projects list
Peckham Vision 2008
A Garden Piazza with shops and affordable housing above a surrounding mult-purpose building accommodating a wide range of creative and cultural activities (such as music groups, drama, visual arts, poetry and dance).
The Intercultral Creativity & Conference Centre concept features a theatre / auditorium, art gallery, conference rooms, studios, workshops for crafts, library, restaurant, café, bookshop and large concert and dance hall.
The setting for this circular building is a garden piazze with trees, bushes, aromatic herbs, and a pool with a fountain. New affordable flats, maisonettes and shops surround these gardens.
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Eco-Hamlet
A Project which formed an article with design and layout by Jeffrey Gale which was published in the May 2008 issue of The Town & Country Planning Journal.
The concept features a self-build, affordable Eco-housing Development Project baserd at Barracks Hill, Totnes, Devon, comprising 30 homes set in Permacultural edible gardens on residential-designated land.
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Tulsi Trust
A Holistic Hospital & Staff Hostel, built around a Permacultural Ayurvedic Garden Court in Kapsi, near Raipur, M.P. India. Surrounded bu its own food-productive gardens, this new complex is now running as a Holistic Hospital with Doctors and Nurses successfully treating a wide range of diseases.
Being four hours away from Rajpur town, the Hospital needs to be as self-reliant, so as mush food and energy as possible needs to be created onsite. Vegetables, fruits, grains and coes' milk are self-produced and soon we plan to build a biogas plant to transform green wastes and dungs into electrical and gas power, to be eventually supplemented by solar energy.
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Natural Health Centre & Retreat, Virginia USA
Design of a complex of buildings based on Sacred Geometry, including seminar rooms, restaurant, café, tropical garden courts with fountain pods for convection-cooling natural air conditioning, and an ampitheatre for outdoor music and talks.
Eco-accommodation chalets in the landscaped grounds overlook a lake to the South in classic Feng Shui tradition.
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Aphrodite Natural Health Centre & Retreat, Cyprus
Cosmic Eco-Designs for a complex of buildings, situated by the beautiful sea coast, surrounded by olive, apricot and fig trees, with perennial herb gardens useful for natural medicines and oils.
A circular auditorium and restaurant are supplemented by circular and hexagonal eco-chalets for visitors and a meditation. (This Project is at the design stage and is ongoing.)
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Balham, London
A design (with granted Planning Permission) featuring an Eco-Office building designed to maximise solar gain with high insulation and some integrated photo-voltaic panels.
Hemp-lime blocks are used in construction, faced externally with London Stock recycled bricks.
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The Spike Community & Centre, Peckham, London
Sketch designs for additional accommodation for this small creative community which already includes a small auditorium, recording studios, library, yoga room, workshops and staff accommodation, overlooking biodiverse Permacultural edible gardens.
It was designated as a World Peace Garden in June 2008. The Project is urgently seeking help to raise the £500k needed to buy their site.
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Cosmic Eco-Homes
A very early example of a Cosmic Eco-Home plan designed on principles of Sacred Geometry.
There have since been some minor revisions, and versions have been designed for clients.
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Malvern Springs Garden Show 2006
A Cosmic PermaGarden and Water Fountain Sculpture, sponspred generously by the Royal Horticulture Society (RHS) and constructed by our SHHECom team (see the SHHECom website HERE), with the perennial flowering herbal garden designed by Jeffrey Gale.
(Only around 14 special exhibit gardens are selected by the RHS, who also choose a similar-sized shortlist for the special gardens for the annual Chelsea Flower Show. A larger version perennial herbal garden was also designed and built in 2006 with a fountain pool, at that year's Sunrise Festival.)
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Special Designs for World Peace Gardens
(click HERE to visit the World Peace Gardens Network website)
Longmarsh Park
Totnes, Devon
South Hams District Council commissioned Jeffrey Gale in 1992 to redesign this Public Park on Permacultural Principles. Having at that time only recently completed his Permacultural Design Course, Jeffrey was surprised to receive such a a brief so early, but welcomed it as a wonderful opportunity.
The site is a very naturalistic, 12-acre park, made from levelling a landfill site alongside the River Dart. retaining part of the original wetlands, comprising a splendid wildlife attraction.
From Totnes, one sees first Zone 2 as a mowed-grass recreation walking playing area, which then merges into a wildflower meadow, then trees and bushes interspersed with footpaths, finally reaching Zone 5 which is a dense coppice mixed woodland.
Fruit and nut trees were included in schedules of the original designs - but apart from some hazlehut and wild blackberries, few were planted. However, since 2007, Totnes Transition Town (click HERE for the TTT websitre) volunteers have started to plant nut trees within the site, and this continues through 2008 with fruit and nut trees.
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University of San Diego
California, USA
A World Peace Garden was designed in 20065 for the area outside the Peace centre in the University Campus.
Glencree Centre for Reconciliation & Peace
Wicklow Mountains, near Dublin, Eire
An edible Permacultural Garden was designed by Jeffrey Gale in 2003. All the plantings are perennials, trees for fruits and nuts. Lawn areas are dwarf clover to nitrogenise the soil and need less mowing than traditional English lawns. There are seats backed by honeysuckle and jasmin hedges, overlooking a peaceful fountain in a lily lotus pool.
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London
One of the Research Hospitals of London University. A World Peace Garden was designed by Jeffrey HGale for the roof over a Yoga & Natural Health Centre at the Hospital. It comprises mostly perennial flowering and useful herbs and bushes.
all locations are in the UK unless otherwise stated