Voici une superbe idée de campagne proposée par DDB China pour la China Environmental Protection Foundation. Pour accompagner leur message de protection de l’environnement, les passants se servent de leur pieds comme tampons pour rendre à un arbre sa verdure. Un excellent concept à découvrir en vidéo.
Architecture studio Tredje Natur is redesigning a Copenhagen neighbourhood to better handle the floods expected as climate change leads to fewer but heavier rain storms.
When heavy rainfall strikes Saint Kjeld’s Kvarter, the water will be collected above ground in parks and squares to simultaneously relieve the sewer systems and create new recreational areas around the pools.
A giant ring in the main square will spray out a cooling mist on hot days, while excess water will be channelled along new cycle lanes that will double as storm drains, leading to canals and out to the harbour rather than into people’s basements.
The architects and local government hope the scheme will become a model for green urban planning and a showcase for climate adaptation technology.
“Only last year, three cloud bursts cost the society over 5 billion DKK in damage to the buildings and infrastructure,” says Flemming Rafn Thomsen, partner at Tredje Natur. “The climate adaptive plans in Copenhagen, and whole of Denmark really, are humongous and will probably have a time frame longer than 20 years, but the political will to get something done soon is pretty strong.”
Flemming Rafn Thomsen and Ole Schrøder won the competition to re-design the site as part of the Europan architecture competition in 2011, after which the city of Copenhagen signed them up to advise on the strategic development of the area.
The detailed plans will be unveiled to Copenhagen residents tonight and construction is due to begin in 2013, with completion scheduled for 2015/16.
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Here’s some more information from Tredje Natur:
Copenhagen based architecture firm TREDJE NATUR develops Denmark’s first climate adapted neighborhood.
On the 18th of August 2012 the plans for Copenhagen’s first climate adapted neighborhood is presented to the public. The project’s visions to transform Saint Kjeld’s Quarter into Copenhagen’s greenest neighborhood are presented at a grand opening by Danish Environmental Minister, Ida Auken,
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The climate is changing behavior. The Copenhageners can look forward to fewer but heavier rain showers, as the city has already been experiencing over the last two summers. In Saint Kjeld’s Neighborhood a comprehensive urban development project seeks to demonstrate how the city can be arranged so rainwater can be managed in the streets in a more natural and effective way. The project was designed by the newly established architectural firm TREDJE NATUR, and promotes new solutions for how we adapt to the climate changes and develop our cities.
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“The increase in rainfall is a major challenge for our city. But by tackling the challenge the right way, we can secure the city from cloudbursts while also bringing the city new recreational values. The ideas in Saint Kjeld’s Neighborhood are a really good example of this,” says Technical and Environmental Mayor of Copenhagen, Ayfer Baykal (SF).
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Pragmatic and Innovative Urban Development
TREDJE NATUR’s project offers a wide range of pragmatic strategies to meet the many expectations in the area. As a key principle the architects reclaim 20% of the street area by optimizing the infrastructure and parking lots according to current standard. The obtained area counts potentially 50,000 square meters and is to be used for new urban space development. It is also an important parameter not to compromise the city’s existing functions.
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In the large urban spaces, such as Saint Kjeld’s Square and Tåsinge Square the office has put a great effort into creating new kinds of urban experiences founded in the city’s and nature’s changeability. A gigantic floating ring sprays a cooling rain mist out on the hot summer days, hundreds of plant species secures an attractive nature all year round and a hilly terrain invites you to play and stay.
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“At Saint Kjeld’s Square and Tåsinge Square we optimize the terrain effectively doubling the urban space’s surface area. This provides new space for a comprehensive volume of natural value, a better micro-climate and hence more urban life and better rain water management. The large spaces will be both striking and natural hot spots in the district. It is also possible to integrate new cafes and playgrounds in the optimized terrain,” says Partner in TREDJE NATUR, Flemming Rafn Thomsen.
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Naturally the water plays a particularly important role in the project. A key concept is the idea that the urban spaces are flooded when it rains and that the water remains in the urban spaces a little longer than usual. This relieves the sewer systems, and also helps to transform the experience and the use of the urban spaces.
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Copenhagen’s Greenest Neighborhood
The project introduces bicycle paths that act as storm water channels, water towers, green roofs, urban gardens, green houses and canals that carry water out from the neighborhood to the harbor. And simultaneously give rise to greater biological diversity in the city. These are just some of the ideas for new ways to adapt to the climate change that will emerge over the coming years. The City of Copenhagen plans to transform the densely populated neighborhood into a showcase area for climate adaptation technology. It is hoped to become a place that exhibits how we at one hand ensure our cities to future climate challenges, and moreover upgrade our urban spaces and streets significantly.
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“By far the greatest challenges our society face lies in the existing city. The goal is to upgrade the city to residents’ expectations as to how the city must perform in terms of sustainable, social and health related issues. Our key concepts are driven by the notion that a coherent and natural design creates the most powerful strategy and solution for the neighborhood as a whole, but also comprise a sensitivity to individual spaces, places and the people in the area,” says partner in TREDJE NATUR, Ole Schrøder.
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Adaptation to the climate changes should not only deal with larger sewers or rising taxes. Therefore, the project will instead operate with the city’s visible surface and make the city greener, so that water is both delayed and the urban spaces are simultaneously transformed into wondrous places for the city’s residents to hang out or exercise.
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“In Copenhagen we must secure the city against the heavy rains we expect in the future,” says City Architect Tina Saaby. “The projects in this neighborhood show how we at once can create beautiful, green streets and spaces and at the same time establish an effective technical solution that leads the rainwater in our streets to the harbor – instead of into our basements. It is architecture that integrates art and aesthetics in a new and very exciting way, “says Tina Saaby, City Architect of Copenhagen.
About TREDJE NATUR
In the latest edition of A10, the prestigious international architecture magazine, TREDJE NATUR is singled out as Shooting Stars together with 10 other young leading architectural practices in Denmark. The newly established office, based in Copenhagen, has experienced an impressive debut on to the Danish architectural scene. With a three-year scholarship awarded by The Danish Arts Council in 2011 Ole Schrøder and Flemming Rafn Thomsen realized the vision of a new architectural practice where the distinction between nature and architecture are revoked. TREDJE NATUR recently entered successfully into the final stage of the largest Danish planning competition in the City of Aalborg and is also shortlisted for the international competition on new major campus buildings in Kongsberg, Norway.
About Saint Kjeld’s Neighborhood
The architectural office TREDJE NATUR got the assignment in December 2011 by winning the European competition coalition EUROPAN11. The competition proposal comprised a visionary plan for how the district’s streets and open spaces can become more diverse by letting the rain and natural phenomena merge with the urban life. In few years the neighborhood will be able to showcase the new solutions in real life and the ambition is to create a model area, which both nationally and internationally will inspire broadly and strengthen Denmark’s position in urban water management and urban design.
The Opening Party is held at Tåsingegade in Copenhagen on Saturday the 18th August at 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. See The City of Copenhagen’s own website for more info.
Responsible Partners: Flemming Rafn Thomsen and Ole Schrøder
Design Team: Monica Galiana, Anna Sissela Michalsdottir, Joan Melgaard Rasmussen, Lotte Randeris Kristensen, Louise Fiil Hansen and Hans H. Bærholm
Location: Saint Kjeld’s Kvarter, Copenhagen.
Client: The City of Copenhagen
Size: 105 Ha
Project period: 2011-16
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Audi designer Jae Min on the design process behind the A3 e-tron
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Shanghai architects Polifactory have developed a concept for a rammed earth house that generates energy from a lake on its roof.
Designed for a rural site in Vancouver, the self-sustaining HOUS.E+ would use turbines embedded in the walls to produce electricity from water being pumped through a system of pipes.
Additional electricity would come from photovoltaic panels on the rooftops of five blocks that rise above the water and any excess power could be fed back into the national grid.
Rooms would be set 2.5 metres below ground level, where they would be heated in winter and cooled in summer from an underground pump that uses the surrounding earth as a heat source or sink.
Two courtyards at this level would let daylight down onto the sunken floor, while more natural light would filter in through skylights.
Inhabitants would also be able to harvest their own food by cultivating an ecosystem of fish, seafood and plants beneath the surface of the water.
Polifactory developed the concept for a competition organised by The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia for a redesign of the typical regional house.
We also recently featured a self-sustaining house in rural China, which you can see here.
Here’s some text from Polifactory:
Hous.E+ is designed to combine new and old techniques in order to create a not only a resourceful building regarding energy efficiency and sustainability but also well equipped to actively respond to future demands of smart grid systems where energy surplus is distributed and agriculture within the city is a reality.
Above: solar energy and geothermal heat exchange
Designed for a competition in Vancouver, called “100 Mile House”, this project is more than just a concept, but reality with a twist. Therefore, it is based upon existing smart technologies, but goes a step further on solutions that haven’t been explored so far. In this house water is not only stored and re-used but also is part of a cycle that generates power throughout a series of wall embedded micro hydro-turbines. Unnecessary transportation of materials is avoid making a significant difference into the overall carbon foot print emission balance.
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Hous.E+ is build upon a rammed earth wall technique that is unaffected by rain, fire or pests, plus it doesn’t require any further finishing. The walls act like breathing structures, allowing air exchange without significant heat loss, working naturally as a thermal mass, storing heat in winter and rejecting in the summer, eliminating the need for air conditioning.
Above: aquaponics healthy food growth
Hous.E+ is set to produce more energy than it consumes.
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Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn writes about design that balances desirability with ethical credibility for the New York Times, citing Mathieu Lehanneur’s Wi-Fi stations across Paris and Something & Son’s temporary spa the Barking Bathhouse as good examples to follow – New York Times
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As my airplane circled over Amsterdam, one of the most notable aspects of the landscape below was the number of modernized windmills dotting the fields. So when I came across the Harmowind project, it got me thinking, why can’t we adapt to this free source of energy and become self-reliant? This particular windmill has been specifically designed for household use and can be installed in the backyard. It has the capacity to generate enough power for a single-family unit to use.
As the designer explains, “Unlike the horizontal axis wind turbines, Harmowind is independent of wind direction. It can make use of wind turbulence to generate power, which happens very often in built-up area. Harmowind runs extreme quietly thanks to not only the vertical axis, but also the small rotation radius.”
Designer: Hailan Li
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Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has made these small solar-powered lamps for people who have limited access to reliable energy – almost a quarter of the world’s population (+ movie).
Little Sun can produce five hours of light when charged in the sun for five hours.
Above image is by Little Sun
Eliasson hopes to bring light to people in remote locations and reduce their reliance on hazardous kerosene lanterns.
Above image is by Merklit Mersha
The artist, who is best known for his Weather Project installation at Tate Modern in 2003, worked with solar engineer Frederik Ottesen on the project.
Above image is by Michael Tsegaye
The Little Sun lamps will also be used at a series of ‘Tate Blackouts’ at the Tate Modern gallery in London this summer, where visitors will be invited to look at works of art in the dark.
Above image is by Mihret Kebede
Tate Blackouts will take place between 10pm and midnight on 28 July, 4 August, 11 August and 18 August. The events are free with the purchase of a Little Sun.
Above image is by Tomas Gislason
The gallery will also host an exhibition about the Little Sun project from 28 July to 23 September.
Above image is by Andy Paradise
The movies are by Tomas Gislason.
Above image is by Andy Paradise
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Here’s some more information from Tate Modern:
As part of Olafur Eliasson: Little Sun at Tate Modern, to be launched on 28 July 2012, visitors will be invited to look at works of art in the dark using only the light of Eliasson’s Little Sun solar-powered lamps. The presentation at Tate Modern has been developed for the London 2012 Festival that runs across the UK until 9 September 2012.
Olafur Eliasson is probably best-known for his highly successful The weather project (2003), part of the Unilever Series in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, which drew over 2 million visitors during its five-month installation.
The artist has developed the Little Sun solar-powered lamp with the engineer Frederik Ottesen to focus attention on the power of solar light to improve lives. Around 1.6 billion people worldwide live without access to mains electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for lighting, which is both expensive and a health hazard. Little Sun brings light to people in off-grid locations, enabling them to work, reduce household expenses and improve the quality of life.
Starting on 28 July, people will be invited to participate in Tate Blackouts on Saturday nights after ordinary museum hours. For two hours, the lights will go off in the former power station and visitors can look at the works of art in the suite of galleries devoted to Tate Modern’s Surrealist collection using only the light of Little Sun lamps. This echoes the 1938 International Surrealist Exhibition at the Galérie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where Man Ray (as ‘Master of Light’) supplied the visitors with torches to explore the labyrinthine galleries.
Beyond the Tate Blackout events, Olafur Eliasson: Little Sun will feature in a space on the third floor of the gallery from 28 July to 23 September, where visitors can learn about solar power, the global energy challenge, light and its importance in and for life. It will also include a special set-up for people to do light graffiti using the Little Sun and offer the opportunity to buy a lamp for £16.50 (€22). In off-grid areas the price will be reduced to about half that amount.
Little Sun produces 5 hours of light when it is charged in the sun for 5 hours. It facilitates the creation of small businesses to sell the lamp and, by concentrating profits at the point of need, it aims to promote economic growth in regions of the world where electricity is not available, reliable, affordable, or sustainable. Little Sun is light for studying, sharing, cooking, and earning. It is light for life.
Little Sun events in September will include a seminar and the premiere of 16 short films on light, life, and Little Sun by filmmakers from off-grid areas around the world.
Olafur Eliasson: Little Sun
Tate Modern
28 July – 23 September 2012
Tate Blackouts will take place on the following dates from 22.00 to Midnight:
28 July
4 August
11 August
18 August
The events are free with the purchase of a Little Sun.
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Eight poles and a board made of forest waste bolt together to make a flat-pack table by Japanese designers Hiroyuki Miyabe and Jun Yoshimura of SPEAC.
Called For Rest Table, it can be bolted together easily and has been painted with accents of white at the end of some sections and the bottom of two legs.
It’s made from thinnings of hinoki cypress – a slow growing tree predominantly found in Japan – that would otherwise be thrown away.
Back in 2008 we featured the renovation of an ivy-covered house by SPEAC. Take a look at it here.
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Photographs are by the designers.
The information that follows is from SPEAC:
Double wishes
The name of this table is For Rest Table. This name has double meanings.
The first is “For rest”. The second is the wish for revival of sustainable environment of a forest.
We know that healthy circulation of forest thinning waste is indispensable to revive and sustain Japanese forest.
This table is one of the effective utilization of sustainable wood.
Sectional table with good texture
This table is sectional and consists of one plate and 8 poles. We can put together very easily without special tools.
All parts are made of Japanese cypress “Hinoki”. And we can enjoy very good texture and fragrance of wood.
Reasonable shipping cost
These parts of the table can be packed compactly. We can ship saving cost and energy.
Design: SPEAC,inc./Hiroyuki Miyabe/ Jun Yoshimura
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: SPEAC,inc.
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Voici la dernière campagne proposée par Greenpeace pour la sauvegarde de la planète. En simulant la présence d’un ours polaire à la recherche de sa banquise en plein Londres, la vidéo parvient à prendre conscience des enjeux environnementaux. Le tout sur la musique de Radiohead et la voix de Jude Law.
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