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Ten projects in which architecture and design try to make the world a better place, transforming what is already there or inventing new solutions.

Re-generacija collective, Friendly enemy. Urban Harvest. Photo Nataša Košmerl
Ten ideas to show how architecture and design can contribute to environmental sustainability creatively experimenting, recycling and transforming abandoned places, waste materials or underutilized resources.


– Solar can provide a productive and environmentally friendly use for defunct golf courses, characterized by expansive land mass, high sun exposure, and a low concentration of shade trees.

– Resulting from a collaboration between Nienke and Xandra van der Eijk the project Natural Seawed Dye is a dye process with colours obtained from seaweed that can be fixed with salt with no need for water.

Re-generacija collective proposes to use invasive plants as a local source of cellulose in the future, the process has been showed at MAO – Museum of Architecture and Design in Lublijana.

Paperscapes is the last result from Dear Human exploration into paper-made objects that function as furniture, lighting, and wall treatments thanks to a sculptural approach.

– On the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro Patricia Erimescu built a library without any electric tools, using only locally traditional methods and innovating them step by step, with the active participation of the inhabitants of the village and the parents.

The Mile, a design for a one-mile high vertical park and observation deck will be the world’s highest  construction. Carlo Ratti Associati presented it at Cannes’ MIPIM 2016.

– One of the latest transformations in Doha, Qatar, is the opening of a new park stretching inland of West Bay, that exceptional sequence of public spaces structuring the city’s presence on the sea.

– Installed at the foot of Mt Blanc, this living module equipped with all the essentials required to live well is a way of showing live on the Internet over a 12-month period how to live in a zero-energy house.

– In the Dutch city of Nijmegen Frank Marcus conceived a pavilion to host beehives as to connected oval spaces, shaped as the atomy of a body of an insect.

 

Top: Re-generacija collective, Friendly enemy. Urban Harvest. Photo Nataša Košmerl

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