EcoDesign

GCI’s has a committment to the principles of Permaculture and Arcology.

Our Chief Visionary Officer, Joseph B. Malki is the grandson of Bernardino Alonso a Spainish architect and engineer who designed and built flatiron building and rail lines in the early 1900’s. Mr. Malki’s vision of ecologically sound human settlements will bring an additional element to GCI’s development plans to include partnership with high density green developers leading the 21st century EcoDesign movement.

Permaculture principles draw heavily on the practical application of ecological theory to analyze the characteristics and potential relationships between design elements. Each element of a design is carefully analyzed in terms of its needs, outputs, and properties. For example a chicken needs water, moderated microclimate, food and other chickens, and produces meat, eggs, feathers and manure and can help break the soil. Design elements are then assembled in relation to one another so that the products of one element feed the needs of adjacent elements. Synergy between design elements is achieved while minimizing waste and the demand for human labour or energy. Exemplary permaculture designs evolve over time, and can become extremely complex mosaics of conventional and inventive cultural systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input. While techniques and cultural systems are freely borrowed from organic agriculture, sustainable forestry, horticulture, agroforestry, and the land management systems of indigenous peoples, permaculture’s fundamental contribution to the field of ecological design is the development of a concise set of broadly applicable organizing principles that can be transferred through a brief intensive training. [From wikipedia.org]

Arcology is a portmanteau of the words “architecture” and “ecology,”^[1] is a set of architectural design principles aimed toward the design of enormous habitats (hyperstructures) of extremely high human population density. These largely hypothetical structures would contain a variety of residential and commercial facilities and minimize individual human environmental impact. They are often portrayed as self-contained or economically self-sufficient. [From wikipedia.org]