Modern Underground Modern Underground Homes "As an architect, I'm ashamed of what my fellow professionals and I have done during the last fifty years. What do we do? Look around you: America's best land: destroyed, nature: crushed under buildings and parking lots, resources: squandered, energy: wasted. The saddest part is that we know better and still do nothing about it. Malator Earth House in Druidston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, built in 1998 and designed by architects Future Systems for a former Member of Parliament. The roof of the Malator house is entirely covered in local grasses and the bulk of the home closely imitates the neighboring hills. Malator Earth House is barely noticable from the road. storiesofhouses.blogspot.com Villa Vals, Switzerland. Villa Vals, Switzerland. Aloni, Antiparos Island, Greece. Aloni, Antiparos Island, Greece. Edgeland House in Austin, Texas. Base Valley House, Japan. Base Valley House, Japan. Underground Home in Greek Isles by Deca Architecture. Bolton Eco-House.
competition Honorable Mention 2014 Skyscraper Competition Henry Smith, Adam Woodward, Paul Attkins United Kingdom A cylindrical matrix of super tall structure centered on an electromagnetic vertical accelerator to eliminate the hydrocarbon dependency of aircraft during takeoff. Commercial air travel is celebrating its centenary in 2014 and over the last 100 years aviation has made an unprecedented impact on the way people can experience an interconnected and relatively open world. The future of Aviation is anticipated to rely on energy dense hydrocarbon fuels to provide the power required to make flight possible. An electromagnetic vertical accelerator, utilizing the technological principles developed at CERN’s LHC and maglev train propulsion, provides a method for commercial aircraft to be accelerated to cruising speed using renewable electrical energy sources from ground based infrastructure. The concept is essentially a helical version of the classic urban grid environment.
15 Energy Efficient Designing Tips for Home 15 Energy Efficient Designing Tips for Home Energy efficiency is often the number one concern for home owners. How can you design a beautiful home that still helps you save each month on your energy bill? Listed below are 15 energy efficient designing tips that will give your home beauty and help you save money. Choosing fans over light fixtures. When choosing fixtures for your home, choose to add fans in each room instead of decorative lighting. When designing an energy efficient home, use the tips above to help you.
French architecture firm targets China’s pollution and population problems with cutting-edge ‘farmscrapers’ Solent News/Rex / Rex USA/Solent News/Rex / Rex USA French architecture firm Vincent Callebaut Architects has designed a series of six ‘farmscrapers,’ which they hope will go up in Shenzhen, China. To combat soaring population and pollution problems in China, a French architecture firm is looking up — and going green. Vincent Callebaut Architects has designed a series of six sky-high "farmscrapers," futuristic residential and business towers equipped with wind turbines and solar cells to create renewable energy. "Our view is to turn each constrain into an opportunity and convert waste into renewable natural resources," the company said in a statement. The eco-friendly castles in the sky, planned to go up in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, will measure 1,300 feet high and have 111 floors each. Solent News/Rex / Rex USA/Solent News/Rex / Rex USA Each of the ‘farmscrapers’ will be 1,300 feet tall and have 111 floors. Each pebble-shaped level houses a suspended garden on its exterior.
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The "Go Green" Guide for Industries Achieving energy efficiency by ‘going green‘ has now become the most sought after methodology to not only bring down operational costs but strengthen the customer interest and loyalty towards the company as well. This is the result of the growing awareness amongst common men as they are now keen to ensure that industry operations are contributing to raising the environmental safety – even if they aren’t part of a green industry. Many companies in the manufacturing sector are now under the radar of both governmental legislations and customers to clean up and go green. Here are a few ideas that will enable these businesses to achieve energy efficiency and go green! Eliminate Waste by Adopting Cleaner Production Implementing a cleaner production strategy will help bring down the levels of waste generated through improved process management, good house-keeping, new or modified production process/equipment/technologies and by producing useful by-products. The Power of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”
Nido de Quetzalcoatl - Javier Senosiain Estado de México 2007 El Proyecto arquitectónico se encontró con un terreno irregular de 5,000m2, con topografía muy accidentada, debido a que una cañada con encinos atraviesa el lugar longitudinalmente.Las cuevas fueron colapsadas por el fraccionador por la inseguridad de las mismas, lo que generó depresiones a cada lado de la cañada y en una de ellas una especie de cráter. Palmanova Palmanova (Friulian: Palme) is a town and comune in northeastern Italy, close to the border with Slovenia. It is located 20 km from Udine, 28 km from Gorizia and 55 km from Trieste near the junction of the Autostrada Alpe-Adria (A23) and the Autostrada Venezia-Trieste (A4). Satellite image of the fortress History[edit] American professor Edward Wallace Muir Jr. said on Palmanova: "The humanist theorists of the ideal city designed numerous planned cities that look intriguing on paper but were not especially successful as livable spaces. Along the northeastern frontier of their mainland empire, the Venetians began to build in 1593 the best example of a Renaissance planned town: Palmanova, a fortress city designed to defend against attacks from the Ottomans in Bosnia. The Ideal City of the Renaissance[edit] Palmanova is a city in Italy constructed during the renaissance and it is a city built following the ideals of a utopia. Main sights[edit] The cathedral[edit] Central plaza with Cathedral.
Lofted Forest Home: Organic Curves & Natural Materials Good things come to those who wait – particularly in a work of uniquely detailed and highly curved architecture. Nearly a decade in the making, this structure by Robert Harvey Oshatz is much like a tree house – lofted toward the top of the canopy around it – only bigger, grander, more complex and curved than most any tree house in the world. The perimeter of the structure is pushed out into the forest around it, curving in and out to create views as well as a sense of intimacy with the coniferous and deciduous tree cover. The curved, organic mix of materials continues to the interior of this elevated forest home – a conceptual play on the fluidity and complexity of music (the source of inspiration for the architect and client in the design).
Biomimétisme et Architecture | BiomimesisBiomimesis Voici un tableau regroupant des informations sur des projets en lien avec le biomimétisme dans un esprit de développement durable au sens large, c’est à dire œuvrant pour une réduction de l’empreinte des bâtiments sur l’environnement, agissant pour la préservation ou l’augmentation de la biodiversité. (voir aussi les lectures recommandées sur le thème sur Orgone Design. Les projets présentés ne se classent pas forcement dans l’approche biomimétique mais plutôt dans le bio-morphisme ou l’écologie. Projet de ferme vertical : Frei Otto concepteur du toit du stade olympique de Munich, qui met à profit la notion de surface minimale que l’on retrouve dans les structures des toiles d’araignées. voir également Paul Maymont (1926 à Paris – 20 mars 2007) Biomimicry in architecture and the start of the Ecological Age de Michael Pawlyn, revue de l’article ici (en anglais).
Jean Nouvel Jean Nouvel (French: [ʒɑ̃ nu.vɛl]; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (technically, the prize was awarded for the Institut du Monde Arabe which Nouvel designed), the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008.[1][2][3][4] A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.[5][6] Family and education[edit] Nouvel was born on 12 August 1945 in Fumel, Lot-et-Garonne, France. When Nouvel failed an entrance examination at the École des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux, he moved to Paris where he won first prize in a national competition to attend the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Practice[edit] Pritzker Prize[edit] In its citation, the jury of the Pritzker prize noted: Projects[edit]
Hobbit Houses: 15 Grassy Hill-Shaped Dwellings “In a hole in a ground lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing to sit on or eat: It was a hobbit hole and that means comfort.” This line by J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the beloved The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings fantasy novels, has inspired hundreds of copycat underground hobbit homes around the world – and is itself inspired by ancient Viking hill houses. The World’s First Hobbit Motel (images via: wayfaring.info) For tourists the world over, New Zealand will forever be associated with The Lord of the Rings, since it served as the filming and production location for the film version of the saga. Modern Hobbit Home in Switzerland (images via: toxel) From outside, this home is like any other hobbit hole: half-hidden in a grassy hill, sheltered from the elements and blending in seamlessly with its surroundings. Rent-a-Hobbit-Hole: Hebridean Earth House (images via: webecoist) Hobbit Shed
Eco*Dome « Alter*Native ~ Holistic*Être La Terre c’est de l’Or dans les mains de l’homme sage ! Tout ce qui est carré est Terrestre, tout ce qui est rond est Céleste ! La terre est une matière première ! L’homme l’utilise comme matériau depuis des millénaires pour construire des maisons, même en France. Construire une maison en terre ? A l’encontre des idées reçues, ce système de construction est possible pratiquement partout. Voyage en ma Terre Première La terre possède une caractéristique unique : elle peut être mise en œuvre de façons très diverses. Nader Khalili, le père du concept des EcoDôme Nader Khalili, un architecte américain d’origine iranienne (il a fait ses études en Iran, en Turquie et aux USA), concevait à l’origine des gratte-ciel. Puis, suite à une demande de la NASA, il a élaboré un concept de maison pour les missions spatiales sur la lune, ceci en utilisant le matériau disponible localement : la poussière lunaire. Il reçoit le prix Aga Kahn d’Architecture en 2004. alors que dans les pays occidentaux, Source :
Louvre Abu Dhabi The Louvre Abu Dhabi is a planned museum, to be located in Abu Dhabi, UAE. On Tuesday 7 March 2007, the Louvre in Paris announced that a new Louvre museum would be completed by 2012 in Abu Dhabi,[1] with a revised estimate in early 2013 for a completion date of 2015. This is part of a thirty-year agreement between the city of Abu Dhabi and the French government. Artwork from around the world will be showcased at the museum, with particular focus placed upon bridging the gap between Eastern and Western art. History[edit] The establishment of this museum was approved by the French Parliament on 9 October 2007. The museum will be part of a US$27 billion tourist and cultural development for Saadiyat Island, a complex which is planned to include three other museums, including a Guggenheim Museum[5] and the Zayed National Museum . Design[edit] Location[edit] Architecture[edit] A model of the museum's proposed design The interior of the museum, showing the distinctive domed ceiling Collection[edit]