Green Life
The patented EarthBox was developed by commercial farmers and proven in the lab and on the farm. Our maintenance-free, award-winning, high-tech growing system controls soil conditions, eliminates guesswork and more than doubles the yield of a conventional garden-with less fertilizer, less water and virtually no effort. (via EarthBox - Home)
We found the Cartesian House through Dwell’s Green Home contest last month. It stuck in our head ever since for its super-smart use of natural ventilation as well as its relationship to a beautiful wooded site. This home, built on a slope in the woods of North Carolina, uses good design to circulate light and air through the space and significantly cut down on energy consumption… (via Apartment Therapy Re-Nest | Cartesian House by Mark Allison)
The weeHouse small is about 350 sf — as you can tell from the images, it’s well designed and packs a big punch. (via Off-Grid weeHouse Small Now $100k - Jetson Green)
Sang Hoon Lee’s newest launch called the ‘ Green Cycler’ may at least rid us from some of the problems, if not all. The mechanism is extremely simple, as the picture indicates all you got to do is add waste food to the plant for the system to start working. (via Green Cycler Is The Newest Method To Remedy Food Wastage - Ecofriend)
The German high-technology giant has decided to try something green for its next series of telephone handsets. On top of that, Siemens is trying to make a bold and beautiful green statement with these cordless phone designs by Fromwelt. (via Apartment Therapy Re-Nest | Siemens Eco Friendly Handsets)
The light and airy structure is also unfettered by doors, leaving you free to simply stroll in and enjoy. A sense of lightness pervades, as the transparent cabin lets the outside environment in. A Dornbrach rain shower fixture enhances the natural experience of the Ciela shower and invites you to linger… perhaps with a partner to make use of the generous space! (via Modern Shower Cabin from Hoesch – the Ciela minimalist design is clearly covetable! | Trendir)
The clean-lined guest unit features an excellent set of sustainable features including LED lighting, recycled insulation, and bamboo flooring, plus it can function completely off-grid with an optional solar panel package. (via Rincon 5 by Marmol Radziner by CubeMe)
A simple parallelogram was developed, relative to the sun’s path, ensuring complete shading throughout the day, yet open on the front and rear to allow sea breezes to naturally cool the house. (via Casa Kike by Gianni Botsford Architects by CubeMe)
Having these in our mind we came up with the design concept to provide the one continuous wall folded in different directions setting up the various views (via CONTEMPORIST » House in Minami Boso by Kiyonobu Nakagame Architects)
Our design lifts the house off the ground on a series of sono-tube formed concrete piers and 8×8 wooden braces allowing minimal site disturbance. (via CONTEMPORIST » The Strickland-Ferris Residence by Frank Harmon)
The steepness of the site, landscape controls and landslip potential resulted in a limited building envelope to work within. These constraints (or opportunities) led us to explore a sensitive yet sculptural response that minimised it footprint by echoing in form a tree with branches, with rooms branching and cantilevering in all directions of a central trunk to take advantage of views, access and aspect. (via Separation Creek House / Jackson Clements Burrows | Arch Daily)
