Eco-architecture rises above the floods in Cambodia
Every year in Cambodia, the Mekong River floods hundreds of hectares around Lake Tonlé Sap. A project by architect Jonathan Chhen allies ecotourism, ecodesign and social good.
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Building emergency shelter for migrants in Paris, day by day (2)
Makery is on-site to accompany the construction of a future shelter for refugees in Paris, co-designed by architects, graphic designers, social workers and botany artists.
With Julien Beller, urgency architect for migrants in Paris
Mid-October, Paris will have its “orientation and shelter place” for refugees. Makery decided to support this construction site entrusted to the architect Julien Beller.
(Français) Julien Beller du 6b est l’architecte du camp des migrants à Paris
Julien Beller, l'architecte activiste qui a notamment travaillé pour les gens du voyage, est en charge du chantier du camp d'accueil des migrants qui ouvrira en octobre boulevard Ney à Paris.
3D printed eco-houses, Euro-style
On one side, an Italian house made of rudimentary clay, 3D printed for almost nothing. On the other side, a bio-plastic tiny house for rent, 3D printed by Dutch DUS Architects.
Column of a material maker (16)
Caroline Grellier allowed herself a little getaway outside the lab where she refines her vine shoot composites to find inspiration at Terra2016, world congress for lovers of earthen architecture.
Turner Prize turns to collaborative DIY architecture
The Turner Prize, Britain's prestigious art prize, is known for championing experimental art. Among the 2015 finalists is an architects collective nominated for a social project, in Liverpool.
Print glass in 3D? Yes, she can!
Mediated Matter researchers of the MIT Media Lab in Boston developed the very first 3D printer for glass. Opening new possibilities for design and architecture.
A design lab revisits the game of life in architecture
The Spyropoulos Design Lab in London explores a “conscious” architecture driven by design and Arduinos according to behavioural patterns. An ecology serving man and city.
Slovenian land art for nanotourism
Is sustainable tourism feasible? In July, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, gave a workshop at KSEVT, a center dedicated to cultural space programs perched in the Slovenian Alps.
Aernoudt Jacobs makes tin cans sing
With "Induction Series" the Belgian sound artist is producing a series of sculptures that play with resonance and architecture to create vibratory fields.
Exyzt: 12 years of machines to inhabit
Exyzt exhibit 12 years of explosive temporary architecture at Montpellier’s Tropisme festival. A best-of retrospective and the final exclamation mark of the collective.
