The Institute for Happy Architecture is thought to be established as an applied-research-platform embedded into an academic context (e.g. university) to examine aspects of well-being and happiness connected to the experience and creation of the built environment.
At the beginning of this year a unique concept was kickstarted in the middle of Amsterdam: the Upside Club. The Upside Club is the world's first regenerative, open source, scalable and repeatable retail concept. Here you will find all kinds of solutions to regenerate your daily life. It is a place where regenerative solutions are developed together with the neighbourhood. Where solutions and products are displayed that contribute to greater well-being and a healthy living environment.
Eco Pyramids that reunite people and nature in a symbiosis of an object who provides a healthy microclimate.
Materials, makes the necessary difference in its impact on nature - it is harmless.
We borrowed performance techniques from our ancestors, and asked nature for its blessing, and the Pyramids were design.
Cyprus is currently the leading asylum-receiving country per capita in the EU, and a large number of arrivals are adolescents just before they transition to adulthood. At the same time, Larnaca is known for its diverse natural habitats and honey. Queen Bees pilot program targets unaccompanied refugee girls in that crucial transition phase. We utilize the region's beekeeping as a therapeutic, vocational practice, an opportunity for income generation, and a tool for empowerment.
By the year 2050, Europe is going to become carbon-neutral and the high-speed rail network would replace airplanes. A lot of infrastructure will become obsolete. A great solution is to recycle it by creating energetically self-sufficient communities. Such a project will be a great playground to test out different green technologies before applying them to the rest of the city.
In a nutshell, turning an old airport into a village helps Paris to create a cultural space to kick-start creativity.
You can help us too! Be part of our good will to preserve our resources and the environment, throwing away as little as possible and collecting as much as possible. With your help we can manage waste and provide a cleaner and healthier environment. We meet together on the ground to collect, recycle and reuse waste. Together we can increase the quality of the environment we live in!
Due to renewable energy sources, inner-city power plants will lose their importance in the near future and raise the question of meaningful revitalization and reintegration into the urban context. The thesis deals with the subsequent use of the “Theresienstraße Heating Plant Munich“. Its design goal is to make large parts of the area accessible and doing so, win back an inner-city area for the public with a somewhat utopian approach regarding the constantly rising real estate prices in Munich.
Face traits and facial characterization can be affected by many aspects such as ethnicity, gender, age and different physiognomies, thus affecting negatively the selection of a mask and the search of a “custom fit” by the users.
The project aims to equip current face-masks design with an adaptive fit: the concept consists in an inflatable harness element capable of compensating facial differencies between users by providing a custom, comfortable and safe seal every time of use.
Through the cooperation with the Opera and Ballet Theatre, as well as the cooperation with the Kosovo Philharmonic and the Kosovo Opera. We aim to bring the sense of belonging to Albanians, through beautiful art, that of music and dance. Albania and Kosovo, through our artistic values, which create a society with strong cultural pillars, we will cooperate with the Opera and Ballet Theater to increase the artistic quality of the artistic troupes, perfecting the musical repertoires that there are
‘Unless’ is a project that seeks to create a community sharing collective responsibility of a place from conception to conservation.
