Tag Delft, The Netherlands

22-07-2022

UNStudio designs an energy-generating building for TU Delft

UNStudio has designed a building with a negative energy balance. Echo, the new teaching building at the Technical University of Delft, produces more energy than it consumes, as well as promoting new ways of learning for future campus buildings and a healthy lifestyle on a physical, psychological and social level.

12-10-2020

The Student Hotel in Delft, sustainable accommodation by KCAP

The international design firm KCAP has designed the latest destination for The Student Hotel in Delft, The Netherlands. The building located centrally near the Nieuw Delft Intercity train station is a new meeting place in town where people can stay, work and study‎‎-and it received ‘BREEAM Very Good’ certification too.

29-04-2020

Architecture, the pandemic and the future of design: MECANOO

In only a few months, everything has changed completely. Even the world of architecture. In search of possible new scenarios, Floornature opens the discussion of a new approach to design for a time of public health emergency, publishing a series of interviews with architects all over the world. How are the big studios organising their work, and what has been the impact of the current situation on smaller architectural practices? What does it mean to design infrastructure, cultural centres and living spaces while avoiding social contact? Might the resilience we seek in buildings also be applicable to the profession of architect? Here are the architects’ responses, some in text form and others in videos, in the usual style of our portal.