Tag Green Architecture

28-04-2020

Everyday hygiene and prevention: the antibacterial efficacy of Active 2.0 ceramic surfaces

Antibacterial and anti-pollutant, with self-cleaning properties: these are the key qualities of the Iris Ceramica Group’s Active 2.0 ceramic slabs, which use the natural process of photocatalysis to augment their unique ISO-certified properties. Digital production significantly improves the distribution over the surface of the slab of its active components: titanium dioxide and silver ions, the combined action of which permits Active 2.0 slabs to act not only with natural light but with LED light and even in the dark. Active 2.0 surfaces, guaranteed by international scientific standards and certification, offer all the beauty and technical properties of the Iris Ceramica Group’s ceramic slabs and are ideal for indoor and outdoor use in community settings

25-02-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH SHEPPARD ROBSON

Sheppard Robson firmly believes in the importance of a responsible sustainable innovative design, not only from now but from the moment the studio was born, in 1938, years when people were not talking with much fervor and much concern about environmental damage and rising global warming levels.

25-02-2019

ARCHI-PUNCTURE

The archi-puncturist observes the city and, when he reaches the critical-spots, inserts his needles to alleviate the pressure points, releasing all the energy flow.

11-02-2019

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH CHANG YONG TER

Even if extremely pragmatic and rational in their approaches, the proposals of the architect, Chang Yong Ter, in the research of establishing a tuneful co-existence between human beings and nature, tend to lose material definition, fading into the abstraction of idyllic situations that resonate in our hearts with the power of utopian visions.

28-01-2019

CARNIVOROUS ARCHITECTURE

Is architecture today carnivorous? Exuberant, untouched vegetation perform close-up shots of Peter Bialobrzeski’s series, Paradise Now and Neon Lights. Seductive photographs, with romantic diaphanous, pastel tones, portray peripheries of Asian ‘megatropolis’, that apparently resemble idyllic jungle. At a second glance the deceptive beauty of the pristine green, overshadowed by the artificial neon lights of the city, gradually loses all its naturalness, slowly revealing fragments of a concrete landscape, brightly lit high-rises dangerously advancing closer and closer from the background with their destructive forces.