The idea is to create a library online which provides 3D models of the most wasted plastic bottles shapes in Turin, Italy. The project aims to facilitate the birth of new project using PET bottles as a module. Know which shape of bottle is wasted the most can help collect and use them.
NATIF talks about the lightweight beauty in everyday simplicity, traveling to the base note of a feeling into a whirlwind of poetic bliss.
The design studio creating a piece of everlasting, minimalist jewelry inspired by timelessness. Founded by designer Annamaria Mikulik, the project of a commercially produced jewelry collection started in 2018.
Jewelry stimulates the perfect cultured movement of the female body emphasizing the sophistication of the woman’s charm.
Wildfires rage throughout the rural territories in the world resulting in severe economic, social, and environmental damages. With approximately ⅔ of the Portugal's territory considered “rural,” the symptoms of current wildfires are a warning of what the future holds for Mediterranean landscapes and their communities. The inter-disciplinary Studio developed at the Harvard GSD was conceived as a “laboratory” focused on rural territories, their disenfranchised communities and overlooked landscape.
Should we stop consuming or start consuming with respect? Green Pea in Turin, Italy is the first green retail park aiming to change purchasing habits. All products for sale are environmentally friendly. ACC Naturale Architettura and Negozio Blu conceived a symbolic Nzeb architecture to give shape to this strategic vision: a highly sustainable building, a manifesto of resilience built with new technologies and natural materials to convey, through architecture, the idea of environment respect.
The project « Un Cercle Immense » aims to make visible the dream of an ideal city in the shape of a circle, imagined in the 18th century by Claude Nicolas Ledoux, architect of the Royal Saltworks. Beyond the desire to make the former salt factory an international and contemporary reference for the creation of gardens, the Royal Saltworks wants to position itself as a laboratory for the landscape professions, combining experimentation, circular economy, education and high environmental quality.
Ina casa is an urban regeneration strategy for the new generation(ages 7-18). It was born from the desire to historically and socially recover an initiative by the State immediately after II World War and diffused all over Italy: INA-Casa. The intention is to rediscover these unique neighborhoods, to understand their history, both social and personal, and in so doing, lay the foundations for a future made of inhabitants of active spaces who are aware of the value of community and the common good
Orti Generali is a project of participatory urban regeneration of green areas located into the Piemonte Park in the neighborhood of Mirafiori Sud in Turin. The aim of the project is to foster social inclusion and community building through urban agriculture. The area in concession could be divided in two sub-area: two hectares of 160 technological urban gardens and the city farm of 1 hectar with farmyard animals and themed gardens for educational and training activities.
This project is a dialogue with modernity: the past and future of brutalist architecture inherited from the last century. It also stands on a thin line between art and spirituality, where everything feels quiet and suspended. Finally, it must be seen as an ode to materiality, where the only rule is to be true, where every matter speaks in his own language. Rethinking this type of building is a challenge that told us a lot about architecture and the economy of means.
The department International Programmes in Sustainable Developments focuses on the development of innovative arts-based, cross-, and transdisciplinary education to meet the current requirements for future-oriented university education on a content and structural level. Its international study programmes connect the topics sustainability, aesthetics, and inclusion on a global level, and equip students with the competencies, skills and abilities they need to tackle the Grand Global Challenges.
Sustainable drainage system (CERSUDS) pilot experience that uses low commercial value ceramics in stock as a permeable urban pavement. This floor allows water infiltration, runoff treatment and water reuse as part of a SUDS. The demonstrator, with an area of approximately 3,000 m2, has been built in a consolidated urban environment of light and pedestrian traffic located in the municipality of Benicàssim (Spain).
