Alfred_gustavo. Green Society Association :: Welcome. AirDrop House: Sustainable Housing Solution For Flood-hit Areas - Green Diary. Conceived by architect Andrew Maynard and his team, the AirDrop House is a sustainable housing solution for flood-hit areas. The tiny houses made from dried sponge-like material could be dropped onto the affected areas by standard military aircrafts. The instant floating abodes expand up to a seven meters diameter from original one-meter diameter as soon as it contacts water. It slowly soaks up water and swells into a self-sustaining temporary house. The floating houses come with embedded seeds that sprout over time to create a green roof – a food-producing covering. Via: Inhabitat. “Favela Cloud”: Nuevas Posiblidades Espaciales y Sociales en Rio de Janeiro. Imágenes vía eVolo Favela Cloud es una propuesta conceptual para el futuro desarrollo de la favela de Santa Marta. Se trata de una visión para una nueva forma de construcción de estructuras habitables en la zona.
El diseño propone una alternativa para desarrollar el entorno construido, basándose en las cualidades sociales y de organización de la propia favela. Más información sobre este proyecto de Johan Kure, Usto Kemo y Manickam Thiru a continuación. Basado en la lógica de la auto-organización, la propuesta presenta un sistema aditivo que puede crecer y adaptarse a las condiciones de sitio, flotando por encima de los edificios y la vegetación para utilizar los caminos existentes y las aberturas del sitio.Inspirado por el ladrillo cobogó, ampliamente utilizado en el contexto brasileño, la nube está diseñada para actuar como una sombra urbana, sombreando los espacios abiertos dentro de la nube, así como los públicos por debajo de la plaza.
Vía Plataforma Arquitectura. Futuristic Vertical City Holds Plug-In Hexagonal Housing Units. Share on Tumblr Email Malaysian architect Tay Yee Wei recently unveiled a towering vertical city populated with hexagonal housing units that offer a solution to urban population growth problems in Asian cities. The tower itself serves as a scaffolding — as the population of urban areas fluctuates, modular units can be “plugged in” to the structure to accommodate an expanding population. Wei’s Plug-in Dwelling Development was inspired by Le Corbusier’s theory — “a house is a machine for living.” The project essentially rotates a sprawling community into a vertical orientation. The city puts down the initial costs and retains ownership of the primary structure, which is made of reinforced concrete.
Residents will be able to purchase a “lot” and insert a modular housing unit that can be customized to suit each individual family. The Plug-in Dwelling project assumes that the development will have a longer lifespan than the city that surrounds it. Via eVolo. Oil rig hotel. I’ve been aching to write about hotels for a while now because after all, a good hotel should serve as your “home away from home.” For those of you who have fantasized about spending the night on an oil rig — there must be someone out there — this post’s for you. Renderings of an oceanic destination resort that makes use of one of the thousands of oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico have been making the rounds in the green blogosphere for the last couple days. The design concept, Oil Rig Resort, Spa, and Aquatic Adventure, by Houston-based Morris Architects won the grand prize ($10,000 smackers) at the second annual Radical Innovations in Hospitality design competition.
I think the vision is quite stunning even though I gather you’d need a series pair of sea legs to survive a visit. I also can't help but think of one of cinema's all-time great stinkers, Waterworld, going the Vegas (or Dubai) route. Not only does the resort make use of an abandoned oil rig (talk about creative reuse!) Earthship Biotecture Green Buildings.