The prototype is made of polyethylene terephthalate layers measuring 0.35 mm thick, pre-cut and stitched off-site and set up on-site by just two people. This translucid installation features a central void to accommodate pop-up exhibitions... [+]
For the densely populated quarters of Mumbai the architects have envisaged a growth scheme consisting in a superstructure that neighbors can make their own and a range of lightweight construction systems to enlarge the existing buildings.
En 1997, el empresario Ray Stata, antiguo alumno del Massachusetts Institute of Technology, anunció una importante donación a la institución, a la que se sumaron más tarde las de otros importantes mecenas, como Bill Gates y Alexander Dreyfoos. Se ini
Scheherazade told stories in order to survive. The human being has always honed ingenuity at critical moments, and this book proves so. It looks at a refugee camp in the Jordanian desert where Syrian migrants forced to stay put have to harness their
Technologies don’t have to be cutting edge to make a profound difference in people’s lives. By the early 1990s, diarrheal diseases were killing some 5 million children under the age of five every year. That number is down to about 1.5 million, thanks
The aim of the Trash Track program, developed by the MIT SENSEable Ciy Lab, is to find out how much energy needs to be expended to make the waste generated in cities disappear. The project consisted of mapping the paths taken by the waste produced in
