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SAUBERKASTEN is a DIY kit which helps you to make your household not only clean but also more ecofriendly. Our DIY kits provide everything you need to mix up your own sustainable laundry detergent, multipurpose cleaner or scouring cream: easy recipes for at least 10 scopes, proven household remedies like citric acid, sodium bicarbonate or vinegar and useful accessories. SAUBERKASTEN wants to show that it is very simple to reduce waste in your household and that cleaning can actually be fun.

Taking a non-human perspective from satellite imagery, Shapes of Destruction is a collection of sustainable tufted rugs mediating the correlation between deforestation and domesticity. This innovative collection transports intangible patterns of environmental damage directly into domestic spaces, forcing one to confront the aesthetics of climate change and our relational position within the crisis. Each rug comes with GoogleEarth coordinates to its allotted deforested patch in the Amazon.

Eight educational institutions in Cologne's Altstadt Nord district have joined forces to form the "Bildungslandschaft Altstadt Nord". The alliance (five schools, two youth facilities and one daycare center) wants to develop the neighborhood around the public Klingelpützpark into a sustainable educational landscape. In the pedagogical and structural sense, new spaces for future-oriented and inclusive learning and teaching have been created here with the participation of all users.

Every day, tons of production waste from art and architecture projects accumulate in European traditional glassworks. This waste is more than just colored raw material - it is shaped by the visions of many cultural creators. These leftovers are true gems. They live on in the first artistic surface material BASIS RHO. BASIS RHO makes it its business to transfer cultural treasures of the past into the present and to make them accessible in the future in a long-lasting and approachable way.

the project is an experimentation in the field of non-formal learning in the Venice area. It focuses on the dimension of relationship-collaboration, of artistic re-elaboration as tools to try to build conditions and skills useful for moving in the complexity of the contemporary urban context.

acts on the territory through educational practices considered as spaces for the construction of tools for reading and analyzing the territory and forms of intervention on it.

Imagine social tenants with disabilities, stay in their neighbourhood to contribute to the sociale circulair elements in a neighbourhood, in stead of driving to the periferic suburbs to work?

3 buildings provides a space for laundry machine sharing, where activities are organized like washing and ironing, repair bicycles, meetings, etc. to make an inclusive city for all people living there.

At the same time every space is fully designed and built from waste. So: social en technical circular

Solar Visuals is the developer of a revolutionary building integrated façade panel which can transform the built environment into visually appealing electricity-generating power plants. Through an innovative printing technology, our solar panels are fully sizable, scalable and can be customized with any visual design while maintaining high performance. Solar Visuals' panels can help stakeholders reach their sustainability goals by helping to create energy-neutral buildings.

The stands, currently located on a slope of the ground, are located along the long side of the football field.

The new roof is a single linear horizontal element made of metal beams forming a coffered ceiling suspended between sky and earth. The structure, supported by two concrete bearing walls orthogonal to each other oriented so as to accommodate the spectators and direct them to view the field. The structure becomes architecture and the beauty of the work is given by the rigorous form.

The abandoned building facing the main road is detached from the chapel and demolished while the chapel itself is carefully lifted and moved to its new assigned location. A new plaza, with a green area where the chapel is placed, is created on the grounds of the demolished building. Worshippers can safely perform religious functions in this new public space and people can rest on the prefabricated concrete bench under the shade of the Ginko Bilobas.

Repensar la Perfieria is an innovative cultural project based on a collaborative architecture process. It proposes a reflexion around the outskirts of Pamplona, Spain, by questionning the role of culture in these neighbourhoods, the interactions inside of the spaces of the suburbs and their relationship to the center. Moreover, it explores the necessities, requests and issues that the inhabitants of these zones are facing daily, by collectively self-building incubators in the public space.