Watervilla de Omval
This tautly designed houseboat floats in the Amstel river of Amsterdam. The design has, unlike most floating houses, a very contemporary design without losing the characteristic appearance of the typical houseboat. The clients get a lot of positive rea …
A hat for a home.Living in movement
The primitive act of settlement which culturally defines the relationship between humankind and nature is historically represented by two archetypes: the cave and the tent (the hut). As O.M. Ungers writes, “architecture has two fundamental typologies: …
area 122 – sustainable way
presentazione/introduction Sustainable way text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Green Economy text by Corrado Clini Urban Texture, climate and energy text by Sergio Salat scenari di architettura/architectural …
Sustainable way
There are terms that simply define objects or situations, others that merely describe characteristics by turning them into adjectives, and some – and this is by now universally recognized for the term “sustainability” – that are capable of revealing am …
Green Economy – economy growth & climate challenge
The matter of the climatic change The challenge of two degrees centigrade It is a known fact that all countries agree on one goal, namely to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in order to limit the future increase of the global temper …
Urban texture, climate and energy
In contrast to modernist urban planning, which tends to uniformity and repetition of simple oversized objects, the morphological textures of historic cities combine a high degree of fractal scaling structure (meaning the texture shows complex patterns …
UDP Central Library
The Diego Portales University is a non-profit private organization that has been founded in Chile 27 years ago. It is located in the center of Santiago, in an area called Santiago Sur Poniente. The area was picked because of its strategic location: it …
Niio-Knaw
Two of the existing three branches of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) will be housed in this building. The complex will comprise a main building with laboratories and offices, and various subsidiary buildings such as greenhouses. It wi …
Green Energy Laboratory
The cooperation agreement signed in November 2007 between the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Protection of the Territory and the Sea has resulted in the construction of the GEL, acronym of the ‘Green Energ …