Archive for October, 2010
Amazing Zero Energy School in Kentucky
The new LEED Platinum School in Kentucky was the first zero energy school in the nation. It was Richardsville Elementary, Kentucky. The facility is a cornucopia of green building strategies and efficient technologies with a 300 kW thin-film solar array which can reducing the building’s energy consumption to one fourth of a typical school. The [...]
Category: Design View, posted at: Oct 7th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: energy production, ground source, ground source heat pump, ICF, roof, School, solar, zero-energy
Outstanding Vertical Farm Concept at India
“City and the Skyline” by Anto Gloren and Sayali Athale of Pune, India was the national winner of the competition. It was HP Skyline 2020 Competition to reinvent India’s skyline. The City and the Skyline project is solution for the growing crises of water, housing, food and energy. The concept is a vertical farm composed [...]
Category: Innovation Designer, posted at: Oct 6th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: competition, Hirante Welandawe, housing units, HP, India, Innovation Designer, modular housing, National Winner, Patrik Schumacher, Sen Kapadia
Unique Books Front Desk at Delft University Library
After the devastating fire in the Architecture building that took a portion of the library’s reserve, the school set out to establish a new collection that would consist of the salvaged books that went unburned and a bounty of others newly purchased to replace the destroyed volumes. So, the Delft University of Technology build new [...]
Category: Architecture,College,Library, posted at: Oct 6th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Architecture, architecture students, elements, inhabitat, Library, new architecture, recycled
Futuristic Emergency AirDrop House For Flood Disaster
The Airdrop House, Andrew Maynard and his team’s design solution for emergency housing in emergency cases especially flood disaster. Its can be dropped from standard military aircraft into flood afflicted areas. As the spherical housing kit hits the water, it begins to soak up water and grows into a food-producing, self-sustaining temporary house. The Airdrop [...]
Category: Home,House, posted at: Oct 6th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Andrew Maynard, House, inhabitat, treehugger
Interesting 2 Nest Village Shaded Prefab Homes
Designed by OFIS Architects, 2 Nest Village is a cluster of container-shaped, modern homes for El Paso, TX. The 2 Nest Village units are prefabricated and stacked in a way that optimizes light, ventilation and protection from the desert wind and sun. There are also solar shade for each home that not only keeps interior [...]
Category: House, posted at: Oct 6th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: House, interior, Nest Village, OFIS, prefab homes, prefabricated, roof, Shipping Containers, TX, ventilation
Elegant Wood Wrapped Floating House in Hamburg
German architects Rost Niderehe, design beautiful wood wrapped houseboat. This compact modern home combines prefab construction with an adaptable design to showcase the great potential of floating housing. With their viability through the years and entire neighborhoods of coastal cities have sprouted up. The idea of adaptable housing and maximizing land-use are very appealing notions [...]
Category: Architects,Design View,Home,House, posted at: Oct 5th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Diningroom Design, House, Rost Niderehe
Fascinating Interlace Singapore Residential Design
The Interlace is located on an elevated eight-hectare site, bounded by Alexandra Road and the Ayer Rajah Expressway, amidst the verdant Southern Ridges of Singapore. With about 170,000m2 of gross floor area, the development will provide 1,040 apartment units of varying sizes with extensive outdoor spaces and landscaping. The site completes a green belt that [...]
Category: Apartment,Design View, posted at: Oct 5th 2010, Comments: 1 CommentTags: Kent Ridge, Ole Scheeren, OMA, outdoor spaces, Singapore
Stunning New Taastrup Theater Design by COBE
Designed by COBE, the Taastrup Theater renovation boasts a beautiful multiface skin that insulates the interior while allowing daylight to filter in. The renovated theater also benefits from a simplified program, an expanded floor plan, and increased connectivity with its surrounding community. Taastrup Theater originally an aging concrete structure situated in a social housing neighborhood [...]
Category: Architects,Innovation Designer,Sustainable Design, posted at: Oct 5th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: COBE, inhabitat, Innovation Designer, interior, social housing, Sustainable Design, Taastrup Theater, ventilation
New Sustainable Tower in Soul by SOM
Architectural powerhouse SOM recently releashed a new landmark tower designed by their resident architect Mustafa Abadan for the city of Seoul, Korea. Located in the heart of Seoul’s Digital Media City, the new tower will also feature an incredible living atrium that will provide both light and air to the deller within. It was an [...]
Category: Towers, posted at: Oct 5th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: atrium, interior, landmark, landmark tower, Mustafa Abadan, new tower, retail space, SOM, sustainable systems
Fascinating Cricket Trailer Designed by NASA Architect
Garrett Finney from NASA Architect design a mini mobile home inspired by the tight but efficient quarters of the NASA space station. Its called The Cricket Trailer. He use his knowledge who design habitation module (modul to astronauts eat and sleep) to aplied in his Cricket Trailer design. It was half part VW Westfalia camper [...]
Category: Architecture, posted at: Oct 4th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Architecture, Cricket Trailer, Garrett Finney, NASA, natural ventilation, storage, storage space, ventilation, VW
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