Before, my thoughts about eco-friendly architectures limit to the materials used, building process and the like. This time, as I read the information about the Great Barrier House, eco-friendly architecture will not only be considered as eco-friendly with the materials used and the process practiced in building the structure. The Great Barrier is a modern …
We all know that cardboard is an eco-friendly source of materials. You do a lot of things from cardboard and this include furniture pieces, art pieces, home decors, and even architecture. The packed cardboard pavilion is one of the great examples. Designed by students from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Packed is the output of Min-Chieh, Dominik …
Eco-architecture can be the best option for architects to help save the environment. Joining with those architects into green architecture is Mikuo Studio who had an eco-friendly proposal of Bottrop Higher Technical College built in Germany. Located in an urban area and with a quiet residential neighborhood, the Bottrop Higher Technical College will have a …
Victims who lost their homes is a common problem when it comes to natural calamities like hurricane, flashflood, typhoons, earthquakes and more. To minimize the heartache seeing those victims who sleeps un pleasantly on calamity areas, more and more designers have shared their talents in designing emergency shelters, and to minimize these calamities from happening, …
Emptied milk cartoons are normally discarded and destined to our landfills. This act brings no good to the environment. However, this may not be the issue anymore because, 5,000 of the local elementary students in Spain were able to collect 50,000 boxes and built the Castle. This sustainable castle was hailed as the record holder …
The moment the vertical city will come into fruition, people living in slum areas of 23 De Enero Caracas will definitely be minimized if not eliminated. A British Architecture Collective Desitecture designs the 180-story building structure that will house retail hotel, apartments, social housing, local administration and offices and more. The structure will be having …
U.A.E. has been known of its tall and modern skyscrapers and today, this known city also joins the other cities around the world in building not only tall and modern buildings but also buildings that will not benefit its residents but the environment as well. The Marina and Beach Towers by Oppenheim is a modern …
When we hear of tower, concrete materials instantly registered into our minds. However, designers from Institut fuer Konstruktion und Gestaltung (KoGe) have developed an eco-friendly tower for the Carton Plein exhibition in Paris made entirely of cardboard. With a height of 10 meters, the cardboard tower uses the simple folding principle. The reason behind the …
Producing Biofuel is now another form of alternative in saving the environment. The eco-pods by Boston architects Howeler, Yoon, and the LA based digital designers Squared Design Lab simply informs the public that micro-algae, a bio-fuel can be possibly grown in a vertical form. The pods will be arranged by robotic arms, which are powered …
An architecture firm from Charlotte, North Carolina called Little Diversified Architectural Consulting has turned a vacant parking lot in Dallas into a self-reliant eco-city called the Entangled Bank. The reason of it being self-sufficient is its features that include a green walled citadel that has solar panels, agricultural field, and a greywater treatment and recycling …
