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34 Projects 12 Journals 4 Publications

About Discussions Projects34 Journals12 Publications4

Sustainable design addresses the environmental and social consequences of the built environment. Designers in this space work to reduce material waste, lower carbon footprints, and create buildings and systems that can endure without depleting resources.

The community explores innovative material strategies like timber construction without adhesives, speculative visions of future ecosystems, and conceptual frameworks for architecture that responds to climate change and environmental degradation.

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Pamela Veselinova1 work

BRISSA PAOLA JIMENEZ ZERMENO1 work

fatemezahra and 2 others

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Issathies residential complex

Issathies was a mother in our minds whose every unit was her child and its inhabitants were all a family: Children who make shared memories in this house today to create a better tomorrow for their family and country. This journey in the definition of spatial bodies led us to create a small place in the heart of Issathies.

Burak and 2 others

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Genesis v.2

Genesis v.2 takes the natural Crater forms on Mars to create a base for the future housing colony. The units are adjustable and can fit in different dimensions of Craters with minimal footprint. The project shows the incomplete quality of newly developing knowledge towards the future and establishes a system that might adjust to new scenarios.

Mahlaqa

BEYOND "LIVING"

Social Housing for Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Workers in Urban Bangladesh that rethinks the living space for the lower-income working community according to their demands and generates co-living as well as income generation for every household.

Reza and 2 others

Flower of the Desert

Choosing arid climate and Following Biomimetic design, we came to across a plant that lives in the Namibia desert, Welwitschia which is extremely sustainable in Arid areas and lives about 1000 to 1500 years. The unusual form of this plant keeps the soil under the plant cool and moist. The thick leaves lay on the sand surface and prevent wind erosion aswell.

Yashvi

open air shopping centre

The design combines sustainability and business efficiency to offer more than a Retail complex by bringing additional activities to make the place much more attractive for a large audience. Open air shopping center to create an efficient, sustainable environment which will establish connection with its surroundings.

Hamid and Mohammad

Healing Trees

Healing Trees was conceived as a new connection between humans, Koalas and existing nature. A healing place filled with light and greenery, encourages a spirit of involvement, co-creation and collaboration.

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Team MIMO Builds a Glue-Free Timber Housing Prototype for the Solar Decathlon in Wuppertal

A compact two-storey research building made of solid wood modules tests how minimal material impact can yield maximum communal output.

Green Building

Eco Building

Vasilii Rodin

publishedStory3 years ago

Sustainable Architecture Concepts for a Changing World

From reducing pollution to creating healthier and more efficient buildings. Sustainable architecture concepts, always present new ways to revitalize the world.

Environmental Architecture

Sustainable Design

Buket Gürbüz

publishedDesign Process4 years ago

ANAMNESIS: to the future

"A Sustainable Urban Prototype" The project explores environmentally sustainable opportunities in architecture by proposing new ways of urban living. Hence, the design becomes a self-sustaining prototype for future of the cities, reshaping both the ecology and the community of the area in terms of both environmental and social aspects.

Sustainable Cities

Environmental Architecture