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HOUSE VISION 2013 TOKYO EXHIBITION：TOTO・YKK AP / Naruse Inokuma Architects + Azuma Makoto

   The annual exposition ‘House Vision’ is a way to show and communicate new ideas for the future house. In 2013 edition Naruse Inokuma Architects and the florist designer Azuma Makoto participated with a proposal of a bath that rethinks the roles of the garden and privacy. The idea is to invert the traditional characteristic of the green wall to propose a green interior coating, so they create peaceful atmosphere between light, plant and the smell that it gives off.

   La exposición anual de ‘House Vision’ es una forma de mostrar y comunicar nuevas ideas para la casa del futuro. En la edición del 2013 participaron los arquitectos Naruse Inokuma y la diseñadora floral Azuma Makoto que propusieron un baño que replantea los conceptos de jardín y privacidad. En una idea de invertir el concepto tradicional del jardin vertical ellos proponen un revestimiento interior de plantas, creando una atmósfera apacible entre la luz, la vegetación y su aroma que desprende.

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Nigeria’s Cost & Energy-Efficient Floating Schools (by NLÉ)

The Makoko Floating School is an ambitious project that is currently under construction in the water community of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria by NLÉ, a collaborative agency whose mission is to provide architectural change for developing cities. The project seeks to create floating buildings that are designed to serve as educational classrooms for neighborhood children.

The three-story architectural structure, built as a triangular prism, is intended to float on water with a base made of 256 plastic drums. The floating construct is built with locally sourced wood, electrically powered with solar panels, and designed to house about 100 students.

While this first generation of floating buildings is being designated solely as educational center, the project is opening a new chapter in architectural design that can be applied to a variety of facilities for poor communities like Makoko to urbanize efficiently. Because of the project’s green initiatives, each building is more affordable and cost-effective. Additionally, they accommodate for the climate changes that are resulting in the rise of sea levels.

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“Ma Bulle, Ma Plante, & Moi” / Amaury Gallon

    These beautiful bubble gardens recently popped up in the streets of Paris to offer passersby a bit of respite from their concrete environs. Designer Amaury Gallon created each bubble sanctuary with a unique environmental inspiration. One hosts a jungle, while another garden features hundreds of amazing orchids woven into the metal structure that frames these transparent igloo-shaped rooms.

    Estos hermosos jardines burbuja aparecieron recientemente en las calles de París para ofrecer a los transeúntes un pequeño respiro en su entorno diario. La diseñadora Amaury Gallon creó cada burbuja inspirándose un ambiente único. Una aloja un selva, mientras que otro jardín cuenta con cientos de orquídeas increíbles entretejidas en una  estructura de marcos de metal y crea estas habitaciones transparentes con forma de iglú.

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Climate friendly building of the future concept by Foresight + Innovation, Arup

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”Edgeland House” in Austin/Texas designed by Bercy Chen Studio

Modern Beach House on Cape Cod in Truro, MA

More than just a modern beach house, this sustainable 6,200 sq.ft., 7 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms design has all the neighbors Green with envy. Its sustainable features make this contemporary cottage-style house all the more appealing. Located in Truro on a plot overlooking Cape Cod Bay and Provincetown, this relaxed beach house designed by ZeroEnergy Design and built by Silvia & Silvia Custom Builders makes Green look good from any angle. “The Energy Star Certified home features a geothermal wall, zero carbon footprint, and a photovoltaic system which allows electricity produced and not consumed, to be pushed back to the grid,” according to Silvia & Silvia. And this design gives back in more ways than one. The interior – furnished with renewable bamboo furniture and featuring expansive walls of windows for natural lighting throughout – is as pleasing to the eye as it is to the environment.

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MVRDV Architects Proposes Towering Green Micro-City Skyscraper for Jakarta!

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Meant to be a geometrical representation of structural patterns found in nature such as the division of cells in the membranes of a leaf. 

The architects state: Both the formal vocabulary and the structural concept derive from nature. The pavilion is conceived to harmonize with and expand the forest. The form was developed using Voronoi tessellation, also known as natural neighbor interpolation. Analagous to cell division in nature, the geometry of the roof as surrounding membrane was determined by the position of the old and new trunks. The forest was augmented by four steel trees that form the primary structural system of the pavilion. At about five meters, the trunks branch toward the treetop, which forms the natural roof. A secondary glass construction, suspended from the steel branches, encloses the inner space of the green house. 

The Grüningen Botanical Gardens in Switzerland. Designed by Buehrer Wuest.

Sourced from De Zeen Magazine. 

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Best green roof in Bern, Switzerland. 

More travel photos: conradjacob

Singapore’s Marina Barrage

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Villa Topoject by AND