Zero Energy Building by Traverso Vighy | Nestled in the wooded hills
Architects – Traverso Vighy Location – Vicenza, Italy Project Year – 2012 Photographs – Alessandra Chemollo, Francesco Castagna More info: Archdaily
Sustainability
Today and in the days to come you can not think of designing without taking into account sustainability. Here we will post on the subject.
Passive House by Rouby Hemmerlé Architectes | Intersecting blocks
Architects – rouby hemmerlé architectes Location – Saint-Clair, France Project Year – 2013 Photographs – Courtesy of rouby hemmerlé architectes More info – Archdaily
Passive House by Engineforce Architect | An articulated building
Architects – Engineforce Architect Location – Okcheon-myeon, Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea Project Year – 2011 Photographs – Kim Yong Kwan, Efrain Mendez More info – Archdaily
Zero Energy House by BLAF Architecten | A wooden cube
About from the Architect: “From the architect. BLAF focuses on the generating capacity of architecture on a spatial, social and ecological level. Urbanism and preoccupation with private property have led to land being consumed to the point that Belgium is now one of the most dense and dispersed areas in Europe. BLAF have since long […]
Lagos’ Wooden Tower (Shortlisted at Plan B: City Above the City)
Lagos is the most populate city in Africa and represents a big deal for architects. City consists of 16 million inhabitants. Situated in the heart of Ikory, the most popular and the richest residential site of Nigeria, Lagos’s tower is the unique wooden structure which is designed to be a smart and sustainable building. The […]
Nearly Zero Energy House by Caraa | A Family house
About from the Architect “The family house is a compact low-energy single-level building with the flat roof. The aim was to create a low closed object – a ring-like building set in the landscape without disturbing the beautiful hilly and woody surrounding panoramas. As the site area is spacious, we wanted to create an intimate space […]
Zero Energy House by Karawitz Architecture | A tiny house
The design by Karawitz Architecture reveals a traditional house which however hides an extremely technological and efficient heart that leads to being a “Zero Energy house, like this other architecture that we already had seen on Archiobjects. The design process of this house has exploited the place and the orientation, it is closed on the […]
Vijayawada Garden Estate – Bring the forest into a tower
The concept is the same of Vertical Forest in Milan by Boeri studio, but the realization is a bit different. Both are great cases of architectural innovation. Sinceraly I love this project, I appreciate very much the modularity and the great use of plants inside the building floors. I believe that it is a great […]
Probably the smartest building in the world – “The Edge”
Probably this is now the most innovative and efficient building in the world. It is “The Edge” in Amsterdam, the Dutch Headquarter of Deloitte. Besides efficiency, what distinguishes this building is also the connectivity, that reaches its full potential when building a smart architecture that is able to integrate data to reduce energy consumption. The […]
Zero Energy House by Snøhetta | Great architecture meets efficiency
Snøhetta has recently completed the ZEB Pilot House – together with Scandinavia’s Research Center on Zero Emissions Building (ZEB partner Brødrene Dahl), and Optimera. This gorgeous house is located in Ringdalskogen, Norway, and it is unique because it’s full of great architecture and fine technology. The principal aim was to expand the ecological awareness in the design process and […]
20 stunning illustrations about climate change
These fantastic illustrations of climate change collected from pinterest account of Expo2015 are very sad. But in their sadness communicate many things, many important things. Climate change is affecting the planet and his effects are facts more tangible than you can imagine and everyone can do their part. Since become aware and stop pretending anything […]
A visual critic about “green sustainability”
How many times we associate the color green to something sustainable? How many thousands of advertisements exist who crave to label as “ecological” perpetually using the color green? But most of all .. what’s the point? The Rotterdam based design team STAR strategies + architecture has created this series of photomontages ironic to criticize this trend […]
