Water harvesting architecture

Architecture | Urban Planning | Design

Global climate changed, in particular global warming; Ozone depletion; Loss of habitat, and endangerment of species. Environmental Design and Sustainability became main factor to be addressed in most of the development. In terms of a larger scope, environment design has implications for the industrial design of products: automobile, energy re-used, solar panel and etc. Architecturally, Innovation became key challenge to address the environmental design on top of industrial product…

Water and a library…Brasilia

TomDavid Architecten is the winning design studio that will transform a market square in Casablanca, Morocco, with their sustainable leaf-shaped canopy.

Folkeston regeneration project introduces an umbrella structural element for pure rain water collection. The amount, size and positioning of these umbrellas are as per calculations of rainfall numbers in the UK and irrigation requirements, as well as surface water collection etc.This system will sustain the irrigation of the farm as well as the water usage inside the building.

The Rainforest Guardian is a massive skyscraper, a watertower such as the world has never seen, standing watch over the Amazon.

A weathering-steel pavilion featuring fluid curves formed the centrepiece of this garden by Studio Weave and Tom Massey at the Chelsea Flower Show.

The proposal for the Casablanca Sustainable Market Square competition by Nikolova/Aarsø (N/A) brings together the economic, ecological, cultural, and...

As the use of solar power increases and the price falls, it becomes increasingly clear that sunshine is a powerful, popular and practical renewable energy source. Potable water is a universal right…