With the aim to design the cheapest solar home in the world, IAAC or The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has the Solar Fab Lab House as their Official entry to the competition. The fab lab house has the area of 75square meters and is ideal for a family with 4 members. The house …
This coming June, Solar Decathlon will take place in Madrid featuring various zero emission homes and one of the entries for the competition is the FabLab House. This uniquely designed eco-home is built off the ground, rounded, and is covered with solar panels that will be responsible of collecting solar energy to power-up the FabLab. …
Built to sustain the extreme climate of Northern Canada, the Team Ontario, BC had designed the North House, which is currently in 4th place for the Solar Decathlon 2009 in Washington DC. The house is a solar powered home that has high attention in insulation and glazing system that is in-charge of the houses’ passive …
Sustainable living is easier said than done, but if you will do it through playing with the help of eco-friendly toys like The Green Dollhouse with Furniture by Plan Toys, living sustainably could be a lot easier. Other than teaching kids and kids at heart on how to live sustainably, the toys and play sets …
This PODhouse consists of prefabricated modules that can be assembled to form a nice sustainable micro home. You can place it in the garden or backyard office, even for a secret holiday hideaway, nice isn’t it? Designed by Swiss design firm ROB (Robust Outdoor Brands), this is a great low-impact housing solution that anyone can …
Sintering is kown as producing ceramics, which is known of being a non-biodegradable item but with the Solar Sinter, your lovely ceramics can now be called as eco-friendly. Designed by Markus Kayser, the Solar Sinter is probably the answer in making elegant ceramic décor and house wares without harming the environment.
Eco architecture design can be expensive sometime especially if the designer or architect is into expensive sustainable tools like solar panels, windmills, and the like. However, I still believe that we can create a sustainable architectural design in an affordable way just like what the Farmhouse design in Bangalore by Keerti Designs has. Aside from …
Save on electricity, fight global warming, and make the world a better place to live. These are just a few of the aims that people want to achieve in creating and designing eco-friendly homes. We can find homes claims to be eco-friendly and features different green features. Some have rainwater collecting system to save on …
As the first European Solar Decathlon kicks in, numerous architects and designer submit entries and the Bambu House by Tongji University Shanghai is just a few of the entries. The Bambu House is a solar powered house that has the ability to generate 9 kilowatts of electricity that can support 1 bedroom and 1 living …
Green architecture has been around for quite some time. Some of them uses solar energy or wind energy to support the structure’s electricity need, making them qualified to be classified as green architecture. Some of the structures use recycled materials like PET bottles, recycled lumber, and more in order to be categorized as eco-friendly and …
