Eco Build Products

The guys who run FreeGreen, the free homeplan website, are so smart; they could have just hired architects to do plans, and would have had to go to the trouble of deciding which architect to hire; instead they write a brief and run a competition. Now they have the work of hundreds of architects to chose from; established firms with the works in the drawer, young designers hoping to be discovered. But they are not the only ones who benefit; everyone can look, vote and learn from over 400 submissions.

The challenge was to “re-envision the typical suburban home in an ecologically conscious manner that also reflects today’s modern lifesty…Read the full story on TreeHugger
By treehugger.com
Found on the net for you by the news bot

The guys who run FreeGreen, the free homeplan website, are so smart; they could have just hired architects to do plans, and would have had to go to the trouble of deciding which architect to hire; instead they write a brief and run a competition. Now they have the work of hundreds of architects to chose from; established firms with the works in the drawer, young designers hoping to be discovered. But they are not the only ones who benefit; everyone can look, vote and learn from over 400 submissions.

The challenge was to “re-envision the typical suburban home in an ecologically conscious manner that also reflects today’s modern lifesty…Read the full story on TreeHugger
By treehugger.com
Found on the net for you by the news bot

KMA

Mike recently wroteSpace-Age Tech Coming to a Building Near You: Aerogel as InsulationIt is true that it hasn’t been used much as conventional insulation in solid walls, but because it is translucent, it has been used a lot in applications where architects want natural light and a high level of insulation.KalwallputsCabot’s nanogelaerogel between two layers of fiberglass panels and gets R-20 out of a translucent wall, which is certa…Read the full story on TreeHugger
By treehugger.com
Found on the net for you by the news bot

Yet another proposal for putting students in boxes, this time in Le Havre byolgga Architects, “a multidisciplinary agency federated around 3 different personalities with different yet complimentary backgrounds and studies.” …Read the full story on TreeHugger
By treehugger.com
Found on the net for you by the news bot

We don’t show a lot of second homes in the country on TreeHugger any more, but sometimes one just pops out and say “post me” like this one by Sweden’s WRB Architects, found onMocolocoandTrendir.It has been around for a while; it won the Swedish Wood Award a decade ago, but has some interesting features that are notable still.
…Read the full story on TreeHugger
By treehugger.com
Found on the net for you by the news bot

Images fromReardonSmithArchitects viaInhabitatGreen roofs are such lovely things. Not only are they pretty and good for the environment, but they let architects do things that they would never have been able to do before, like build in parks and protected lands such as green belts.Patrick Reardonof ReardonSmith Architects describes a proposed 200 room underground hotel at a golf course in Surrey:

“The question was how to…Read the full story on TreeHugger
By treehugger.com
Found on the net for you by the news bot