The Refract House is an 800 square foot zero energy home created by a hundred of students from Santa Clara University together with the California College of Arts in participation to the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The refract house has a designed like a bent tube to allow the entry of light inside [...]
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Sustainable housing might be the perfect answer with today’s need of shelter and the desire of eco-friendly structures. Michelle Kaufman Designs is just one of the designers that are creating sustainable and elegant housing. Theie latest design MKLotus has numerous eco-friendly features that include a rain and ground water collection system, grey water system, solar [...]
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Some of the architects worldwide are now in focusing Eco-friendly architecture. Just like the Weber Thompson who designed the Eco-Laboratory for the Cascadia Natural Talent Design Competition. What made the building eco-friendly is that, it includes a rainwater collections system, hydeophonic garden to grow food for the community, biological wastewater treatment system to convert black [...]
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A new British embassy is planned to be built and finish by 2011. Designed by HOK, the building has an eco-friendly concept since it is designed to collect rainwater and stored for the building’s water use and irrigation. The building’s design seems to be very comfortable for the people. Covered alleys gave every embassy visitors [...]
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