The Ekovore collective composter is designed as street furniture. It recycles bio-waste at the foot of the building.
It offers new features in terms of urban integration and comfort of composting.
PLUV / Autonomous rainwater collection tank for allotment gardens
Imagine an affordable building material that shines like porcelain, has a positive impact on your health and safes maritime ecosystems.
When drinking water is produced by desalination, a highly concentrated salt brine is produced as a waste product. Until now, being dumped back into the sea, Salt has dramatic consequences for the environment. Bau.Salz demonstrates the potential of an unused resource: an environmentally harmful waste product is transformed into a high-quality building brick.
The Munoa state and its villa have gone from being the summer resort of an old tycoon to being a space for citizen use and enjoyment. It is a space that has been turned into a place of recreation for citizens and that has been valued by making it a place much loved by the people of Barakaldo. The Barakaldo City Council's primary objective is to open this jewel to knowledge, culture, art, and citizenship.
Sara Cultural Centre is housing the regional theatre, two art museums and the city library as well as a hotel and conference centre. It is a place for concerts, performances, meetings, exhibitions and events and will also have the capacity for large conferences. Sara is built for perpetual transformation with large, open spaces that encourage meetings between people in a welcoming environment. An open living room in the city. All housed in one of the worlds largest and tallest wooden buildings.
Luoghi Comuni is a refurbishment action of two disused places carried out by Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation through direct investment in a PPP. The two buildings provide temporary social housing solutions, where social managers grant a strong social mix among tenants and continuous interaction among guests and with neighbouring intercultural communities. Green technologies, social mix, and quality aesthetics make Dwellings sustainability and innovation best practices in the field.
Revitalizing urban spaces and revealing the cultural, natural and human heritage present on the river bank through "Angers Coeur de Maine" project.
As part of ‘Circular Construction, Conscious Design and Certification’, FAUP participation in Concreta (Portuguese construction largest fair) took as a starting point the theme of sustainability, framing these concepts and concerns in a sense of rediscovering traditions. From the co-construction of the space, with several types of wattle and daub, to the promotions of the practical workshops, the Plaza Alumni FAUP Past-Future was a place of knowledge sharing and dissemination.
Our interdisciplinary design and research focussed on the development of composite materials, as viable alternatives to portland cement based products. The material production and manufacture used local resources and its application in architecture as Facade cladding pannels fits sensitively into the regional context. Our design and research output was shown in Contemporary Arts centre Archipelago.
The new "Degree in Design. Universidad de Navarra" is an experience that fits perfectly within the framework pursued by the "New European Bauhaus wave", it is a teaching methodology that integrates the theoretical, practical, technical, and creative contents, which acquire their whole meaning applied to a project. The students, through the practical and creative exercise of the project, can connect and understand the whole constellation of subjects, ideas and teachings offered to them.
