COMMUNITY DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE
Tiamat Center is going to be an exceptional opportunity for architects and builders, designers and gardeners alike to get a full range experience into manifesting functional beauty on Earth.
We've all witnessed how the sophistication of both organic and architectural creations can make for magnificent constructions that amaze the senses, seem to stand the test of time, and serve as powerful catalysts for energetic motion. If it is true that a certain amount of complexity is inevitable when realizing any project, it is also true that too much of it usually screams arrogance and illustrates various degrees of decadence, hallmarks of civilizational hysteria and decline.
Our architectural vision invites simple yet harmonious, straightforward yet elegant designs and means of construction that will fulfill our modest ends. We seek to manifest the utmost natural balance in beauty, purpose, and sustainability.
Indoor and open spaces will be built according to a symbiotic, pragmatic way of living. All constructions will be made out of local materials. Aesthetically and structurally, imagine anything from shamanic and Druidic influences to pyramidal layouts to undertones of Victorian architecture and Art Nouveau.
We plan on developing each and every one of our building sites evenly scattered throughout the land in multiple zones rather than concentrated within a zone 0 surrounded by vast concentric yet uninhabited zones, as is common in modern eco-groups' permaculture designs. The main reasons for this are to guarantee privacy, immersion, as well as the benefits from the riches and diversity of the land.
Individual living quarters should span from one corner of the property to the other and may actually be found nowhere within zone 0 (occupied instead by commonalities like an agora or pyramidal structure as drawn in the second diagram below). Our residents will be found instead in productive and creative zones 1-2 near workshops and greenhouses, in natural zones 3-4 near ponds and forested areas frequented by cattle and horses, or in wild zone 5 - closer to neighbors and cars.
Standard permaculture areas distribution
Should a spread out type of residential setup be too seriously compromised by financial, logistical, land-related, or regulatory issues, we may instead drag our feet to a more circumstantial arrangement like a concentric system loosely highlighting geometric patterns and proportions that would retain energetic properties such as those revealed by researchers like Michael Tellinger to have been commonly used in ancient times for instance in England (Stonehenge), Zimbabwe, Egypt and Indonesia (Lumeria).
For those stimulated by visuals, here are examples of aesthetics in natural designs and landscaping.
Below are examples of existing living spaces that may inspire our own building designs. Feel free to check out this amazing architect's website - network of builders for more.
