• Solutions for the co-evolution of built environment and nature

    NEST

    NEST - Natural Eco-System Tiles

    Barcelona, Spain
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  • Interdisciplinary education models

    Klasse Klima

    Climate crisis in art and design teaching via a decentralised interdiciplinary university network.

    Berlin, Germany
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  • Buildings renovated in a spirit of circularity

    Social innovation

    How circular economy helps defavorised communities ?

    Milan, Italy
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  • Products and life style

    Potential energies

    A solar shower, a natural limestone air cooler, and a brushwood-powered oven

    Paris, France
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  • Preserved and transformed cultural heritage

    ADAPTATION OF THE RIDING SCHOOL "STIFT"

    Adaptation of a monument (riding school) for social housing and accommodation for seniors

    Senec, Slovakia
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  • Solutions for the co-evolution of built environment and nature

    Holiday village

    Contemporary environment mixed with local culture, traditions, and folklore

    Sozopol, Bulgaria
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  • Buildings renovated in a spirit of circularity

    Open production hall for BC Materials

    Open production hall for BC Materials

    Brussels, Belgium
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  • Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design

    NUR-HOLZ

    Glue-free wooden social housing

    Weert, Netherlands
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  • Mobilisation of culture, arts and communities

    PARADIGM SHIFT

    circular transformation of a department store

    Darmstadt, Germany
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  • Reinvented places to meet and share

    Social reconstruction in post-emergency

    Community-focussed urban answers for traumatic experiences

    Florence, Italy
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    Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design

    Solar Visuals: Energy-generating façades

    Fully customizable, visually appealing, energy-generating façade panels

    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Solar Visuals is the developer of a revolutionary building integrated façade panel which can transform the built environment into visually appealing electricity-generating power plants. Through an innovative printing technology, our solar panels are fully sizable, scalable and can be customized with any visual design while maintaining high performance. Solar Visuals' panels can help stakeholders reach their sustainability goals by helping to create energy-neutral buildings.
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    Freiburg Town Hall

    Freiburg Town Hall – World’s first public net-surplus-energy building

    Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
    In 2017, the city of Freiburg saw the completion of a new ecologically sustainable home for the previously dispersed city administration. The world’s first net-surplus-energy energy building is more than just an administration hub. The new ensemble is integrated in the green space between Eschholz Park and the University Hospital with his main entrance vis-à-vis the existing building. The newly created the square opens up of at Fehrenbachallee thus creating an additional attractive public space.
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    VeluxLab

    VeluxLab: An Innovative, Active, Cognitive Building

    Milano, Italy
    VeluxLab is the first Nearly Zero Energy Building (NZEB) of the Politecnico di Milano and the first Italian Active House. It is an open experimental unit designed through an innovative methodology and circular approach to managing the construction process, starting from the design phase to production, operation, and maintenance of a truly intelligent and active building. VeluxLab integrates aesthetic, design and technology, focusing on comfort, energy, and environmental building criteria.
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    Smart Multi-Energydistrict Nieuwe Dokken

    ‘Nieuwe Dokken’ in Ghent has integrated an innovative circular system in a newly built urban distric

    Gent, Belgium
    Environmentally conscious building is an important anchor point for the City of Ghent and sogent in the redevelopment of the Ghent old dockyards. The cooperative DuCoop was created to exploit & set-up new circular concepts. By using innovative technologies to close the loops of energy, water and resources, the carbon footprint is drastically decreased. Residents were engaged early on to participate in DuCoop, creating transparency, ownership & social equity in the neighbourhood.
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    Let's make our materials green again

    Opening the construction sector to beautiful, natural & healthy building materials

    Brussels, Belgium
    The construction sector is the lifeblood of our European economy. It provides employment and prospects for millions. Yet, aren't the most beautiful buildings those that make one with the environment they're in? In the last decades, too few homes were truly built sustainably. The industry is unfortunately responsible enormous amounts of pollution, raw material extraction, toxicity levels. With Natura Mater we're paving the way for truly sustainable homes - made with low carbon materials.
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    Synthetic

    Synthetic, action research on the challenges of production in the digital age

    Le Mans, France
    Synthetic, created in 2012, is the École supérieure d’art et de design TALM-Le Mans’ action research experimenting with robotic techniques on a large scale with a design methodology. The research has been engaged in an overall reflection on the challenges of production in the digital age: questioning the impact of digital production methods on work organisation in the field of art, design, architecture and engineering. 
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    Hoppet preschool

    Hoppet preschool

    Hisings Backa, Sweden
    The Preschool Hoppet is a building and innovation project aiming to be completely carbon-free. All decision regarding materials, design, and location on the plot, is based on the climate impact. This resulted in 70 percent less climate impact than a comparable project. Even though the design is based on the goal of achieving the lowest possible climate impact, the architectural height of the work has not given way.
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    Blade Made Design Process by Superuse

    Blade Made Design Process for Playground Wikado in Rotterdam by Superuse

    Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Blade Made is a circular economy strategy by Superuse, where the waste of the wind energy sector is transformed into public furniture like seating, playgrounds or bus shelters. This specific example shows the first Blade Made project by Superuse, a playground in Rotterdam. By reusing the carbon emissions are reduced up to 90% compared to a standard playground. The striking aesthetic of Blade Made playgrounds stimulates the imagination of children and facilitates social interaction.
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    MaxAcht

    Baugemeinschaft MaxAcht

    Stuttgart, Germany
    MaxAcht sets new standards for the building of tomorrow: CO2-neutral creation paired with a socially affine and flexible living space design. Buildings in the future will need more than just energy-efficient operation- Re-use and recycling scenarios must also be considered so that resources remain available for future generations. MaxAcht already gives solutions for today´s problems in building. Initiative and responsibility become the driving force behind change.
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    PULRON Thermoplastic Coating

    PULRON Thermoplastics Coating - anticorrosion metal protective coating

    Nitra, Slovakia
    PULRON Thermoplastic coating provides to metal ultimate protection against corrosion in exterior. It last for decades without any changes in quality, colour and gloss. Material is environmentally friendly, easy to use and easy to repair. 
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