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Michel
Gerber - Architecte - "Développement
durable" et la notion de "bâtiment à haute qualité environnementale".
Ce travail à la fois de recherche et de production porte sur
des domaines d'intervention divers tels que habitat, tertiaire,
bâtiments scolaires,… par la mise en œuvre des concepts et
des techniques de construction bioclimatique, par l'éclairage
naturel des espaces de travail, par le contrôle des ambiances.
Cette site est partagé avec plusiers architectes avec
les mêmes idées. This site in French shows
the work of an architect who made "bioclimatic"
architecture a household word.. http://www.atelier-e.com/mobile_l_equipe.php |
The Eye
house - Sintra, Portugal |
Amancio
Guedes is an architect, a sculptor, a painter, and
many other things. He is known familiarly to many people as
Pancho Guedes. His organic, exuberant, eclectic, complex and
thoughtful buildings and projects have been published occasionally,
but they have not been sufficiently recognised for their quality
and originality. His visual imagination absorbed every influence,
from the art of Africa to the Surrealists, and synthesised
them into a style which is recognisably his own, however varied
the results appear at first glance. He was a post-modern 20
years before the term was invented, and he is still active,
working in Portugal now, inventing new buildings, painting
and sculpting out a home on a steep hillside near Sintra in
Portugal. This
website, created by Cedric Green, is intended to provide information
about his extraordinary architecture and other work, and to
begin a growing archive. It shows a lot of his drawings and
photographs of his work, his recent retrospective exhibitions
in Switzerland, and Lisbon, and contains a biographical essay,
and other documents about him. ...http://www.guedes.info |
Moya - view
from the south |
Green
Houses - a selection of low energy and solar houses designed by
Cedric Green, and built between 1965 and 2010, including Paxton
Court in Sheffield, UK - 14 self-build hybrid solar houses,
which was based on the design which won 2nd prize in the 1st
European Passive Solar competition in 1980. Also shown are 2
projects for students of architecture to build, one of which
was awarded 3rd prize in a Japanese international competition.
All of the houses shown are largely timber framed structures
with a high levels of insulation and very large solar greenhouses
off which all the rooms can open. This website includes Delta
and Moya,
on adjoining sites in Charsfield, Suffolk, UK. http://greenart.info/greenhouses/ |
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Building
a Solar House - in France, Cedric Green built himself
a ecological and bioclimatic house, starting in 2007, and recorded
each step of the 'self-build' process. This is an annotated
picture record, a series of albums of photographs, following
the progress of the project, from its inception to completion,
recording the details of construction, the setbacks, the frustrations,
the rewards, the delays, the changes of direction, the incidents
and accidents along the way.The house is finished now (2012)
and the latest posts show the finished house and beginnings
of external works.This site is a useful source of information
for anyone interested in French methods of ecological construction.. http://greenart.info/theves/ |
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Maison
Verte - site en français sur la maison ecologique
et bioclimatique construit par Cedric Green en France
entre 2007 et 2010 "... Nous avons décidé d'investir
toutes nos ressources et nos énergies à faire une petite contribution
personnelle, en changeant notre mode de vie et en exprimant
à faire ce que je savais - construction d'une maison écologique.
Bien sûr il y avait un élément égoïste, parce que je pense que
bientôt le concurrance international pour contrôle des ressources
de pétrole et de gaz conduirait à flambée des prix de l'energie..."
http://greenart.info/thevesfr/index.html
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"Haus
der Zukunft" at the Gardening Exposition of Upper Austria
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Architekturbüro
Sture Larsen - Sture Larsen is an independent architect
working in Vorarlberg, Austria. His most outstanding works
have been focused on solar and low-energy buildings. His work
with developing methods of building affordable low energy
housing brought him several awards beginning with the Binding
Award for Environmental Conservation, 1989, and culminating
in the Austrian State Award for Energy Research in 1997. His
site shows many examples of solar buildings he has designed.. http://www.solarsen.com/e/start-e.htm |
DESIGN
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Green
Art is an innovative, reliable and efficient
'design-and-build' landscape business located right on
the border between New Hampshire and Maine, Their work.
including
plans for stonework, infrastructure, planting layout, specialty
gardens, consultation regarding all aspects of landscaping,
such as efficient beautification of a property in preparation
for a sale - stone masonry including walkways and patios,
driveways, walls, and other landscape
installations- planting of gardens
including professional soil preparation in order to obtain ideal
growing conditions.
The creator of this business, Thomas
Berger is a sculptor whose work is exhibited in his studio
garden. He is concerned about ecology and is a keen cyclist
and environmentalist.. http://www.greenart.com/
and
http://www.greenart.com/bergerstoneart/index.html |
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Zuma
Creations by
artist Kevin
Sutton now produces handmade, one of a kind, original designs
using eco-friendly, energy efficient LED bulbs and repurposed
bottles and glass receptacles. "Rustic Sophistication", is what
these lamps are about. In each lamp, the touch of the artist's
hand is evident. While earning a MFA from Pratt Institute, Kevin's
areas of focus was equally divided between painting and sculpture.
The common thread was a love of color, light and process. The
lamps are an extension of these interests, while also
expressing his concern for the environment. A admiration for
the Arts and Crafts movement, their reaction against an increasingly
technological society, and their commitment to the marriage
of form and fuction had a huge influence on his creative philosophy.
All lights are made to order. The customer works directly with
the artist to discuss their particular needs. Imaginative
use of recycling to produce very low energy lighting. See
also Kevin Sutton's relief
constructions using recycled materials, which has occupied
him for years past .. http://www.zumacreations.com/ |
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Helen
Green - (Bright
Green Design)
- 3 dimensional design and computer modelling - Trained at
Hull University, Bristol Old Vic theatre school, and Wimbledon
Art College, she has 15 years of experience in all fields
of set and costume design for theatre, television drama and
dance. She designs exhibitions, conference sets and produces photorealistic
computer rendered architectural perspectives and animations. She also
makes masks and puppets for theatre and opera and has taught
design and prop-making part time at Exeter University. She
works freelance, designing and modelling. Her website is very well illustrated with her latest work and is mobile friendly... http://www.brightgreen.info
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Henley
Offices produces a range of small office buildings primarily
for those who work at home, mostly of prefabricated insulated
timber construction. They are in Wokingham, Berks. and one of
the largest manufacturers in the industry in the UK, with nearly
170,000 sq. ft. of modern, computer-controlled production and
warehousing facilities. Henley Offices have featured in many
magazines and newspaper articles, all reproduced on their website,
which is well illustrated, with current prices and delivery
times. ...http://www.henleyoffices.com/ |
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InsideOut
Garden Offices produce housing-quality, eco-friendly
garden buildings: stylish garden offices and granny flats, and
sumptuous en-suite studios. Their garden offices require minimal
heating, no air conditioning and consume little electricity.
InsideOut garden offices,studios and granny flats are architect-designed,
personally project-managed and sensitively built with eco-friendly
materials. They are very well insulated, double-glazed and voluntarily
built to Building Regulation standards for new homes and public
buildings. All their garden office and accommodation buildings
are carefully finished with environmentally friendly larch cladding,
grown in carefully managed woodland in Scotland and Northumbria,
and are finished with individually nailed cedar roofing shingles
that mellow with the years. Browse this nicely designed site
to see an admirably modest approach to building in an eco-friendly
way. http://www.iobuild.co.uk/ |
LINKS
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Glass
is Green is a Saint Gobain glass initiative. "...A
green building can be defined as any building that is sited,
designed, constructed, operated and maintained for the health
and well-being of the occupants, while minimizing impact on
the environment. "... The site extolls the green properties
of glass in controlling overheating, reducing lighting and
heating bills by letting in daylight and sunlight. The site
is commercial but full of useful information for green designers... http://www.glassisgreen.com |
Arcosanti
5000 Site Plan : Paolo Soleri |
Arcosanti
- Arcosanti is a growing city in the Arizona desert
designed according to the concept of arcology (architecture
+ ecology), developed by Italian architect Paolo
Soleri. In an arcology, the built and the living interact
as organs would in a highly evolved being. This means many systems
work together, with efficient circulation of people and resources,
multi-use buildings, and solar orientation for lighting, heating
and cooling. Greenhouses provide gardening space for public
and private use, and act as solar collectors for winter heat.
Arcosanti is also an educational process. The five week workshop
program teaches building techniques and arcological philosophy,
while continuing the city's construction. Volunteers and students
come from around the world. People of many varied interests
and backgrounds are all contributing their valuable time and
skills to the project. ...http://www.arcosanti.org/ |
Environmental
Design Library - Green Design / Sustainable Architecture:
Information Sources. Sustainably designed buildings aim to lessen
their impact on our environment through energy and resource
efficiency. This guide will lead you to information on this
topic and give you strategies for locating newer materials as
they become available. Materials are in the Environmental Design
Library, UC Berkeley.... http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/GreenAll.html
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