Savana is a modular anti-terrorism barrier inspired by the natural instinct of animals to protect their family. It is characterised by a strong balance between the heavy part of the eco-concrete base and the light part of the wire mesh. In addition to protecting people, the barriers are benches on which people can sit. Thanks to their iconic shape they can characterize a place, that can become a meeting and socialising point.
The Japanese word Kanso means just that. Simplicity, simplicity, the emptiness of the leftover elements.
This magnetic whiteboard is made following an emptiness concept.
Every day, tons of waste from art and architecture projects accumulate in traditional European glass workshops. 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. With its durable and resource-saving form, it represents a complex contribution to sustainable material design. Its appearance develops great aesthetic qualities even in a small areas.
The Arsenal building, centrally located in the town of Hvar, the most important harbour of the island, has been carefully restored and successfully transformed into a vibrant cultural centre for visitors and the local community alike. The necessary new additions to the building were designed in a contemporary style, thus emphasising the original character of the building. These new components to the building's historical layers have successfully evoked a dramatic meeting of old and new.
cHOMgenius is an innovative construction system for off-grid housing, made off-site, disassemblabile, customizable, flexible, which reuses dismissed shipping containers as a structural system. It employs multifunctional and industrialized components, with environmental certification, dry technologies and earthquake-proof. Thanks to the re-use and the disassembly, it belongs to circular economy.
The first building was completed at the end of 2020, showing the validity and feasibility of the idea
Formerly a military barracks, the Caserne de Reuilly became a property of the City of Paris. As an urban planner on its own behalf, Paris Habitat began in 2013 to develop this ambitious urban project delivered last year. In the context of a highly urbanized city, the Reuilly Barracks now houses affordable and social dwellings, a student residence, a nursery, gardens, and commercial activities. A new neighborhood out of this previously inaccessible area emerged from this transformation.
We transformed a communist type school building whilst creating a “manual” for hundreds of similar schools in our region.
Transformation is both ideological and physical.
Architecture is based on the concept multiplication, communication with all the communities involved, uncovering the old and honest, recycling & upcycling combined with new technologies, arts & crafts shared with young generation, economy, phasing and respect to the values of the 21.st century education.
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Through the regeneration of the Venetian Lagoon brackish marshlands, the landscape project "The Agency of Barene'' seeks to mitigate the threats of relative sea-level rise by providing a nature-based flood defence, restore an endangered ecosystem, invest in alternative slow-tourisms and enrich local economic vibrancy. Simultaneously, it enriches and enhances the cultural image of the lagoon: the diffuse sense of horizontality, reflection and visibility conveyed by the unceasing surface of water.
DVELAS reuses sails and transforms them into beautiful products using contemporary designs.
Sails that travelled for years on boats all around the world are now transformed into useful objects with a maritime past. The idea came up as a creative reaction to finding a new use for discarded boat sails.
This fabric has excellent durability and resistance and develas has found a way to upcycle these sails.
Green suburban residential areas should contribute with more effort to sustainability in the future:
This can be achieved by supporting urban gardening with digital technology.
Digital community greenhouses can be a starting point for communication, learning and harvesting. The digitisation of green spaces is transferred into the private gardens, where a smart phone app helps with watering, disease prevention and other know how. The harvest can then be locally distributed by vending machines.
