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Wednesday, September 28, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Dean Kettle, chosen to be caretaker at a new energy-conserving house designed by two KU graduates, poses here in front of his
present home. The house, designed by Mike Fountain and Kevin Daves, is located on the Nelson Environmental Studies Area, a 40-acre tract northeast of Lawrence.
Home uses energy sense
By BRUCE WELLS Staff Writer
A house that would be a home to both man and the environment was the dream of two men.
After about 15 months of hard work on a special class project, Mike Fountain and Kevin Daves, who have since left KU, have their dream designed.
It is an energy conserving, en-
vironmental home, but not just a
home of interior.
In an era when the government spends millions to develop buildings that use solar panels, wind generators and other complex energy-saving systems, they have designed a house that will avoid these expensive methods and achieve similar results.
UTILIZING COMMON sense, Fountain and Daves hope they have designed a house that will use the environment to an advantage without harming it.
The house, which was designed to let the environment dictate its structure, reportedly would use about one third the energy of a conventional home.
Dean Kette, who supervises and maintains numerous experiments being conducted on the land, lives in the house with his wife.
The project began early last year. Fountain and Daves, who were part of a graduate special topics class in the School of Architecture, inspected the condition of a University-owned house on the Nelson Environmental Studies land tract.
Under his supervision are such experiments as small animal population studies, fish studies, tree plantations, honey production, and the use of resin for traps of silver compounds, Kettle said.
A picture of early Kansas architecture, the aged yellow house where Kettle lives is more than 50 years old. Inside, a wood-burning stone provides heat in the winter.
ALTHOUGH THE HOUSE is livable, the students decided the house was too old and worn to merit any long-term investments for reconstruction.
Then came the flash of brilliance for the two architecture students. Why not, they asked, build a new house in which he is employed by KU' An, and they pondered, why not make it a demonstration of energy conservation techniques and a showplace of architecture.
Fountain and Daves decided to work on their dream house as a special project in the School of Architecture. It would be located near the present house on the Nelson land
The Nelson Environmental Studies Area is 410 acres located about four miles north
Pool designer still uninformed on complaints
Ford Bohi, a swimming pool designer, said yesterday that he still was uninformed about complaints and investigations of his professional activities.
Officials of the board said last week that he had received complaints that Bohl was representing himself as a licensed engineer, and refused to give out any more details on the case.
Bohl said he could not get any information from Kansas Board of Technical Operations.
**hom, a pool design specialist for Bohl and Associates, Olathe, recently was contracted by Douglas County commissioners to design a swimming pool for the Lawrence Unified School District.**
Officials of both the Kansas Board of Technical Professions and the Missouri Board of Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors said they had received permission from a company to install himself as a licensed engineer, when in fact he is not licensed in either state.
Boni last week denied the anegations. The Kansas board last week turned its investigation over to Dennis Moore, Johnson County district attorney.
Bohl last week denied the allegations.
and one mile east of the Lawrence Municipal Airport. It is used for experimental purposes through the University's Field and Facilities Committee.
"WE'RE RESPONSIBLE for KU's field research and teaching services," Ken Armitage, committee chairman and professor of biology, said. "It's the only area where we can give our students a chance in experiments. The rest of the areas around there are natural preserves."
After further consideration of the environmental setting at the Nelson tract, Fountain and Daves were on their way to the lake where they had met there, there was still and one, catch — money.
Both students were familiar with the high cost of building an energy-conscious home. Demonstration homes that had been built in the naat were notorious for their high prices.
Understanding the administration's inherent tendency to avoid expensive projects, they set out to design a small, futuristic and efficient home for a maximum of four people. The cost they held to was $45,000.
Fountain said they designed the home to be comfortable and inexpensive to maintain. If built, it will explore the feasibility of providing a larger water supply, emphas being placed on passive systems.
A PASSIVE SYSTEM is one that uses inexpensive, nonmechanical elements for conserving energy. Fountain snail. An active system that converts sunlight, such as solar panels and wind generators.
He said that passive systems, such as natural light and ventilation, utilization of existing conditions such as trees, land slope and water and use of interior and exterior light would help control the climate in the house.
Because they were depending on careful design for maintaining low energy use, Fountain said, they decided to let the environment dictate how the house should be designed.
The building will be constructed on a sloping site that has already been selected, Fountain laid. Two main walls, which will be heavily insulated, will come to a point facing north to ward off cold north winds in the fall.
IN CONTRAST, the southern portion of
the mountain serve as a scoop for southerly
summer wind.
"We started with the idea of letting the elements design the house," he said.
The energy home will have two floors and will be structured around a large, central fireplace. By using a system of air ducts to transfer warm and cool air throughout the rooms, it is hoped that a cheap ventilation system will be achieved, Fountain said.
The building will be built into a slope so that the bottom floor of the north side will be below ground level. The ground floor of the building will be exposed and will have a greenhouse, he said.
After monitoring the home for some time, Fountain said there would be many possible additions and variations that might be used to increase efficiency. They could include complex systems.
On the bottom floor will be two bedrooms and a bathroom. He said both the kitchen and the bathroom would operate by con- tents means but employ water-saving devices.
Fountain said the home would maximize the efficiency of space utilization. It will contain about 1,200 square feet of floor space.
Gould said the escalating costs of construction made it imperative to build the home as soon as possible if costs were to be kept below $45,000.
Robert Gould, assistant professor of architecture, said it was hoped that funding from the KU Endowment Association or other institutions could be found soon so that construction could begin.
Polish film director to visit KU
KU students will have a rare opportunity to see a world-renowned film director and a sample of his work when Polish film *Annaus Majewski* comes to KU tomorrow.
Majewski's visit to KU is part of an artist exchange program sponsored by the U.S. State Department. He will be in the United States for three weeks and at KU for one
Majewski will lecture at several film classes tomorrow. In the evening, there will be a showing of "Loks (The Bear)" one of his award winning films, at p. 7 in 1940.
Richard Coyier, assistant professor of English, said yesterday that he thought this was the first time Majewski's work had been shown in the United States. A combination of political barriers resulting from the Iron Curtain and normal distribution problems have kept Majewski's films out of the United States, Colyer said.
BEFORE THE screening of "Lolika",
be sure to lecture and then answer questions from the audience.
Coyer said Mawejski's visit to KU was a "rare occasion" and it may be another "two years or never" before students have the chance to see Mawejski and his work again.
Majewski's film awards include the best Polish film 1975-1976, the outstanding film of 1976 from the British Film Institute selected for the 1977 Los Angeles Film Exposition and the 1977 Film Festival award from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Two men, one of whom is a University of Kansas student, were arrested Monday night by Lawrence police and charged with possession of marijuana. Lawrence police
When the authors of the Kansan Betas, a history of the first national fraternity at KU, needed information for their book, they went to the archives.
Two charged with pot possession
AMONG THE treasures at the archives are a tape of Former Chancellor W. Clarke Wescongice singing at his last commencement to the tune of "Get Me to the Church on Time," and a photograph of KU's 1917 girls' basketball team dressed in bloomers.
Douglas Slavin, Vandalia, Ohio, sophomore, and Ray Sandals, 827 Kentucky St., allegedly had about two ounces of marijuana in a brown paper bag in the front seat of their car when police stopped them at Ninth and New Hampshire streets, police
Police said they also found a small amount of an unknown substance in the car that might have been cocaine. It will be sent to the KBI for analysis.
Archives store University history
A poster tacked on a bulletin board in the Kansas Union announcing Jerry Jeff Walker's homecoming performance may present resting place at the University Archives.
And 10 years on now, a student looking for clues on what life was like at KU in 1973 may pin that poster and others, and ask them to help answer. You can also archive materials to find an answer.
When G. Bailey Price, emeritus professor of mathematics, wrote his history of KU's mathematics department, he went to the archives.
The archives, in 423 Spencer Research Library, collects fliers, posters and announcements of University events, minutes of university meetings and other University materials.
Besides printed materials, including newsletters and bulletins, the archives has films of almost all KU athletic events and sound tapes from KANU. The recent debate between the Umanian Program was taped by KANU and will be deposited at the archives.
In addition to these records, the archives has boxes of official University records that would stretch a mile if placed end to end. These records are stored by University offices and available only to the office in charge of them.
perimeters, features, science fiction and dramatic films for television.
His most recent award was for the film "Hotel Pacific."
Police said they began watching the car, which was parked at 12th and Tennessee streets, after they received word that the trunk might contain marijuana. The surveillance slavin and Sanders got in the car and drove until police stopped them.
Coyler said Majewski was the founder of the science fiction movement in Poland and he had won many prestigious film awards around the world, including the most outstanding film award at the 1978 London Film Festival.
Both men were released on $500 bond at 8:30 p.m., a spokesman at the Douglas County jail said.
Possession of that amount of marijana is a class A misdemeanor. Penalties range from probation and deferred prosecution to a maximum of one year in jail or a $400 fine.
Coyler said many Americans did not realize the high quality of Polish films.
Since 1961 Majekwaj has made more than 30 films, including documentaries, ex-
Some of the classes offered:
- Smoking Cessation
- Orientation
- Home Brewing
- Internship and Therapy
- Basic Bible Study
- Basic Automotive Technology
- Serial Politics
- Beginner Juggling
- International Weight Control
- Massage
- Creative Fantasy
- Many others
Catalogs are available in the SUA office.
"It's a real pleasure to find what someone is looking for," Sally Atkinson, archives assistant, said recently. "Sometimes it's too difficult to find it." Due to the next till you find what you need.
And when Gayle Tuker, who received a Ph.D. from KU in 1972 and was awarded an Ida Hye scholarship, wanted to write a paper on Hydra, she traveled from Florida to California and met 60 shelves of correspondence. Hyde taught physiology at KU from 1888 to 1920.
John Nugent, archives director, said qualified researchers have access to correspondence and other records if the files are owned by a given permission for the files to be used.
MIKE FISHER, Lawrence graduate student and academic counselor for the Law Department.
for research on his dissertation on KU history between 1960 and 1975.
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