Originality, Ingeniousness, transparency and delicacy are all words that describe the Meijie Mountain Resort Villa. It won the WAN Awards in 2017 and the jury acknowledged it as the benchmark for sustainable design. The resort is immersed in the heart of Longtan Forest, the city’s most beautiful natural spot. Four natural elements were combined in […]
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Temperature rise all over the world is becoming increasingly urgent and the french architecture firm Arep was looking to address this problem. In large cities with hot climates, temperature records are broken every summer as they continue to rise year after year. And which are the resources an average citizen has to fight against unbearable
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When thinking of becoming more sustainable, a few recurrent concepts pop into our heads like ecological impact or CO2 footprint. I suggest the reader to go one step further. What if instead of minimizing our impact on nature we tried to blend into it? Biology is the world’s greatest technology and that’s what it makes it such
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Looking for a very simple way of healthening up your home? We are constantly bombarded with information about how important it is to keep a healthy indoor environment. Some requirements could be good air quality, look out for toxic materials or avoid EM radiation. The thing is that many of the measures we need to
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If I say the words “bee-home” most of you will automatically think of a hive but did you know that the majority species are solitary? Solitary bees don’t live in colonies, don’t have a queen and don’t produce honey, which makes them particularly under threat because most bee-friendly initiatives focus on honey bees. Green&Blue Studio
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he biggest innovations don’t always call for fancy technologic developments, sometimes the solutions we’re looking for can be closer to us than we realize. I’m talking about funghi and its recent appearance as a construction biomaterial. Mycelium are the thin root-like fibers from fungi which run underneath the ground. Combined with a substrate made from
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One afternoon during the 40s, swiss engineer George de Mestral was returning from a hunting trip with his dog when he noticed that some plant kept sticking to his clothes and his dog’s fur. When he got home, he observed the plant’s shape closely to understand why this kept happening, and he saw that it
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