Tag Ecosystem

10-03-2022

IAAC’s Solar Greenhouse produces both food and energy

IAAC, the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, has built an advanced ecological prototype of a Solar Greenhouse made using natural zero-kilometre materials and digital construction techniques in the Natural Park of Collserola, producing food and energy in cities.

25-03-2021

Carlo Ratti Associati’s Hot Heart for the city of Helsinki

The international Helsinki Energy Challenge launched by the government of the city of Helsinki to reduce polluting emissions in cities is over. Helsinki is one of the world capitals most active in combatting climate change, aspiring to achieve zero CO2 emissions by 2030. The Hot Heart solution proposed by the transdisciplinary team led by Carlo Ratti Associati is one of four Challenge winners aiming to make the city carbon-neutral in the near future.

12-02-2021

Jason de Caires Taylor’s underwater museum in Cannes

Environmentalist sculptor Jason de Caires Taylor has created his first installation in the Mediterranean Sea. Near the island of Sainte-Marguerite, one of the Lérins Islands just off Cannes on the French coast, six monumental three-dimensional portraits await exploration under the water, while providing a new habitat for marine flora and fauna.

27-01-2021

WHOSE THE FAULT: PLASTIC OR MAN?

“We are consuming resources that future generations should have inherited. The Earth is a closed system. And if in a closed system we continue to consume without measure, the resources will run out. No other species would do that”— Stefano Mancuso