Articles tagged with: Green Buildings
Posted in Architecture, Green, Technology on 1 September 2008
This is one house that I would really love to own as it seems to combine two of my passions with elegant ease. The Garden House is a perfect combination of environment with sports and when I say I mean a lot more than the boring indoor sports. The Garden House has a roof that is covered by a green blanket and it is not just for the look of it. The green top acts as a mini-golf course and you can have loads of fun and fine tune your shots and angles on your own terrace now.
Designed by ADD+ Arquitectura, the Garden House is a good example of designer houses. The project is designed to be located in the city of Igulada while overlooking the overall landscape. The big glasses all over the house ensure that the house does not have dearth of light and air. The house overall is supported on steel tubes and is quite strong in holding the whole house. Also the interiors are done very aesthetically with wooden flooring taking the overall feel to a new level.
The house is designed to be a beautiful green home and while I really like sports beyond golf and would probably prefer a soccer pitch on top of my roof, I’m pretty sure the folks at ADD + Arquitectura would manage to do that with ease. The house is an example of how green architecture can still produce super cool homes with innovative new concepts that are fun and useful.
Via ArchDaily
Posted in Architecture, Designer, Eco-Friendly, Green, Infrastructure, concept on 21 July 2008
Singapore-the island nation, is a platform of neck-straining skyscrapers. To add to its skyline, world-famous architect Ken Yeang has lent his artistic vision to yet another skyscraper “Fusionopolis”. The latter has been projected as Singapore’s R&D icon.
It will be the hub of local and international talents in the field of sciences and engineering. The scientific research thus carried out at Fusionopolis will power the future industries in the region and transform Singapore into a knowledge-based economy.
The eco-friendly skyscraper will be 1.4 Km high with 15 stories and a state-of-the-art green infrastructure! Ken Yeang, known for his green designs has envisioned a long, continuous vertical run of vegetation which has not been seen anywhere in the world so far.
The vertical column of planting as projected in the design will rise up the building and merge into a landscaped terrace garden at the roof of Fusionopolis. This vegetation cover will be beneficial in passive cooling and insulation hence, provided to the inmates of the building.
The towering structure is designed to effectively capture sunlight by utilizing the refractive properties of prisms (to be placed in its interiors). Yeang (director of Llewelyn Davies Yeang-leading architect firm) has set his eyes on other greener technologies that will be profusely in Fusionopolis’ drainage and irrigation system.
In all the whole building will be a live-ecosystem, one which would be ecologically-viable and sustainable! While the Singaporeans await this super-green erection on a land area of 12,073 sqm, you guys have a look at other green and successful projects by the master architect.
Via: inhabitat
Posted in Architecture, Green, Infrastructure on 18 July 2008
The under construction Community Arts Centre at Greensburg, Kansas is under limelight for being the most talked about green, environment-friendly prefab structure. Its uniqueness and popularity can be judged by the fact that the building features in Planet Green’s documentary series for Discovery Channel! This non-residential building is one of the pioneer structures created among a number of sustainable prototypes for Greensburg and this brilliant Studio804 of the University Of Kansas School Of Architecture has done work. Studio804’s portfolio is brimming with sustainable prefab designs; so, it doesn’t surprises me wee bit to learn that, this Community Arts Centre recently became the first LEED Platinum building in Kansas!
The art centre is being designed uniquely to provide adequate space to support small scale commercial programs and to act as an educational tool for a community who loves to preserve and propagate its cultural heritage via both visual and performing arts. It uses a modular design. Also, it is interesting to note that the building uses a combo of active and passive energy systems. This combination includes water reclamation, cross ventilation and passive solar design. The Community Arts Centre is so planned as to use solar, wind and geothermal form of renewable energy sources to meet its power requirements thus becoming an exemplar of cleaner energy options and sustainability.
Have a look at the exterior and interior of the CAC and I bet you would be awestruck just like me!
Via Inhabitat