‘Scientific Center,’ Project by Kois Associated Architects
Kois Associated architects goal was to create an artificial elevated dreamy landscape which combined functionality with aesthetic poetics, a centre which will be the landmark and the backdrop to the city. The emirate of Umm Al Quwain is located just 40 kilometres from Dubai, and is a place of rich history full of ancient villages and archaeological sites, which contrasts Dubai’s architecture.
The project site, located at the fringe of the proposed master plan.The program of the project called for a hybrid of a scientific centre and a conference centre. The scientific centre would promote the sciences and inform about the latest advancements in technology. The conference centre would accommodate conferences and conventions from all over the emirates and the rest of the world. The centre includes conference rooms, library, planetarium, learning centre, lecture theaters, science exhibition spaces, restaurant-bar and shops. The concept was the fusion of three iconic phenomena associated with the dessert, the oasis the whirlwind and the mirage. Read More…
Beach House at the Harbor by P + P Architects
P + P architects has designed a project consisting of 92 public housing and 140 accommodation units for students at the North Port of Aarhus. They used materials that refer to the port environment, such as: rusted corten steel, hardwood and concrete. The facade of the building is cladded with corten steel.
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Tena Tower Project at Tena Lakes, Burkina Faso by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Tena Tower Project by architect Manuelle Gautrand is mainly up-market residential, and proposes to mix different type of housings with a hotel, offices and a lot of equipments like a swimming pool, some restaurants, a SPA-fitness place, a conference center, sports facilities (Golf and tennis club).
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Eco-Silicon Valley in Bejing, Project Eriksson Architects
This is the design by Helsinki-based design studio, Eriksson Architects for an Eco-settlement in the Mentougou Eco Valley in China. Currently awaiting permission from the Chinese government, the project still has to step over legal red tape. Once done, this will be an Eco-Silicon valley in itself and will use different types of raw materials, unlike the conformist architecture, making the city unique.
The city will span a 100 square meters and will include nine environmental research institutes and companies, one city center and several smaller residential villages with enough roof for 50,000 people!
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“PreVue,” Fetal Visualization Device Concept by Melody Shiue
Melody Shiue, an industrial designer of the University of New South Wales has designed a product called, PreVue. It is an e-textile based device that employs latest stretchable display technology over the abdominal region, letting other family members to connect with the fetus in its context. Read More…
Department Store in Uppsala, Project by Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter
Building permission has been granted for Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekts‘ new department store in Uppsala, Sweden. Read More…
Boston Treepods Project by nflux Studio
In an effort to further decrease the carbon dioxide that trees naturally filter out, Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico from nflux Studio in Paris designed the TREEPOD for the SHIFTboston Urban Intervention Contest.
Developed by Dr Klaus Lackner, Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University, this revolutionary process is based on the discovery of the ‘humidity swing,’ a technology that enables the energy-efficient capture of CO2 from air, allowing to close the carbon cycle and creating a valuable product for beneficial use.
The TREEPODS themselves will be made entirely of recycled/recyclable plastic from drink bottles. Based not only on trees, but on the human lung, the design of the “branches” will feature multiple contact points that serve as tiny CO2 filters. The proposed design, giant white and translucent canopies of trees, can be installed among existing trees or on their own. Intere
stingly, the TREEPODS have been compared to “urban furniture”: sleek yet functional design pieces that would fit into any urban environment. At night, the TREEPODS light up in an array of eye-catching colors.
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“The Ark,” by Alexander Remizov
Russian architect Alexander Remizov thinks so — and his prototype design, called “The Ark.” Remizov believes his Ark, designed to be constructed from timber, steel and high-strength ETFE plastic, could be adapted for all kinds of environments and put to a number of different uses, including emergency housing – its prefabricated structure should allow it to be constructed quickly- and hotels. He’s even suggested a variation with a honeycomb-style hull that can float.
A wind power generator that runs through the center of the building would provide power while the outer surface would be covered with transparent solar panels. If the Ark was built on water, as Remizov suggests, he says it could also utilize thermal water energy.
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Tianjin Eco-City by Surbana Urban Planning Group
Designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group, Tianjin Eco-City is 30 square kilometer development designed to showcase the hottest new green technologies and to serve as a model for future developing Chinese cities.
A conscious effort was made not to create a generic city devoid of humanizing features or cognitive characteristics, one that is replicated ad infinitum in cities of rapidly developing economies. Read More…
Self Washing Sink Built in a Dishwasher by AHHA Project
Wouldn’t it be great if our sink got intelligent enough and cleaned up the mess automatically?
Here is the Pure Washer Eco Automatic Sink that does just this.
The name Ahha Project is apropos given that one’s initial reaction to Eco Sink is likely to include a self-administered slap to the forehead and no small amount of pseudo-affirmative muttering. Its a sink that is divided into two rotatable parts, where in one part you put in the dishes, and it rotates away under the counter to wash them. The other part is a mirror image to the first and is ready to take in your next cycle.
Besides being a space-saving idea, the washing technique is Eco-sensitive as well; it functions using only the minimal resources required, based on the space occupied by the dishes in the chamber. There is a cycle for washing fruits and vegetables included as well. What a perfect sink!
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350 Earth, Global Climate Art Project by 350.org
As part of the launch for 350 EARTH, the first global art show for the climate is signed by 350.org, founder Bill McKibben; multimedia hip-hop innovator DJ Spooky; renowned urban artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada; and director of the Santa Fe Art Institute, Diane Karp.
350 EARTH has issued a call to artists to submit climate change design sketches that will be used to create images viewable from space. The designs will be replicated by human beings, assembled like pixels on a computer screen, to create images so large that they will be seen and photographed by an orbiting satellite. The installations take place in over a dozen cities, including in Europe, South America, and seven locations in North America. Each project is large enough to be visible by space, and will be photographed via satellite. The public can sign up to participate in their city, or make their own art.
Most of the art is developed along the line of “gather-enough-people to-form-a-shape (or message)”: for example, a giant “350″ (representing the optimum levels of parts-per-million of CO2 in the atmosphere); a green footprint; or a polar bear created out of hundreds of red tents. 350.org says aerial images will be made available and displayed at the latest climate talks in Cancun starting on Nov. 29.
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Brus Residence by Studio Kois Associated Architects
Studio Kois Associated Architects have just sent us the photos of their last projects called BRUS, a private residence situated in Athenian suburbia designed by Studio Kois Associated Architects (KAA)
The project is sited in a seaside suburban area in East Attica. The concept was to create an uninterrupted route behaving as a connection of the interior and the exterior, manipulated and worked in a dynamic but conscious and recognizable way that moves far from mechanistic logic and closer to stochastic processes.
The route starts with the stepped entrance and folds around the central vertical axis of the building as it ascents to the top, terminating at the plateau on top of the periscopic structure, which encloses the living space. Casa Malaparte designed by Adalberto Libera the great Italian Modernist with its reverse pyramidal stairs leading to the roof patio was an inspiration during the design process. The villa behaves like a moving organism which enabled by light, alters from hour to hour and from season to season. The dark soft and humid turns to luminous, dry, crystalline cold in an unbroken loop.
Underground City in Diamond Mine, Eco-City Project 2020 by AB Elis Ltd
Eco-city 2020 is a proposal for the rehabilitation of the Mirniy industrial zone in Eastern Siberia, Russia designed by the innovative architectural studio AB Elis Ltd.
Eco-city would be constructed of multiple levels, with a huge central core. The main floor would hold parks and recreation areas, with residential areas terracing up around the walls of the mine. Underneath would be space for vertical farms and forests, subsiding on light piped down the central core. An estimated 100,000 people would be able to live in Eco-city, and architects are hoping that it would help to attract tourists to Eastern Siberia. Read More…
X-RAY Mobile Phone by Tokujin Yoshioka for KDDI
Tokujin Yoshioka has proposed a mobile phone with a transparent form and body. Called “x-ray” it is
is the result of a conceptualizing process that explored the notion of a design without a shape. The design was created for telecommunications company KDDI and will be on show KDDI Designing Studio in Tokyo from 19 October.
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Solar Umbrella Project by Constantin Boincean, Ralph Bertram, Aleksandra Danielak
The Southern California Institute of Architecture, announced the winners of the Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition. An open ideas competition sponsored by SCI‐Arc and The Architect’s Newspaper, entrants were challenged to use the competition as a forum for provocative, even revolutionary, reconceptualizations of L.A.’s urban fabric.
Project Umbrella, revolves around large mushroom-like structures called solar evaporators that would not only serve as memorable symbols for the area, but, via a system of black-water treatment and clean-water dispersal, would transform large parts of the city grid into greener and more attractive public spaces. The second prize went to Los Angeles-based office Labtop’s scheme called Greenoplasty, which removes cars from the area through a local rail line and creates a system of lightweight housing on top of the area’s existing warehouses. Third prize went to a team including Buro Happold and Mia Lehrer & Associates that conceived integrated systems for energy creation (including solar arrays and hydroelectric power), waste management, transportation, and water runoff.
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GEOtube by Faulders Studio
Geotube is a building proposal designed by the California based architecture Firm Faulders Studio for the unique environment of dubai. Born from unique environmental conditions, GEOtube is a new kind of urban sculptural tower. Gravity-sprayed with adjacent Persion Gulf waters, its building skin is entirely grown rather than constructed; is in continual formation rather than fully completed; and is created locally rather than imported.
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Ripple Effect Tea Table, Project by Jeonghwa Seo & Hanna Chung
As part of his graduation project for IM masters design Academy Eindhoven, “Ripple Effect Tea Table” by korean industrial designer Jeonghwa Seo & Hanna Chung is a reflection of eastern mentality towards social relationships. They tried to translate the eastern culture mentality into a unique tea table design which offers unique tea drinking experience. They created the water layer on the tabletop to make the ripples.
Proposal for a New Prison in the City Center of Gothenburg by Maria Poll and AnnaKarin Stråhle
Two young Swedish architects, Maria Poll and AnnaKarin Stråhle have made a proposal for a new prison in the city center of Gothenburg suggesting that architecture can be a helping tool in the rehabilitation of prisoners. And that a central location of the prison can help the prisoners get in contact with the society and vice versa, creating a mutual trust between the citizens and the prisoners.
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