Deezen

APRIL 2, 2024

Next in our Social Housing Revival series we examine Life Reusing Posidonia – a group of 14 dwellings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera designed by architects at the Balearic Social Housing Institute using locally sourced materials such as dried seagrass. Cork boards were also used as acoustic roof panels.

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Deezen

AUGUST 25, 2022

Promotion: architects Joseph Grima and Vo Trong Nghia were among a group of international urban design thinkers who met at the 2022 Living Cities Forum in Melbourne, Australia to discuss the construction industry's material use in a world of finite resources. These short-term interests are most evident in the material flow of pollution.".

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

Photo: Borrowed architecture by Overtreders W. She explains that as our cities become denser and larger, it is important that we develop sustainable processes to deal with food waste and how this can be a great material. So material not only has one life, it has multiple lives," Huang continued. Partnership content.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

In the now-carbon-dioxide-depleted environment, they were losing water fast so needed a better system of sucking up moisture from the soil. The post "We can't detox our built environment by swapping out fossil-fuelled building materials for timber" appeared first on Dezeen. Enter lignin.

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The Architecture Designs

JANUARY 20, 2022

How a simple phenomenon like Photovoltaics, commonly studied in physics, became a household name is what we will be examining in this article. This phenomenon has been a game-changer when it comes to finding sustainable energy sources when the existing fossil-based energy sources are on the verge of depletion. source: azocleantech.com.

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Building and Interiors

MARCH 19, 2022

The Indian building material market has been showing an impressive upward trend for the use of wood in building projects coming up across the country. The sustainability aspect has been an important element contributing to the increasing consumption of wood in the building materials market. CEPT University Workshop.

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Community Architect

MAY 25, 2021

This article is about how buildings, which contribute about 1/3 of all CO2 emissions, can be made more sustainable. This first of two articles will discuss the general challenge, where we stand today and what it takes to make buildings really carbon neutral. The second will focus on building materials and "embodied energy".

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