Design student Eliza Hague has created a concept for inflatable greenhouses made from shellac-coated bamboo paper to help residents of Jaipur, India, grow their own food. The University of Westminster student has developed a low-cost paper-like material from bamboo pulp as a sustainable and local alternative to the polyethylene plastic sheeting typically used for polytunnels.…
Geoship is a company that creates transformational earth-friendly homes, aims to dramatically alter the housing market. The firm is proposing the creation of domes for social housing that are affordable, energy sufficient, fire and disaster resilient, and extremely long-lasting - with a potential lifespan of more than 500 years. With its cooperative project…
Founded by Nuru Karim, Nudes operates within the realm of cross-disciplinary cultures of art, architecture and computational design powered by digital “making” tools. One of their latest project is the BookWorm pavilion, located in the gardens of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Museum in Mumbai.
The 35-metres-long pavilion winds its way…
Ramboll is a leading engineering, design and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. With 300 offices in 35 countries, Ramboll combines local experience with a global knowledge-base constantly striving to achieve inspiring and exacting solutions that make a genuine difference to their clients, the end-users, and society at large. The Template House project seeks…
Main Office, Sima Agisheva, Dante Borgo and Isabella Eriksson’s firm based in Guadalajara and Göteborg, works within the fields of architecture, urban planning, interior design and concept development. They strongly believe in design as a process, analyzing each parameter of the project as an opportunity instead of a restriction. "Main Office philosophy rejects any precipitation on…
Design studio Tjep and Vaastukalpa Architects have completed a market building that combines Bangladeshi construction techniques with "Dutch flair". The project - to create a series of Village Super Markets in Bangladesh - was initiated by development organization Solidaridad Network as a way to help smallholder farmers, disadvantaged workers and women in rural areas generate more income.
Franks Tjepkema's Amsterdam-based studio Tjep teamed up with local…
Rural Urban Framework (RUF) was born after a long journey through China; it is a research and design non-profit organisation, born in 2005 thanks to the collaboration between architects Joshua Bolchover and John Lin.
It is expected that by 2050 more than 75 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas. The transformation…
Nadir Bucan defines himself as both an academician and documentary photographer. He started to take pictures with an analog camera in 1999 when digital photography had not declared its dominance yet. He used roll films until 2009 and he participated in every stage of photography from chemical bath to printing. His work was published in…
ReGen Villages is a startup real estate development company aiming to build small, self-sustaining residential communities around the world.
The first one is expected to be completed in Almere, Netherlands in 2018. Unlike traditional subdivisions, ReGen villages would be “regenerative”: theorically household food waste will be composted and fed to flies, which in turn…