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Juan Carlos Ramos Unveils Amazing Pyramid House Worthy of a Pharaoh. With its sunken living space, triangular glass walls and open plan, the Pyramid House brings an ancient building typology to modern residential architecture. Mexican architect Juan Carlos Ramos designed his Pyramid House for a competition that called for design ideas based on simple geometry, and his subsequent proposal is worthy of a modern-day pharaoh. The Pyramid House features glass walls that offer exceptional views of the surrounding landscape and allow natural light to penetrate its deepest corners. The openings vary from narrow slits to large glass planes and alternate in a way that gives the building a dynamic appearance that contrasts the static look of the geometry.

Distributed across several levels of the pyramidal volume are two bedrooms, a library, kitchen, bathrooms, garage and even a recording studio. A cantilevered balcony is situated near the top of the building between the bathroom and library. + Juan Carlos Ramos Via W3SH, Curbed. The Pyramid Code is a TV documentary series. ‪free energy from pyramid 2/2‬‏ Possible Pyramids Discovered From Space. Hide captionA satellite image shows a field of what may be buried pyramid sites in Egypt.

Courtesy of DigitalGlobe Images A satellite image shows a field of what may be buried pyramid sites in Egypt. hide captionSarah Parcak examines satellite imagery of an Egyptian landscape. Courtesy of BBC Sarah Parcak examines satellite imagery of an Egyptian landscape. When you think archeology, you think shovels, brushes, brooms and other time-honored tools used to uncover archeological treasures. By studying infrared images taken by NASA satellites, Sarah Parcak and her team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham identified the suspected pyramids in Tanis, Egypt.

"What these satellites do is they record light radiation that's reflected off the surface of the Earth in different parts of the light spectrum," Parcak explains to NPR's Rachel Martin. Those subtle differences are an archaeologist's clues to what might lie under a rice paddy or a city street. BOSNIAN PYRAMID - Visocica Hill, is the first European pyramid to be discovered and is located in the heart of Bosnia, in the town of Visoko.

Pyramidssnow.jpg (441×454) 'Le Sphinx Armachis, Caire' (The Sphinx Armachis, Cairo) Pyramid Farm is a Vision of Vertical Agriculture for 2060. The Pyramid Farm is an incredible concept for the future of agriculture envisioned by professors Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier. The design is based on the growing belief (is it fact yet?) That vertical farming will soon become a necessary lifeline in cities throughout the world. The human population is growing exponentially and increasingly more urban while the global food supply is decreasing. Despommier speculates that if nothing is done to advance current farming techniques, 3 billion people could face starvation by 2060. The Vertical Farm Project, grown out of one of Despommier’s class projects at Columbia University, features urban farming concepts and resources in hopes of securing the world’s food supply by design.

Beyond creating a sustainable and local source for food, Despommier envisions a healing process for today’s horizontal farms. . + The Vertical Farm Project. Lunar Cubit: Gigantic Solar Pyramids to Power Abu Dhabi. The motto of these sleek black pyramids is “Renewable Energy Can Be Beautiful.” No, the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas did not suddenly develop a green streak — the project, called Lunar Cubit, is a pyramid-shaped solar power complex designed to power thousands of homes in the Abu Dhabi desert. The proposal placed first in the Land Art Generator Initiative, a contest which asks designers to integrate art and interdisciplinary processes with the concept of renewable energy. Each proposed project must generate enough green energy to power thousands of homes, while also serving as an innovative public art installation. Lunar Cubit consists of eight small glossy solar panel pyramids that surround a central large pyramid in a semi circle.

The pyramids act as a lunar calendar, and the central pyramid is inversely illuminated according to the phases of the moon — meaning it is at full illumination with the new moon. By day, the pyramids function as solar energy-producing power plants. . + Lunar Cubit.