With the aim to make our homes as green as possible, we tend to chose those homes with designs that allows natural sunlight to come-in to minimize the use of energy for lighting purposes during daytime, which is achievable with large windows. However, collecting sunlight and transforming it into a useful electricity is another form [...]
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Modern housing designers nowadays are not concerned about the design itself anymore, but also they are concern about how they can help save the earth through their designs. The Villa Bio by Enric Ruiz-Geli is just one of the modern houses of today that has various eco-friendly features. And one of the Villa’s eco-friendly feature [...]
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With the numerous solar panels that came out in the market, the solar tubes by Solyndra are different and unique. Designed into a series of skinny tubes, the solar tubes have the ability to collect sunlight from all directions. It can also be installed more easily and comes cheaper because the tubes can be installed [...]
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We already heard a lot about solar powered bus shelter or bus stations, but the Project Bottleshop is another unique green architecture that will help us keep the environment safe while protecting us from the direct heat of sunlight as we wait for our bus to ride. Designed by UK design student Aaron Scales, the [...]
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Built at the heart of Osaka, the Asukasa Tree Home is and environmentally integrated architecture that is under construction in Osaka, Japan. Inspired by a sustainable concept, the building has columns contrasted in an interlocking way to support the slabs on each floor. The slabs are then filled with soil for the plants to grow. [...]
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