A pragmatic upcycling idea which features the transformation of Albini Group production waste and by-products into paper, made with enormous respect for the environment and people. FUTURA is a project born thanks to the collaboration between ALBINI_next and Fedrigoni, a leading European manufacturer of special paper for packaging, graphics and art.
Facade works at Project House building in Floriana, Malta had two objectives, that of giving the head office of the local Public Works Department, a modern, corporate look corresponding with its surroundings whilst upgrading its energy performance ie. respecting its context while keeping pace with the times.
The IDEAL project converted a conventional chemical industry site into a vibrant industrial ecosystem, through the retrofitting of abandoned lands into a microalgae production and biorefinery unit. The project implemented the circular economy concepts and enabled local synergies between the old and the new industries, including effluents recycling, benefiting the local environment and the communities in the long-term. The industrial symbiosis led to the creation of jobs and sustainable growth.
Located in the heart of Brussels, Fontainas promotes transformations in environmental regeneration and pedestrianization of the city center as a multiscale complex project. It redefines the void left by the demolition of the Philips Factory, reassuring guidelines of biodiversity, sustainable development, responsible water management and soft mobility. The project assembles solutions of openness and inclusivity in habitation, green spaces and the support for activities and public meetings.
It is known construction sector in general and, building materials particulary have one of the largest environmental footprints. In 2009, Bambusa Estudio born with the aim of showing bamboo as a sustainable nature-base alternative material for industrial sector and particulary for construction.
Bambusa is spanish technical office which provides comprehensive services of outdoor and indoor bamboo structures design, consultancy, construction and workshops on bamboo construction techniques in EU
Cooking history is a project about recovering traditional recipes, using season products, produced localy and ecologicaly. In this project a young person cook with an older person, promoting generational exchange.
This project is about culture, youth, learning, promote volunteering, sharing and being ecologicaly awarned. The resoult of the project are, 12 videos, one per each month of the year (you can find them on Youtube with more than 10.000 views), and a recipes book.
Now more than ever, L’Étoffe de l’Europe® (The Fabric of Europe) embodies the material woven together by European nations, using the 27 flags of EU members. The data weaving is that of the European construction from 1957 to 2022 and beyond. It symbolizes the sense of belonging of the EU’s 450 million citizens while expressing their cultures' diversity. It embodies a Europe formed by the interweaving of ties, relations between nations, flows of people and goods, and information exchange networks.
Located in Sarfannguit, a cultural landscape in West Greenland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2018, the Fjeld pavilion by Konstantin Ikonomidis is designed to celebrate and promote the Inuit intangible cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of the environment. Characterized by the two fjords that meet on Sarfannguit’s eastern tip on the hills, the pavilion’s location has been carefully chosen by the local community, site manager Paninnguaq Fleischer-Lyberth and architect.
The R2C project's main objective is to further strengthen our connection with nature using contemporary cultural and creative scenes of Hungary and Serbia and our mutual cultural identity represented in the rivers. Historically, rivers are not only a main source and center of life, but carriers of meaning for human interaction. This project will bring the rivers and their use in the focus, and involve a local society in creating platforms and interventions in the settlements of both countries.
