Applying its principles, a regional agency for the environment incorporates passive energy-saving strategies into its offices, minimizing the need for climate-control systems. Besides providing daylight aplenty, a roof with 112 greenhouse-type skylig
Europe’s largest facility for urban food production has begun operations in a monumental greenhouse set on the roof of a major vegetable and fruit auction cooperative. Strict regulation of hygrothermal conditions is guaranteed through the formation o
A work of Grand Huit – a cooperative of architects led by Julia Turpin, Marine Kerboua, and Clara Simay –in collaboration with the landscaper Melanie Drevet, this project is part of an effort to mobilize residents and neighborhood associations in the
The Solar Greenhouse for self-sufficient farming is located in the Serra de Collserola Natural Park, outside Barcelona. A few meters away is the Valldaura Labs campus of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), which engages in re
Ubicado en los históricos jardines de Versalles, el conjunto escolar evoca el rigor técnico y la optimización formal de los invernaderos. En su cubierta integra un pequeño jardín hortícola que sirve como herramienta pedagógica y favorece la biodivers
Through a careful restoration, the project transforms the old mill complex into the new headquarters of Bombay Sapphire distillers. Located by the River Test, in Laverstoke, the site had become a cluttered and confused mess, with Grade II listed stru
Located in the UAB campus in Cerdanyola del Vallès, the ICTA-ICP building is a research center in environmental science and paleontology. In tune with its function, from the beginning the building was designed according to sustainability criteria. Th
This greenhouse is part of Rural Studio Farm, a project which was launched back in 2010 to bring back into use the systems of planting organic foods that had been largely abandoned in industrialized countries, especially in the United States. The bui
On the same plot where the Vallès School of Architecture goes up, the project won a competition in which three challenges were posed: to provide accommodation for architecture students, to achieve the Minergie Swiss energy certification (staying belo
Based on the exchange of activities, knowledge and abilities, using time as currency, the program develops the whole process around an urban garden – going from harvest to commercialization –, and encourages social relations among participants. The g
In order to enhance the unique character of the Botanical Garden and maintain the original scheme, a sequence of exhibition galleries are added to connect new and old as well as a series of glass volumes that emulate the existing greenhouses. The gr
The project includes a new visitors’ center, a floating stage and several greenhouses for the 19th century Dutch park, famous for its flora and fauna, but also for the many artistic events and exhibitions it holds throughout the year...
In the middenstraat of Gits, one of the roadson the edge of this town in Flemish Belgium, neighbors still use exposed brick in pale shades and sloping tile roofs to build their homes, most of them relatively recent. Taking up a rectangular plot, the
On the outskirts of Tokyo, where the hustle of city life gives way to an orderly landscape of rice fields and greenhouses, a family has made true a dream unattainable for many compatriots: to enjoy a house of more than one hundred square meters. Per
This house is transparent in two ways: because it creates a direct relationship between inside and out and because it illustrates very clearly its aims. A long shed, on one level, with a pitched roof, it is placed quietly in the landscape without dra
Modern architecture has at times interpreted the house as a simulation of outdoor life. Architects have fed on personal fantasies and followed their instincts when immersing inhabitable metaphors in nature, and the Villa Mai re a and Fallingwater are
The entire lifework of Luis Peña Gauchegui could be understood in terms of the postulates of ‘critical regionalism’, the current spearheaded - among others - by the British critic Kenneth Frampton, who preconizes that local traditions be tied to the
