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This Innovation Turns Solar Cell Technology Completely Transparent. Windows don’t typically do a whole lot more than let natural light in and a person’s gaze out, but what if solar cell technology had the potential to double as an invisible ...
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This Outdoor Pop-Up Office Brings People and Nature Together This beautiful outdoor pop-up office is essentially a pod that surrounds the trunk of one large tree. The space is called ‘TREExOFFICE’ and is designed to bring people together in a ...
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Where most wind turbines generate electricity through mechanical energy, the EWICON (short for Electrostatic WInd energy CONvertor) creates potential energy with charged particles – in this case, water droplets. The current design consists of a steel frame holding a series ...
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The New ‘Ecocapsule’ Homes Make It Easy to Live Off the Grid. The new ‘Ecocapsule’ micro homes are the latest innovation in contemporary off-the-grid living. Designed by the Slovakian team ‘Nice Architects,’ the Ecocapsule offers a portable housing solution that ...
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This Forest in Madrid Has a Comforting Office Space for One Company This unique office space in Madrid has been designed within a forest outside the city. A Spanish architecture firm called Selgas Cano had developed this office by including ...
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This Smart Facade Blocks Light When Exposed to Strong Sunlight Researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology have created a “smart facade” that offers better performance as well as energy savings. Developed as part of a ...
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The Mini Egg House is the Perfect Office for Those on-the-Go Office spaces can be cramped, and if you travel for a living there isn’t much opportunity for structure in your work environment, but with the Mini Egg House you ...
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German architect André Broessel developed as a stand-alone power charger station for electro-mobility, the project uses the advantageous strategy of implementing a ball lens and specific geometrical structure to improve energy efficiency by 35% when compared to existing photo-voltaic panels. ...
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The wind shaped pavilion is a design proposal for a large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavillion. As a lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each of the six segments around ...