vivihouse

Prefabricated, modular and demountable

The result of four years of research by the Sustainable Construction Department of the TU Wien & TU Graz, the Vivihouse is an

Blue planet

World Water Day 2023

The risk of a global freshwater crisis is "imminent", warns the United Nations (UN), in its introduction to the Water Conference which opens

The metabolic house

William Stumpf

Wishing to offer an alternative to the consumerist concept of American baby boomer kitchen, William Stumpf, a designer best known for his research

Biodiversity in crisis

Annuel Report - ONB

The National Biodiversity Observatory (ONB) has just published an alarming annual report on the state of nature in our territories: "Biodiversity in crisis". 

Water sanitation status

An alarming report

"The world is facing an invisible water quality crisis that reduces by a third the potential economic growth of heavily polluted areas and

Social house

quality of use and architectural

At the request of the government, the working group on the architectural quality and use of social housing has just released its conclusions

Unseen unknown # 5

Tour d'habitation 1958

Before Swiss women gained the right to vote, the second exhibition on women's work (Saffa) was opened in Zurich on 17 July 1958,

Ni vu ni connu # 3

Venturino Ventura

Venturino Ventura is an Italian rachitect, representative of the Italian rationalist school, born in Florence in 1910 and died in Rome in 1991. Known

Like a tree in the city

Carbon storage

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French timber sector

Economic weight

The French timber industry, half of whose added value is in the construction sector, now has an economic evaluation tool available online. The latest

Unseen unknown # 6

The Feuillette House

English veThe straw house built by the engineer Émile Feuillette in 1920 is the oldest known and existing straw insulated building in Europe.

All renewable energy

German researchers demonstrate that the renewable energy is possible and no later than the current carbon system. 100% renewable scenario, based on a self-sufficient power and a realistic technical potential is based on the following distribution at the national level: 170 GW wind land, 85 GW offshore wind power, 200 GW of PV, 130 GW of solar thermal.

Radical architecture # 1

Promoter of green architecture, close to the radical Architecture and Land Art, James Wines began as early as the '60s, research on the

Wood skyscrappers to come?

Limited so far to mid-rise buildings, timber construction takes off. Several projects are currently working on constructive solutions that would build tall buildings

The hybrid lighting

Transforming sunlight into interior light

The company echy created by two young Polytechnique School of Bridges and Roads, has patented a new lighting solution for capturing sunlight outside

Urban living Earth

In his latest book, Michel Lussault examines the new ways of inhabiting the world face a unequivocal urbanization. What are the "imaginative forces"

Case Study House # 1

House NA - Sou Fujimoto

Situated in a residential area of Tokyo, this 3-storeyed house answers at the request of his(her) owners: " live at home in nomads

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Shishi Odoshi House

Shishi Odoshi House is located in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Nantes. The Avignon- Clouet agency was tasked to prouce an extension

Case Study House # 3

Eames House - CSH n°8

Thrown in 1945 to John Entenza's initiative, editor-in-chief of the magazine Arts and Architecture, Accommodates him Study House Program had for objective to

Air pollution

Singled France

Over 80 % of Europeans are exposed to particulate levels higher than those recommended by the guidelines on air quality issued by the

Green Loop

New-York

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For sustainable building 2030-250

Reporting

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Japanese stations go green

Agricultural urbanism

Japanese society Soradofarm has partnered with East Japan Railway company to install urban farms above stations.  An idea to return to the Grand Paris?

Ecological transition in Japan

Ecocities program

Faced with the small size of its territory, an aging population and its strong energy dependence , Japan has implemented a program to

Landscapes of the city

Front de Seine

In this article, the author conducts a comparative study on the development of the city landscape, analyzing, 50 years apart, the discourse that

Bio-region

The local project

Appeared in Italy in the years in the early '90s, around the work of Alberto Magnaghi, Territorialist School seeks to reconcile development and

Case Study House # 4

The snail house - Guy Rottier

Guy Rottier After collaborating with Le Corbusier on the draft of the Radiant City to Marseille (1947 to 1949) , Guy Rottier paths takes

Case study house # 5

From the Pirate bubble to the Bois-le-Prêtre tower

After several unsuccessful housing requests with relevant departments of the city Geneva, Marcel Lachat decided to implement the "noise bubbles" Jean-Louis Chanéac hanging

La Samaritaine

A cancellation which says length...

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Integrated territorial development

While the Government has launched an experimental program on the revitalization of town centers in France, the Lyon Urban Community launched a broad

Energy - Climate

Report Cour des comptes

The report of the "Cour des Comptes" on the implementation by France of the package energy-climate : a complex and with difficulty readable politics

Display the pollution of its city in 3D

To choose its route in town according to the pollution? Tomorrow, will be enough a click on its smartphone and the map in

The fertile city

How to combine the urban development in the agricultural production in some images?

The nature in town

Two interesting studies on the nature in town and the urban ecosystems: > Cities Alive of the agency ARUP, > The nature in town, IAU

Metropolitan representation

A necessary inversion of the look

Being a member of one of 15 interdisciplinary teams of the Atelier du Grand Paris, Béatrice Mariolle, architect and town planner, suggests restoring a

Case Study # 6

Kevin Low | Placed architecure

Kevin Low is an architect of Chinese origin, installed in Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. Designing the architecture not as a product but as a

Rethink wood

Construction bois

Over the past several years, a number of tall wood projects have been completed around the world, demonstrating successful applications of new wood

The sanitary internal cost of the air pollution

19 billion € by year

19 billion euro: it is the cost which would represent the pollution of internal air in France for given year. Realized by the national

Repowermap

A GIS for the renewable energy

Repowermap.org is an initiative of raising awareness, introduced by the European Union and the WWF, which tends to promote the renewable energies and

Change points of vue

Local Development

Within the framework of the current debate on splits French, Daniel Béhar, geographer, returns on some preconceived ideas. It is necessary to finish it

Le bien commun territorial

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Tree or not trees ?

A purifier of air for building sites

Students of the Utec of Lima (University of Engineering and Technology) invent a device to clean up the city and the construction sites.

The climate in question

The researchers speak

The CNRS(National Centert for Scientific Research) opens a Web site dedicated to the questions on the climate. > More information

ZAC Boucicaut

Label Eco-district

The project of the Urban Development Zone Boucicaut received on December 18th, 2014 the label Ecodistrict awarded by the Ministry of Housing, the Equality

Job & bike

The mileage allowance

The mileage allowance incites the employees to take their bike, according to the conclusions of an experiment and a study led by the

Andrea Branzi

The architecture in question

Andrea Branzi wonders about the current situation of the architecture in one interview published in Télérama. " The architecture does not produce more either testimony

HQE Infrastructure

Sustainable roads

lWhile the Norman Forster agency in London draws, over railroad tracks, air bicycle paths, Certivéa in France proposes a new reference table HQE

The green city of tomoroow

What stakes for the real estate?

The Pulpit Real estate and Sustainable development publishes the third number of the Exercise books of the Pulpit, entitled "  the green city

Case Study # 7

Exteriorized inside

Architects from Grenoble proposes a new concept of the intermediate group housing of the years ' 70: Rubixhome. > More information

The figures of the urban sprawl

9 % > part of the national territory artificialized in 2014, is approximately 51 000 km2 (480 times the surface of Paris). Infrastructures represent near

Between shrubby metropolises and urban campaigns

Take action

The interest growing for the place of the nature in town, the manufacturing of the landscapes and the farming of closeness contributes to

Case Study House # 8

The House Schminke, 1930-32

Built at the same time that the Villa Tugendhat de Mies van der Rohe ( 1931 ) or the Villa Savoye of Le

The city at night

Light pollution

HE ANPCEN (national Association for the protection of the sky and the environment) and the Mission economy of the biodiversity of Caisse des

The economy of the bike

A dynamic sector

According to a study of the European Federation of the cycling, the sector of the bike shows itself a sector supplier of jobs

Fit out the region Ile de France with the nature

Guide od the green and blue corridor

The regional agency for the nature and the biodiversity of Ile-de-France, Natureparif published a guide intended for the local elected representatives to integrate

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La Cité du Vin

Bordeaux (33)

he finishing straight line

The Cité du Vin (X-TU architects) officially ended its metamorphosis : the last panels of glass and metal were put by the climbers, who ended their

The observatory of the green cities

How better to dread the stakes in the green city in France? With what current problems are the French cities confronted regarding management of

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Co-dividual

House Vision Tokyo 2016

Tokyo

After the success of the first edition in 2013, the exhibition "House Vision Tokyo" is back during the summer. Organized always by Kenya Hara,

Peri-urban aera

A model of arrangement to be renewed

Often slandered, but today, objects of numerous attentions, the peri-urban aeras assure a big part of the homebuilding in France. The report "Bonnet"  submitted last January to the

Case Study House # 9

Turf Town, 1983

Glenn Hwoard Small

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Ecological transition and quality of the housing environment

Conseil éconolique, social et environnemental

The Economic, social and environmental Council adopted, on April 17th of this year, an entitled notice " The quality of the housing environment, the

Lectures urbaines

Bordeaux (33)

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Circular economy # 1

The courpet

t, single-use and recyclable boat

The courpet is an old cargo ship of the gabare type, single-use, rowed and steered by a long tail oar, used in the

Climate in Aquitaine

Planning for action

The report on climate change in New Aquitaine published by AcclimaTerra is a pioneering work in France that describes the impacts of climate

Ni vu ni connu # 1

The first green façade

[ 1973 ] Jacques Famery imagined with the Italian architect Andréa Branzi (Archizoom), the first proposal for a green facade for a residential building

Ni vu ni connu # 2

Autonomous housing project

In the early 1970s, Alexander Pike developed the concept of Autonomous Housing, which, through its ambitions of comfort and technological integration, contrasts with

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Goodbye to flush toilet

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When the American counterculture of the 1970s invented the selective collection and recycling of urine. Coordinated by thethe Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) in

Urbanising in place

Building the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Urbanising in place aims to explore how to reinvent and reconfigure agriculture and food crop practices, threatened by rapid urbanization, in what we

Climate investments

Progressing, but can do better

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Earthen construction

Our online database

From the first sedentary settlements in the Near East several millennia ago to medieval city centres, mud architecture has developed over the centuries

Back to literature

Bioregion and public space

Two works for this new literary season, both of which are presented as a teaching manual, the first one coordinated by Ludovic Duhem

Prototype House

Hook park campus, Dorset (UK)

Prototype House, designed by Richard Burton (1933-2017), was the first building on the Hooke Park Forestry Campus in Dorset. John Makepeace, who founded the

Plastic is fantastic

The hidden cost plastic

In its report Plastics: the cost to society, the environment and the economy, the WWF reviews the entire life cycle of plastics and

Cooling the cities

A health impact

A study conducted as part of the European GoGreenRoutes project concludes that increasing tree cover in major European cities to at least 30%