21Nov

Stylishly sustainable design for K-12 school project

Categories: Green Technology & Efficient Solutions
No comments
Stylishly sustainable design for K-12 school project

Email, RSS Follow

Sustainability is all everyone is talking about these days. What with resources dwindling at an alarming rate, there is a need to come up with solutions that can best bring together living with limited supply. This includes living and work space as well. Keeping sustainability in mind, design group Shortlist_0 is in the process of finalizing plans to create a school model based on the K-12 system. The project envisions making the school self-sufficient by using forms of renewable energy and making use of natural light and ventilation.

(more…)

Share

Tags:
14Nov

Solar Skyscrapers are Nearly Here

Categories: Green Technology & Efficient Solutions
No comments
Solar-Skyscraper

Email, RSS Follow

Living skyscrapers? Not quite. While organic solar cells are one of several types of photovoltaics currently being explored, Scientific American reports that work is being done that could lead to windows acting as solar panels, by using a compound very similar to chlorophyll.

Chlorophyll, as we all remember from elementary school, is the green chemical in leaves that turns water and carbon dioxide to oxygen and glucose with the use of sunlight (through a horrible cycle learned once in bio class and then forgotten forever). A chemist by the name of Michael Graetzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology thinks he can use it to build a better solar cell.

(more…)

Share

Tags:
1Nov

Five sports stadiums that rely entirely on renewable solar energy

Categories: Green Technology & Efficient Solutions
No comments
Five sports stadiums that rely entirely on renewable solar energy

Email, RSS Follow

Going green and promoting sustainability is one of the top priorities in today’s world. When we talk about interiors and architecture, architects and interior designers from all around the world are designing highly engineered structures that combine various sustainable features. The new inventions haven’t spared the sports stadiums as well. Lately, we have witnessed eco-friendly sports stadiums being designed in various cities in the world. The solar powered sports stadiums are perfect example of going green. Further in this post you will read about the five best solar powered sports stadium in the world.

(more…)

Share

Tags:
28Oct

10 Most innovative solar powered designs

Categories: Green Technology & Efficient Solutions
No comments
10 Most innovative solar powered designs

Email, RSS Follow

Solar power is no longer just about slapping photovoltaic eyesores on existing rooftops to harness a bit of extra sun energy. Nowadays, people are finding unique ways to integrate solar energy into architectural, vehicular and even fashion designs from the beginning. Moreover, some innovators have even figured out ways to make structures entirely energy independent by combining various alternative energy sources. When solar was first introduced it was an auxiliary power source – now we have cars, boats, planes and even entire buildings that run on solar power. From the world’s first energy autonomous vehicle to solar balloons, arcs, lily pads and even bras here are some of the most clever contemporary solar designs.

(more…)

Share

Tags:
29Aug

Green Architecture: 15 skyscrapers with integrated energy generators

Categories: Green Technology & Efficient Solutions
No comments
Shenzhen 4 Tower

Email, RSS Follow

The world today is facing two kinds of crisis; the one is the energy and second is the land. Due to lack of land and increasing population, lots of skyscrapers have sprawled up and each one has tremendous power needs. The sustainable energy architectures can solve this problem fully. Since these skyscrapers are very tall, a lot of wind energy and geothermal energy can be harnessed from them using wind turbines on roof and water turbines on the ground. Here we have listed 15 of such green building:

(more…)

Share

Tags:
22Aug

10 skyscrapers that take vertical farming to a new high

Categories: Green Technology & Efficient Solutions
No comments
10 skyscrapers that take vertical farming to a new high

Email, RSS Follow

Wheat on the seventh floor and rice on the twelfth. Finally, enough food grown over 18-story tower that can feed a city of 50,000 citizens. This simple thought would one-day become a reality. Thanks to the vertical farms or sky farms, where various crops will be grown in ecofriendly skyscrapers. Till date this concept was tagged as futuristic designs and was seen merely on optimistic Web sites.

In spite of concerns over high costs of sky farms, health experts across the world are trying to convince people across the world, the reality behind this innovative concept. So let us now take a quick look at top ten green skyscrapers in the world, which boosts vertical farms that not only produce food but also provide an artistic look to the building.

(more…)

Share

Tags:
11Aug

Spiraling Self-Sufficient Eco Skyscraper Provides Water, Food, and Energy for Noida, India

Categories: Green Technology & Efficient Solutions
No comments
Spiraling Self-Sufficient Eco Skyscraper Provides Water, Food, and Energy for Noida, India

Email, RSS Follow

Architect Vikas Pawar’s Eco Skyscraper concept envisions a tower capable of providing clean water, food and energy for the citizens of Noida, India. The conspicuous spiral elements that make up the building are more than just aesthetic features — they serve as vertical farms supplemented by a sophisticated system of hydroponics that allow humid air to be converted into drinkable water. In addition to bringing potable water to its inhabitants, the Eco Skyscraper would be a full fledged vertical community that makes use of renewable sources like the wind and sun for power.

(more…)

Share

Tags: