#HOSPITALITY #LANDSCAPE #SUSTAINABILITY TECON Architects: www.tecon.ro The building is situated nearby a mountain lake and is configured with two major volumes, taking advantage of the natural form of the site, which presents two major level drops intercalated with two approximately [...]
April 6, 2016
In practice
#SUSTAINABILITY # LANDSCAPE # WOOD DISSING+WEITLING: www.dw.dk ECCO contacted DISSING+WEITLING architecture towards the end of 2011 with an ambitious plan for a center second to none for both ECCO s own employees and external conference guests. In addition to [...]
March 2, 2016
In practice
Kere Architecture: kere-architecture.com SUSTAINABILITY LOW BUDGET PUBBLIC UTILITIES # community The library building forms a joint between the first school building and the extension and thus shelters the schoolyard from dust-carrying easterly winds. The library will be open to everybody, [...]
#SUSTAINABILITY #RENOVATION #HEADQUARTERS RAU architects – www.rau.eu The energy grid company Liander has transformed its headquarters into a remarkably sustainable building and energy positive complex, becoming the first renovation project in the Netherlands to obtain the BEEAM-NL outstanding sustainability [...]
January 23, 2016
In practice
#SUSTAINABILITY #MONOLITH #ENVELOPE Project description The topography of the park environment around the house resembles a cavea of an antic theater. The long horizontal structure is facing the favorable sun orientation and the view in slight opposition of the [...]
December 30, 2015
In practice
#HEADQUARTERS #ENVIRONMENT #SUSTAINABILITY Cepezed architects – www.cepezed.nl Brussels Environment is the government authority in the field of environment and habitat in the Belgian Capital Region. The new headquarter by Cepezed architects represents the biggest passive building in Europe and an [...]
December 12, 2015
In practice
#community SUSTAINABILITY – LOW BUDGET – LOW TECH Tsai Design Studio: http://www.tsaidesignstudio.com/ Set in the picturesque Durbanville wine valley on the outskirt of Cape Town, Vissershok Primary School is a rural school where most pupils are children of farm [...]
September 15, 2014
Africa
#sustainability RESIDENTIAL, ORGANIC, LOW TECH Simon Laws Anthill Constructions: anthillconstructions.com.au here a short video: vimeo.com/74683867 The Lychee Garden is a residential hub for the Halo Group s international design headquarters and manufacturing operations based in and around the once rural [...]
#community SUSTAINABILITY-EDUCATION-PARTICIPATION Construction of the youth center is a result of cooperation between Komitu Architects, a group of young Finnish architects and two Cambodian NGOs: Cambodian Volunteers for Society (CVS) and Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights and Development Organisation [...]
#community SUSTAINABILITY-EDUCATION-PUBLIC UTILITIES The rural ethnic coffee growing province of Chuquibambilla, located in the Central Highlands of Peru, on the western part of the district of Pangoa, is the commercial and cultural center of this region. About 1600 families live [...]