The 1st Active House in Ukraine is a project of a single-family, timber-frame house, realized in 2015 in Ukraine and confirmed in digits by real 2 years monitoring 9 parameters in 3 key areas:
- Comfort of living (daylight, thermal environment, indoor air quality)
- Energy (energy demand, renewables, primary energy)
- Environment (emissions <7 kg CO2/m2 x a, materials, fresh water consumption)
Tulla Urban Farming School is a non-formal education program in Albania, located at TULLA – Culture Centre, established in 2021. Its primary goal is to establish an Urban Farming School that equips young people with the skills necessary for farming and agriculture in urban environments, such as rooftops and terraces. Initially, we began by offering Urban Farming presentations, workshops, and courses that cover the fundamentals of agriculture.
Given the significant influx of young migrants from various origins, we sought to figure out the best ways to facilitate their integration in our schools. In order to fight against discrimination and prevent these adolescents from dropping out of school, we decided to mobilize our students in the design of a multimedia game. This playful and interactive approach has boosted their motivation through an active pedagogy centered on tolerance and equality.
The idea of Uus-Veerenni park is based on sustainability and reuse. The aim was to value, first of all, the on-site material - so the stratification of the former industrial land, such as asphalt and concrete, as well as metal structures, has been cleverly used. This park is most likely one of the first examples in Estonian landscape architecture, where such a large amount of waste has found a new form of use in an exposed manner.
Zuko is a free rental service for mobile street furniture. It allows users to utilize public spaces more easily and flexibly according to their needs. The project transforms the urban space into a mobile living room. Zuko creates more togetherness and sojourn quality in our neighborhoods under the motto: “reclaim the streets”.
Education environment is exceptionally important when it comes to personal development of students. Apart from providing knowledge, it can shape them into being more creative and care-taking human beings. That was the reason why the Green Wall project was created. It transforms a monotonous classroom into a space where the nature is dominant. It brings greenery to the interior and creates visual and emotional bond to nature. It teaches students to take care of the most valuable thing we have.
KITCHEN DESIGN PROBLEMS
- The kitchen is the most expensive space in an apartment house.
- Most of the household work is done in the kitchen, where most energy is used.
- Most of the household waste is produced and sorted in the kitchen.
- 80% of the new kitchens are built in old houses.
- The concept of the present standard kitchen has many demands and no longer fits its purpose.
- Many of its functions, transformability, and energy economy, require a completely new re-evaluation
The purpose of the program “Return to Naturalness” is to inspire and practically guide people to discover their authentic naturalness.
The course program is designed to help us awaken our creativity, discover dormant abilities and affinities, ecological awareness, craft skills and practically train ourselves to live in harmony with nature, shearing that with other people helps developing togetherness and community.
We have created jobs for women and their families in rural communities, giving them the opportunity to do their own business, but we took over legal, tax and marketing support issues from them. We took them "under the umbrella" of a social enterprise.
Our project has created an effective business model for social entrepreneurship, and in 9 months we managed to create the first full-cycle quail farms.The effective business model is ready to be scaled up for supporting people from rural areas.
