Forget about following the yellow brick road — more like yellow brick bike or walking path. China is now scheduled to begin construction on Chengdu Tianfu District Great City, a model city of “high-density urban living and sustainable development,” says Adrian Smith, director of the design process. Great City … [continued]
This year, architects from ALTS Design Office were brought in to take the ecovillage process a step further. Rather than maintain the traditional strict separation between inner and outer, the Kofunaki House brings nature (or the outer) right inside. […]
I recently had the fortunate chance to interview Gordon Gill, “one of the world’s preeminent exponents of performance-based design” and a trendsetter in the realm of net–zero energy and net-positive–energy design. Gordon will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Total Energy USA conference (you can still register for that … [continued]
The oncology division of the US head office of pharmaceutical company Novartis will soon be looking up to the country’s largest transparent photovoltaic roof. Sunways AG announced the news of its largest individual order for building integrated photovoltaics to date. The office building was designed by architectural firm Rafael Viñoly … [continued]
Solar Decathlon 2011, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) solar architecture contest, has wrapped up. While there is an overall winner, there are also winning teams for different topics (e.g. affordability, engineering, communications, home entertainment, and more). All of the winners are below, along with notes on why most of them won.
Who needs 3D movies when a 3D printer is nearby and you find yourself inspired by the inventive spirit?
Build a house for $300? That is exactly what the 300House Project just proved in a worldwide competition to design housing for the poor.
A visit to the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore shows one of those reasons: not because solar shingles or wind turbines sit atop, but rather because the landscape has been transformed into an integral part of the roof.
Article by Amy Hengst appearing courtesy of Matter Network. Termite mounds may look like ugly piles of dirt, but they provide important clues for architects designing energy-efficient buildings. Termite mounds are built six to 30 feet high off the ground in hot ecosystems and are riddled with tunnels at their … [continued]
[social_buttons] Energy Secretary Steven Chu was recently on the Daily Show, with a carbon reduction strategy that is readily applicable: cool off our roofs. Your home or office building has to endure the solar radiation it receives from the sun on a daily basis. Much of this radiation gets transferred … [continued]
