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"According to legend, the Cieszyn Land was conceived in a peculiar way. Because when God decided to create it, he did not say a word, but smiled and that divine smile was to arise ..." - Gustaw Morcinek.
The project "Legendarny Trójbój" and its results ("Legendary powerlifting") were established  in an equally peculiar way - it was a series of workshops that had one thing in common - legends and tales related to Cieszyn Silesia based on books of Gustaw Morcinek and Józef Ondrusz.

The design solution is based on selling soft drinks without water, which is the ingredient that represents more than 90% of the solution and that favors single-use packagings. In a society where drinking tap water is available to everyone, you can imagine to experience a new drinking model where people can convert that water into a drink at any time through small tabs in their own personal reusable bottle.The system operate on the entire life cycle of soft drinks, eliminating disposable plastic.

How to sustainably remove toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from our environment? The chemical group PFAS is found all around the globe in soil, water, wildlife and people after years of industrial activity and wrongful waste-management. The project Packing Up PFAS offers a solution by transforming the PFAS polluted soil into clean bricks and other ceramic materials. All that remains of their dirty past is the stamp that states the location of origin and amount of PFAS removed.

O-Soil comes from Our Soil, which is an indicator of its locality. It is our material because it has our resources: our soil, our fibers, our seeds, and our hand's labor put in it. It is thought for our land with its geological and atmospheric conditions. Consequently, there is a material's formulation for each place. 

Biodegradability and closed loops are the mindsets, likewise the commitment to the regeneration of local ecosystems for the thriving of all species. 

This building is located near the city center of Guimarães, classified by Unesco as a World Heritage Site. It is a single-family house from the 1930s. The intervention proposes the demolition of everything that is superfluous, keeping only the original construction and the rehabilitation of what characterizes it, giving back to the building its essence, but with a contemporary vision of rehabilitation and sustainability, in the use of materials, techniques, resources and local knowledge.

The Temple of Food is an urban Food production hub that worships nature and praises humanism.
The proposed system works on the basis of a circular economy re-establishing a closed nutrient cycle, making the new structures essential parts of each city.

Temple of Food Video:
https://vimeo.com/429057490

The Queens Centre sports complex is located near the Bellver woodland in Bonanova, a neighbourhood in Palma de Mallorca. The centre has been created to serve Queens College.

The design of the building and its architecture allows for an optimization of energy resources and a minimization of the building’s energy consumption while incorporating sustainable materials and high-efficiency facilities.

The architecture of the building has been designed by the architect  Alfonso Reina Ferragut.

[sci]mmary is a design concept that uses a digital platform to make current research results available to people without a scientific background. By using artificial intelligence, complex scientific content is adapted to the user's level of knowledge. It enables long texts to be packaged into concise core statements, context-giving images to be generated from texts, and interwoven worlds of science to be depicted through interactive representations.

The aim of the project is to spread in the citizens the key role of material and immaterial cultural heritage, sustainable agriculture, natural diversity, soil fertility, water management and their transformation chains; • experiment and develop agricultural practices, production chains and social organization according with the principles of sustainability as defined by the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

As a central element of every kitchen, worktops shape the character of the entire room. Beside that, the worktop has to fulfill high standards in terms of functionality. Fundermax worktops stand out as they are highly resilient, easy to clean, extremely durable and the core is made of 100% recycled core paper. Thanks to their surface quality, they prevent the spread of bacteria. The high pressure laminates (HPL) can be processed with millimeter precision, s