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windswept vegetation, structurally
and visually, like an extension of the
surrounding maritime forest; inside,
there are ceilings made from recycled
cotton, which maximize the acoustics
for the teaching environment, and
occupancy sensors that automati-cally
extinguish the lights if a room
is empty for more than 15 minutes.
Even the flooring material was recov-ered
out of the nearby river.
“During the logging operation
of the 1700s, big pieces of timber
would sometimes fall overboard.
They’ve started to harvest these
timbers from the Cape Fear River,
ten miles away,” DeChesere says.
“We used this wood to build the
floors and handrails throughout the
center. Some of them still have the
king’s stamp on them.”
He is passionate about the
environmental benefits of natu-ral,
drought-tolerant landscaping,
so integral to this green building
process.
“Bringing in foreign plants and
trees, like the mimosa, means that
insects and birds won’t interact with
it naturally, and so the whole eco-system
is affected,” he says. Instead,
he placed an emphasis on leaving
the look and beauty of the maritime
forest intact by preserving the cen-ter’s
big live oak.
“People are displacing nature in
the world. We’ve disconnected the
pathways that animals have used to
communicate and move about the
land, with our highways, develop-ment
and roads,” he says.
“But how do we get people to
care? It’s all about education. Really,
it’ll start with little kids who will be
educated: They’ll understand the
effects of sustainable practices on
the environment, and they’ll ask for
it into the future. They won’t allow
the opposite to happen.”
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