luke deBarthy

Stormwater Intrastructure water wall

Water Wall: Evaporating Water WallSince the City of Auburn wants to focus on storm water management for this project I want to use iconic markers to call out where water is being managed. The following water wall concept is to use the natural process of evaporation to manage excess storm water. This water wall design captures rain water on the canopy of an imperfect barrel-vault and sheds the water off two drip-tips into a detention pond. The water wall on sunny days amplifies the suns heat to aid in water evaporation or the collected storm water. The water wall needs to be placed according to sun position and wind flow over the detention ponds. Deliverables:-Evaporating Water Wall Design (showing a system that can be applied at different scales)-List of materials required for evaporating water wall-Site plan showing placement of water wall

Betsy

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Esther Yuen

Commercial Urban Agriculture Human Scale

When commercial agriculture is viewed on a personal level, it can have asurprisingly human scale to it. We are striving to choose systems that willcreate an atmosphere that enriches the quality of life for the residence ofAuburn. Components, such as the individual planters in a hydroponic system,can be arranged in such a way that while the products are growing the areascan be opened up to the public to create a garden space that enriches thecommunity. Also plant selection is a great way to allow the plants to workfor the city as well. If there are taller plants arranged near thehighways, then they can act as an attractive noise barrier for the peoplecommuting. Storm water is also an important part of the community. Once itwas viewed as a problematic issue with retention pond being needed to slowthe flow of water out of the area, but now we could use those ponds to makefish farms. This once eyesore could become wonderful park experiences thathelps to feed the agricultural goals of the area. The ponds would enliventhe community with a new form of interaction for the Auburn residence. Allowingthe people to see the vast improvements and allowing them to interact withthe systems will then further the awareness of the importance of the stepsAuburn is taking to make an environmentally conscientious place to live.

Stormwater Infrastructure Scale Water Wall

Water Wall: Recycled Glass Gabion Wall Since the City of Auburn wants to focus on storm water management for this project I want to use iconic markers to call out where water is being managed. The following water wall concept is to use a gabion wall constructed out of steel mesh and recycled glass bottles. The gabion walls will be equipped with color changing lights to serve as markers even at night. These semi-transparent walls will be beautiful markers for detention and retention ponds, as well as functional barriers between drainage ditches, like the one that parallels the Interurban Trail and the pedestrian trail. The gabion glass walls can vary in size depending on their surroundings, like 3’ tall (human scale) parallel to the Interurban Trail and 9-15’ tall (larger scale) near the freeway. Deliverables:-Recycled Glass Gabion Wall Design (showing a system that can be applied at different scales)-List of materials required for gabion glass wall-Site plan showing placement of gabion wall