The Precollinear Park is a dismissed tramway line transformed into the first urban linear park in Torino. This project, developed during the lockdown, represents the desire for a renaissance and hope for a better future. It represents a renewed consciousness based on the value of green spaces, the importance of social interaction, and the necessity of reinventing the urban environment. A new place for community, creativity, and beauty.
Clint is an essential step towards circular laundry and sustainability that transforms waste into new material and advances zero waste. Clint is innovation, collaboration, talent, and strategic alliances between the leadership of GirbauLab and the creativity of Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering.
A society lives or dies because of its ability or not to adapt and change. Its authenticity is nothing without sustainability. The challenge is how to maintain and improve a way of life without destroying the qualities that defined it in the first place. Best to Next used art as a means of capturing skills, memory, culture and emotions. This way of designing has increased our ability to feel shared love for our place and the beauty of its nature and moved forward the green transition.
It is time to transition from an ego-based paradigm, to a new and forward way of thinking. Placing equal significance on the individual, the ecosystem and community. We need a new form of hybrid social & ecological urbanism. And by doing so transform traditional real estate development into holistic contributions to the whole. Common Woods serves as a blueprint for this, nurturing existing ecology, promoting social inclusivity and facilitating a high quality of life.
Community Garden is THE place for authentic interaction in the urban space.
Community Garden is at the same time an urban garden enjoying the benefits of self sustainability and a place for social interaction, high quality debates, exchange of ideas and learning.
The space offers a non-partisan safe space for high quality dialogues and socializing wit all the types of members of our city's community.
Community Garden is both urban gardening and community in one.
The social rental properties in the Gentiaan neighbourhood are part of a protected cityscape. After 100 years, the houses (270 units) were in need of large-scale renovation. The houses have been insulated, modernised and connected to the heat network of the municipality of Amsterdam. As the first ever housing complex in Amsterdam, this neighbourhood will no longer use natural gas after renovation. The renovation secures the cultural heritage for the future.
The building industry is considered to be a major polluter. Plasterboards are a widely-used multi-billion-euro business. By infusing aerogel, the number one thermal insulator in the space industry into gypsum plaster, we developed a new generation of "Maestro plasterboards" with special properties such as: low thermal conductivity and lightweight. These features facilitate thermal comfort, energy and space savings, as well as lower transport emissions. With a sector this large, every bit helps!
Embossed wood - is a research project aimed at exploring the potential of a certain embossing method for solid wood. The technique offers an easy and cost-efficient way of producing textured solid wood surfaces with various functions. Textured wooden surfaces can have many applications varying from visual expression to more technical qualities such as friction or weather proofing. Adding such features to wood makes this popular and sustainable construction material even more versatile and allows
During an earthquake, mobile systems, furnishings and equipment, that set up the environments, can either become obstacles and barriers that aggravate the danger conditions - or, conversely, represent a possibility of salvation in case of collapse.The project S.A.F.E., has been aimed at project development and implementation of “anti-seismic" systems, smart and "life-saving" furniture in case of earthquake, for schools and offices.
The CO2 storage capacity of timber will be decisive in achieving climate neutral construction. Thus, forest conversion plays an important role in responding to the emerging demand and stressors indicated by climate change. Only a holistic modelling of demand and ecosystem capacities can ensure ecologically stable, yet productive forests. Here, the knowledge transfer project "Coupling Ecosystems" provides the basis for informed decision making and effective action.
