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Life Reusing Posidonia was a prototype for "hyper-local architecture" on the Balearic islands

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Civil-servant architects at the Balearic Social Housing Institute (IBAVI) created the social housing project as a prototype to demonstrate how using locally sourced, natural materials can reduce a building's energy consumption while also positively investing in the local economy.

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A4 Guide: Financing your Project

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Financing A Project Diagram Let me preface this article by stating I am an architect and not an accountant or a finance professional, but without a proper financial foundation for a project, it cannot happen. Join the Architectural Forum to stay up-to-date with architectural news from Rhode Island and abroad. Let’s connect.

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What Is Photovoltaics: The Ultimate Guide To Understand The Basics Of Photovoltaics

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How a simple phenomenon like Photovoltaics, commonly studied in physics, became a household name is what we will be examining in this article. Photovoltaics is the term used for electricity that comes from the sun’s energy. We will find answers to that each and every question that pops into your head when you hear Photovoltaics.

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What Does it Take to Make Sustainable Buildings? (Part 1- The big picture)

Community Architect

Isaiah 24:5 Energy Use of Buildings One doesn't have to be a Christian to see the power of these words. This article is about how buildings, which contribute about 1/3 of all CO2 emissions, can be made more sustainable. The second will focus on building materials and "embodied energy". But let's take things in order.

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

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Difference between carbon neutrality and net zero Mackintosh Building Glasgow School of Art RICS and YouGov survey 2022 Next generation of knowledge work: hybrid workplaces Data-Informed Design for the User Experience at Work The fluid, sustainable future of retail Designing for Extra Care: What Can Covid Teach Us? Do We Need Libraries?

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The missing link in the epic narrative of "the countryside vs the city"

Community Architect

This article explores this not mainly as a political issue, but also an environmental one and a matter of quality of life and design, including what a Dutch architect has to say about it. The people in the urban areas and those in the rural areas live in two different worlds and they follow different cultures and politics.

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The Re-Discovery of the Outdoors

Community Architect

But TV, air conditioning and office work moved us away from nature until nature became so despoiled and we so alienated that "back to nature" became a thing yet again, along with organic food, bee-keeping and increasing worries about depleted soils, aquifers and climate change in general.

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