Sustainable house

Sustainable house designed to maximize the use of natural sources.

Designed by OBRA Architects the Centrifugal Villa is an energy-saving house that maximizes the use of natural sources for sustainability. The house is arranged around a hollow center to increase indoor space and provides a string of subsequent spaces indoors.

Eco homesGarden Ark

The eco home like Garden Ark is to be made available in an easy to assemble kit form and is constructed from natural materials such as FSC-certified wood, soil and grass. The user of eco homes can plant his or her garden on top of the roof to match the surroundings.

Santander Building to be the first zero CO2 office

Solar-powered building designed to be carbon neutral.

Designed by MarioCucinella Architects, the Eco Santander Building is designed to be the first carbon neutral building in Milan. The Eco Santander Building is equipped with 4000-square-meters of photovoltaic panels on its roof, which generates all the energy the building needs to satisfy its cooling demands.
Santander Building

The Eco building is on the outskirts of the city and is raised 13 meters above the ground with piazzas, pathways and green areas below. The carbon neutral building maximizes the use of natural light and ventilation to further reduce the energy required by the eco building

Lightcatcher

Lightcatcher structure to bring in natural light and ventilation to the Whatcom Museum.

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects have designed the “Lightcatcher” at the Whatcom Museum in Seattle, which will add 42,000-square-feet of space to the museum, which will be used to house state-of-the-art galleries for art exhibitions.



The structure is made from a translucent wall, 37-feet high and 180-feet long and captures sunlight to illuminate the interiors in an ecofriendly and energy-efficient manner. The $11.6 million addition gently curves to form a spacious exterior courtyard, bridging the museum’s interior and exterior spaces. After dark the translucent wall glows with changing colors of the structure’s interior illumination

Melbourne Rectangular Stadium

Sustainably designed stadium harvests rainwater and natural light.

Trying to grace the sports world with a green stadium, Cox Architects has designed the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium that combines state-of-the-art engineering with sustainability. The stadium has a bubble-like façade and is expected to be completed in 2010.


The stadium will have enough space to seat about 30,000 spectators and features a unique cantilever design, which coupled with a triangular panelized façade uses 50% less steel than a typical cantilevered roof structure.

The envelope will be composed of a combination of glass, metal and louvers, and the architects are planning a photovoltaic thin-film integration that will help power the stadium’s LED lighting units. The dome will also feature a rainwater harvesting system, natural lighting and natural ventilation to lower the structure’s dependence on grid electricity.

School gets a shipping container sports hall

Sports hall for a school made from recycled shipping containers.

Using old shipping containers as bones for a new building isn’t a new idea in construction, as the advantages of the structure are many. Apart from being easy to construct and maintain, the structure developed is also cost-effective and has a lower carbon footprint than buildings made from conventional materials.


Dunraven School in London saw the advantages of shipping containers and utilized the same to build a new sports hall and gymnasium for the students in just three days. The building was constructed by SCABEL Architects and Urban Space Management.

The recycled shipping container gym was developed at the cost of only £1.5 million, which is about half the cost of a traditional gym. The shipping containers make three sides of the building and the fourth side, which is the entrance, features a translucent polycarbonate construction.

Super city in Korea

Sustainable city to be developed by Fosters + Partners.

Following in the footsteps of Masdar City, a sustainable city to be developed in the UAE, Fosters + Partners have unveiled plans for a sustainable super city that will overshadow the size of Masdar in UAE. Dubbed Incheon, the development will serve as an epicenter for the development of green technologies in South Korea.

The development will be house to over 320,000 residents that will be centered around a spine of transportation and green industry. The city will also become a research and development center for next-generation green technologies. The city is slated to be completed in the next 10-15 years.

Container homes

Homes made from recycled shipping containers.

California-based IC Green Inc. has designed a range of housing units that could well be the next breakthrough in sustainable green structures. The company reuses trashed shipping containers and converts them into a wide range of structures, from 320 square foot studios to 2400 square foot homes.



The company claims that the homes are designed to be architecturally pleasing and affordable at the same time. The structures are prefabricated and include all modern amenities and finishes that can be compared to many high-end custom home designs.

Apart from the shipping container bones, the dwellings are well insulated with radiant floor system, which minimize the energy required by the home. If you need much better systems, the company will also install green roofs, solar and geothermal energy systems for an additional charge.

sustainable library in Kazakhstan

Sustainable library uses computer modeling techniques to lower energy requirement.

BIG Architects have unveiled plans of an incredible library that is to be developed in Kazakhstan. Dubbed, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the library design will be comprised of four parts – a circle, a rotunda, the arch and the yurt. The structure will offset or maximize solar glare depending on the climate and the need.

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The designers minimized the cooling load on the design using some advanced computer modeling to calculate thermal exposure on the building envelope. The overall design of the library makes some parts receive more light than others, which needed the designers to create a geometric pattern of the entire structure to regulate solar gain.

A solar-powered shelter for campers

Self-sufficient outdoor habitat for camping industry.

Mostly all campsites are far from cities and require fuel-eating generators to bring illumination after dark. Industrial designer Benjamin Charles is out there to help the camping and the hotel industry with semi-nomad structures that are almost self-sufficient

Coupled with solar thermal panel to provide hot water for kitchen and bathroom the shelters ensure that your camping vacation isn’t a threat to the ecosystem. To give more autonomy to the campers, the shelters are equipped with dry toilets, which save a lot of precious water.

KEYBOARD CHAIR

An innovative chair designed from discarded keyboard keys.

Dante Bonuccelli and Lamn have come up with an exceptionally innovative eco idea of designing a stylish and modern KEYBOARD chair created from discarded keyboard keys. This incredible eco “text-ile chair” is a great idea saving on things that would otherwise go for a waste.

li and Lamn have come up with an exceptionally innovative eco idea of designing a stylish and modern KEYBOARD chair created from discarded keyboard keys. This incredible eco keyboard “text-ile chair” is a great idea saving on things that would otherwise go for a waste.


The eco keyboard chair is said to be comprising of 40 different keyboards. Though not much has been talked about the degree of comfort this chair has to offer but it definitely looks like a good piece of furniture that one can flaunt.
The eco keyboard chair is said to be comprising of 40 different keyboards. Though not much has been talked about the degree of comfort this eco keyboard chair has to offer but it definitely looks like a good piece of furniture that one can flaunt.

Greening Germany with a sustainable Eco City

World class Eco City to be powered by renewable sources of energy.

Germany’s Hamburg-Hamburg Harbor has announced the development of a world class Eco City development, which will be designed by Tec Architecture and the global engineering group ARUP. The sustainable development will be home to industry and entrainment facilities.

The development will use the latest advancements in green design and will be seeking to achieve the highest level of environmental certification from LEED, BREEAM and DGNB. Comprising 10 ecofriendly buildings, the complex will integrate green materials and passive design techniques to lower the energy consumption by as much as 30%.

The Eco City will use wind turbines to generate about 10% of the complex’s energy demands and use solar energy for hot water and lights. The roofs of the buildings will be covered in greenery to capture water runoff and cool the interiors.

Ashmount Residence Garden

Ashmount Residence Garden provokes the concept of courtyard living, interior garden keeps your interiors away from peeps and provides fresh air. Ashmount Residence Garden asks us why cut a tree in your backyard?
Ashmount Residence Garden brings space deck when you can use it in the most beautiful of ways to provide fresh air, cooling and above all keeps home away from the awkward eyes trying to get to your interiors?
Ashmount Residence Garden are designed by Ohashi Design Studio, the Ashmount Residence Garden tries to integrate a beautiful sprawling oak tree into an even more beautiful deck.


The fence of Ashmount Residence Garden matches the shape of the tree’s low-hanging branches and the sandblasted glass.
Ashmount Residence Garden provides security and natural lighting to illuminate the interiors in a green way. The indoor garden also facilitates plantations and opportunities for landscaping.