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Mass is More installation reimagines Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion

Deezen

Information tags on both the original and new materials detailed and compared their carbon footprints, and were accompanied by an interactive digital application created by visualisation company Bestiario. IAAC and Bauhaus Earth built lookouts and walkways across the site.

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Hines Seattle Headquarters Building, Washington

e-architect

The Innovative Office Interior Renovation Achieved A 65% Carbon Reduction Through Meticulous Carbon Accounting And The Inventive Reuse Of Building Materials. The project sets a new precedent in low carbon design in the United States and reflects the Firm’s commitment to research and sustainability. photo © Benjamin Benschneider.

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Solar cars will be "normal within 20 years" says Lightyear's head engineer

Deezen

Currently, the Lightyear 0 comes with a high price tag of €250,000. Embodied carbon of solar panels must be cut. Solar body parts also have a higher embodied carbon footprint than their steel counterparts thanks to the materials that need to be mined and refined to create the photovoltaics and their electronics.

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Sweden’s Timber Dream: The World’s Largest Wooden City Awaits

The Architecture Designs

Stretching across an awe-inspiring 250,000 square meters, this undertaking isn’t merely another urban center; it’s a visionary embodiment of sustainable urban living, an immersive experience where nature and architecture coexist harmoniously. They act as carbon banks, helping homes meet green building guidelines.

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The “Mass is More” installation to the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona

aasarchitecture

meter-long diorama showing the path of wood from the forest to the city as a material with carbon-storing properties, An interactive digital application developed by Bestiario, a leading data visualization company, offers a comparison between the environmental impacts of the 1929 Barcelona Pavilion and of the mass timber installation.

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Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion, Washington

e-architect

These strategies include the use of non-toxic, ecologically restorative materials, electrification, and the elimination of fossil fuels, embodied carbon reduction, and heat sharing between the life support and building systems. Instagram & Facebook: Please kindly tag and credit @lmnarchitects. Building Height: 50 FT.

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Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

I think we’ll have a niche of highly crafted, highly efficient, low carbon footprint homes is the goal. He looked at the carbon dioxide levels going back hundreds, literally hundreds of thousands of years compared those to known surface temperatures based on radioactive carbon dating. Yeah, exactly.