ArchShowcase Archive for the ‘Sustainable Design’ CategoryBroken House near Katowice, Poland by KWKpromesMonday, June 27th, 2011Article source: KWK Promes arch. Robert Konieczny The building is located on the outskirts of Katowice, near a forest, on land deteriorated by 4th category mining damage, where tectonic faults are a possibility.  How a House may Balance on Sinking Ground
Architects: KWK Promes arch. Robert Konieczny O’ Mighty Green by Beatriz RamoMonday, June 27th, 2011Article Source: Beatriz Ramo Sustainability currently shares many qualities with God; supreme concept, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; creator and judge, protector, and (…) saviour of the universe and the humanity. And, like God, it has millions of believers. Since weWwW humans are relatively simpleminded and suspicious and need evidence before belief can become conviction, Green has come to represent sustainability; has become its incarnation in the human world. But sustainability, like God, might not have a form, nor a colour…
 Eco-Pantheon, Rome 126AD The NYBILLBOARD in Brooklyn, Staten Island by Prechteck ArchitectSaturday, June 4th, 2011Article source: Prechteck This proposal seeks for a way to add a new horizontal layer to Manhattan. An elevated link between towers, separated from traffic and noise, filled with public functions, bicycle lanes and walkways. The groundarea covered by towers will be given back to the public by integrating its roofs to the grid of linking walkways, elevated gardens and public facilities and, as a unique aspect, it introduces public life into the skyline of Manhattan.
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Hoto Fudo in Yamanashi, Japan by Takeshi Hosaka ArchitectsThursday, May 19th, 2011The project was planned on the site with Mt. Fuji rising closely in the south and the two sides facing the trunk roads. This building seems to belong to such nature objects as mountains and clouds. It is made from soft geometry, which will not arise from the figures like quadrangles and circles. By continuously operating innumerable polygon mesh points, we have determined the shape that clears the conditions such as the consistency as shell construction and the undulations that ward off rainwater in spite of its free geometry. The RC shell with cubic surfaces creates such spaces as 530 square meters of seats, 140 square meters of kitchens, and 50 square meters of rest rooms, in such a manner that it envelops and opens them.  Hoto Fudo
Grafting Buildings onto Trees by Live Architecture NetworkThursday, May 19th, 2011More than a century after the initial dream of MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and his team at Media Lab’s Smart Cities group, the EIT (Ecuador Institute of Technology) discovered the secret for a perfect balance between nature and the built environment. Three decades of experiments in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest and 420 billion in governmental funds were spent to arrive to this sensational discovery.  Grafting Buildings onto Trees
New Residential development in Lagos, Nigeria by Marco Acerbis ArchitettoThursday, May 19th, 2011Article Source: Marco Acerbis Architetto The project objective is to create a safe and warm residential environment protected from the outside world where it is possible to enjoy quiet and leisurely living overlooking Lagos lagoon and where tropical climate conditions are mitigated by correct building shape and exposure to the elements. Large window openings with elegant external shading structures are envisaged to allow for good quality natural light.  Aerial View
Science Building Addition at Eastern Michigan University designed using Bentley MicroStation and Google SketchUpThursday, April 28th, 2011$90 million science complex design focuses on sustainability and energy efficiency. Modernized facilities will aid EMU in training Michigan’s next generation of workers in the sciences. YPSILANTI, Mich., Feb. 23, 2011 – A spherical planetarium/classroom at the top of the glass and brick exterior of a new five-story building with metal sunshades, a green roof, and a rain garden act together to provide a dressed up entry to the western edge of the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) campus. These features are all part of the $90 million, energy-efficient addition to and renovation of the Mark Jefferson Science Building, a green design and construction project pursuing LEED silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council and designed by the Ann Arbor, Michigan, office of architecture firm Lord, Aeck & Sargent.  The new addition to the Mark Jefferson Science Building at Eastern Michigan University dresses up the western edge of EMU’s campus. (c) 2011 Curt Clayton
The Solar Spiral in Chicago, Illinois by ShortList_0 Design Group (designed using Maya and Revit)Thursday, April 21st, 2011A new approach to sustainable design for mixed use. With suspension of work on the Chicago Spire, Lakeshore Drive’s new icon, the Chicago Architectural Club postulated “the bursting of the real estate bubble has left many architects without work, and a number of building sites within the city sit incomplete or abandoned.  Solar Spiral SW Perspective
Nordhavnen Pixel City in Copenhagen Denmark by HTDSTUDIOWednesday, April 20th, 2011This community was developed with the idea of life as a focus from the inception of the design process. Great emphasis was set on carefully balancing and integrating residential, cultural, commercial, recreational, naturalistic and institutional elements of this masterplan. A holistic approach to both micro and macro organization were seen as being crucial to this ultra livable city.  Nordhavnen Pixel City ©HTDSTUDIO DESIGNOFFICE
UCSD Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility In La JollaWednesday, April 20th, 2011SAN DIEGO — (April 19, 2011) — McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has begun construction for the new 196,000-square-foot, five-story Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility located on a 3.3-acre site within the School of Medicine campus at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, Calif. The project team is targeting LEED Platinum Certification.  UCSD Biomedical Facility - (c) Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects
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