The Emergency medical containers compound

Residences for medical staff of the center of cardiac surgery at the Hospital Emergency Salam in Soba, Khartown Sudan. The project was born from the idea of recovering some of the hundreds of unused containers lying around your yard and Salam hospital in the nearby inland port of Soba, brought Sudan in recent years as a... 

The house in Tiburon: the sustainable system

The beautiful villa manufacturer has chosen the slope on the north side of the Tiburon Peninsula in San Francisco as a backdrop for this residential project. This project has become particularly important for its innovative architecture to ecology. All materials used in the construction of this house are all materials that... 

Cardboard houses

Something too good to be wasted. Construction of the ecological and economic, which can be used in the form of structural tubes as well as to build solid walls and roofs. If we speak of cardboard houses is generally thought to makeshift shelters arranged by the homeless on the streets or shelters built for play by children.... 

Villa in the countryside between the roses

Surrounded by a romantic rose-garden, a medieval structure in Maremma is the home of an architect and painter in Florence. Who has arranged and furnished with creativity and interpret the character. Surrounded by a nature not yet tamed, the building is set in a medieval tower, which had been joined in later for the local... 

Recovery plan of the former foundry in Modena, a symbol for the city

A large area remained unused for years, perhaps even forgotten, but now attention has re-emerged with the local recovery plan. The former Modena foundries are an important historical site for the background of the city. Place of struggles and rights. Place of death and hope. This area will have a completely different destination.... 

Emily Wettstein Table, a table in the grass

Be green at home contributes to decorate in a natural environment. The integration between interior and green can become so narrow that present themselves in an unusual way within the same piece of furniture. And the case of Emily Wettstein Table, an elegant walnut table, where the shelf is cut vertically by a strip of... 

Smart Lift to reduce energy consumption

The sustainability of houses and buildings not only passes on the construction materials used, but especially by the tools used to produce electricity cleanly, reducing the maximum power consumption. In many of the properties under Italian electricity consumption is also an elevator. In a European perspective lifts represent... 

Solar Power Panels: Solar shingles

Photovoltaic panels to the roof. A new system developed by the American Society SRS Energy. An interesting evolution in the design and integration, to develop a new solution for photovoltaic panels, which take the form of conventional panels. The photovoltaic panels are certainly not new in the solar field. Examples on... 

“CUT’N PASTE”, cup from the bottle

A simple object simple, designed by young designers from Turkey Beyza Paksin the recent contest has just ended, “It’s cocktail time”, organized by Designboom for Peroni. Here is a bowl cut and paste, cut precisely from the classic green glass bottle of Peroni, having finished in the recycling of glass,... 

FOUND FORM, the light is shaped with papier mache

Literally form found because FOUND FORM lamps are shaped and made ​​entirely of cardboard. For the study MORMENLS DESIGN London, the young Dutch designer enin Waelstham designed the form with the use of everyday objects (glasses, bottles, …) and has created such a mold, then covering it all with papier mache,...