The world today has an insatiable demand for plastics, in everything from shopping bags and soda bottles to fast-food and supermarket packaging. While common fossil-fuel plastics derived from petrochemicals (petroleum or natural gas)…
In an age when more individuals are looking for architecturally designed homes and cutting-edge offices and cultural institutions are being built, it’s easy to forget that the fundamental purpose of architecture is to…
Researchers in Spain and Scotland have been experimenting with the strength qualities of modern forms of unfired clay bricks, discovering what have been dubbed wool bricks. They are an almost zero-carbon product that…
When you consider that around 300 million tires are discarded every year in the United States alone, coming up with inventive ways of recycling these into new products and projects is vital to…
While past decades have seen an “every man for himself” mentality as everyone scrambles to make a lucrative living, things are starting to change. There has been a distinct shift in recent years…
Bamboo has been used throughout Asia for centuries as a strong and renewable natural source of building materials for both indoor and outdoor construction. Its strength and resilience have seen it used to…
The Concept: A T-Shirt That Can Speak in Any Language Imagine you are traveling in a foreign country – somewhere remote, where you don’t know the language. You ask where the bus stop…
Long seen as a technology only applicable in the developed world, last year was the first that investment in renewable energy resources was higher in developing countries. Leading the move were the highly…
Passive cooling is a non-mechanical means of cooling homes, using an approach to building design that controls the heat entering the structure and encourages its dissipation. It is a concept that reduces the…
As its name suggests, earth sheltering is a means of using earth to effectively shelter an architectural structure, reducing its heat loss and helping to maintain a steady indoor temperature. While it’s seeing…
