Green Architecture particularly building houses with recycled cargo containers is starting to become a trend in almost all countries. If you were to travel around the world, you will see one or more homes, satellite offices, and even bulti-unit building built with recycled containers. This method will not only minimize the growth of landfills but …
Shipping pallets are known to be discarded after its useful life. However, in my place we sometimes reuse it in rebuilding our fences, which is very easy to build as shipping pallets comes in uniform design and sizes. All you have to do is to put them together. However, I-Beam was able to create a …
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 …
Re-purposing buildings is an eco-friendly act and allows people to have modern homes without harming the environment. The Medusa Group is one of the eco-minded architects that transform the old granary in to modern homes. Instead of wrecking the old structure, which obviously turns out to be a great addition to our landfills, the old …
Modern housing designers nowadays are not concerned about the design itself anymore, but also they are concern about how they can help save the earth through their designs. The Villa Bio by Enric Ruiz-Geli is just one of the modern houses of today that has various eco-friendly features. And one of the Villa’s eco-friendly feature …
Building a home is now becoming affordable, easy and sustainable. The House Arc by Joseph Bellomo is just one of the great examples of today’s prototype. The designer’s successful Bike Arc inspires this wonderful modular house, and is designed for off-grid living. This modular home is made from tubular steel armature and is seated above …
The Refract House is an 800 square foot zero energy home created by a hundred of students from Santa Clara University together with the California College of Arts in participation to the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The refract house has a designed like a bent tube to allow the entry of light inside …
Green and eco-friendly house does not only limits to its building process and materials use. The concept itself can also be a great feature for a house to be eco-friendly. One great sample of that is the Cook+Fox house that is also called as the reptile house. It was being called this way because of …
Barney New York has recently opened its seven-floor, 90,000 square-feet LEED certified building. This only means that numerous companies are no doing their part in helping to save the environment. This new space of Barney New York is a good example. Aside from it being LEED certifies, Barney’s new space is also using a plant-laden …
Right at the heart of New York City, people are expected to be more aware of the modern designs than with the environmental effects. However, you will definitely be surprised with the homeowners Dominique Camacho and Gary Hirschkron that turned a synagogue into a beautiful penthouse that they now owned. The couple kept the eco-friendly …
