Material Selection

Definition

Material selection involves choosing building materials that serve specific functions beyond just structural support. Architecture can resonate biologically through the use of high-dielectric materials and geometric forms that focus energy toward the center, similar to the intentional quality found in stone circles and other sacred spaces.

Key Principles

• And it's really why ceramic geodesic domes is because if you break home building down to like physics first principles like material science, what materials are using, what is the geometry and how are you making it, you know, what's the method of manufacturing
• And really fundamentally, the most low-embodied energy high strength healthy, especially biothermic materials, materials that you can use, the geometry of the geodemic, like, really optimize the amount of materials that are required to, uh, include space, and there's no cross-beams, and it's like, you know, with three-deprinting, different things, it's really a wall building technology

Methods and Approaches

It's primarily focused on the supply side, the cultivation production and processing of raw materials

I think that's a good way to and that basically we're creating a new market through differentiation and low cost and kind of introducing factors that aren't even part of what people think about when they buy homes today in terms of natural materials, natural geometry, village building, holistic wellness, that's kind of ultra efficiency in a long life

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Key Insights

Educational outreach: Some projects reinvest funds into teaching surrounding communities about regenerative materials and permaculture, creating positive impact beyond the immediate project.

Long-lasting materials: Building with materials that last for hundreds of years—healthy materials in structures that include biophilic design—creates sustainable systems that pay for themselves over time.

Energetic properties: Some practitioners focus not just on beautifying spaces, but on tapping into the deep frequency of materials and the energy of how you work with space and the people you bring into it.

Energy manipulation: Some technologies use spiraling materials and specific geometries to move energy in intentional ways.

Function-specific selection: Ancient traditions (like those in Egypt) carefully selected building materials for very specific functions. For example, rose granite was used for energy storage and amplification in energy technologies and healing spaces, while other materials were used for containing energy within spaces.

Examples and Case Studies

And then the rest of the funds go into either building more of these communities and non-profit representative projects so teaching you know the surrounding community about regenerative materials they can use and permaculture and things like that so you can make a positive impact on the project

For example, looking at using different, looking at investing in different kinds of innovative building materials that can be less harmful to the environment, which is not had a good generation stage

Okay, so here in the background is a neighborhood, and the most of the most, the most it's a massive challenge made from the part of the materials, thing to do with the project

Best Practices

• So they would use other materials for amplification and other for containing it within the space
• And then they would actually wear specific clothing and accessories that were complementary to the building materials
• And the materials, of course, were complementary to that
• So structure and form and the materials were all very, very specifically selected

Implementation Guide

To implement material selection in your regenerative village project, consider the following approach:

Implementation details to be added.