The Green house of the Future in the Wall Street Journal. William McDonough + Partners The Wall Street Journal asked four architects to: design an energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living. The idea was not to dream up anything impossible or unlikely -- in other words, no antigravity living rooms. Instead, we asked the architects to think of what technology might make possible in the next few decades.
They in turn asked us to rethink the way we live. The results are fascinating. William McDonough + Partners envisions its house like a tree. Cook + Fox's house reacts to the weather, turning dark in the bright sun to insulate the house from heat and turning clear on dark days to absorb light and heat. The Rios Clementi Hale Studios house has a garden façade that includes chickpeas, tomatoes and other plants. The Mouzon Design house uses tomorrow's technologies -- as well as ancient techniques to reduce energy use.
More in the Wall Street Journal. Back to the Future | James Howard Kunstler. A road map for tomorrow's cities by James Howard Kunstler I LOVE THOSE CITIES-of-the-future illustrations from the old pop-culture bin. In “yesterday’s tomorrow,” they always get things so wonderfully wrong. One of my favorites, from the August 1925 issue of Popular Science Monthly, depicts a heroic cross section of New York’s Park Avenue looking to the south from around 47th Street in the far-off sci-fi future of 1950. The illustration is a beautifully rendered black-and-white lithograph, and the layout of this future New York is impeccably rational down to the pneumatic “freight tubes” in the lowest subbasement of the buildings.
Another favorite of mine in this genre, done in the mid-1950s to portray the far-off year 2000, depicts a city of towers cut through with swooping super-duper highways. In other words, most visions of the future are really less about the future and more about what’s happening now. I depart from a lot of current thinking on the subject. Bye Bye Beaver. S-HOUSE. The Original Green. Schwimmende Stadt „Lilypad“ zeigt visionäres Nomadentum auf | Stadtentwicklung - Urbanisierung - Städte im Trend. Vertikale Gärten - die grüne Architektur von Patrick Blanc. Zuletzt aktualisiert: 21.06.2010 um 14:11 Uhr Weltweit faszinieren uns die "murs végétals" des Franzosen Patrick Blanc, die wir auf Brücken, in Hotels, an Museumswänden und in Läden finden. Blanc gelingt es, mit seinen vertikal positionierten Grünanlagen, Architektur und Botanik zu vereinen. Foto © Patrick Blanc Die begrünte Fassade des Musée du Quai Branly in Paris Der promovierte Botaniker machte erstmals 1994 beim Festival des Jardins in Chaumont-sur-Loire auf sich aufmerksam und erlangte internationalen Ruhm, als er 1998 die Außenseite des Pariser Kunstmuseums Fondation Cartier begrünte.
Es folgten die Fassade des Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, den Innenhof des Hotels "Pershing Hall", die Mur Végétal an der Fassade der Galeries Lafayette in Berlin oder die 600-m²-Wand am Caixa-Forum in Madrid. Pflanzen auf Filz Da das Wasser in Bewegung ist, nehmen die Pflanzen nur so viel Wasser auf, wie sie benötigen. Gegen Luftverschmutzung. SINNRAUM - Willkommen auf der Homepage von Gunter Dueck. Futurist Speaker Thomas Frey – Celebrity Keynote, Futurologist, Kanal von MaxPlanckSociety. Water | Little Homestead in the City.