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A collection of essays in which twelve experts in green architecture and urbanism share their thoughts on the clash between perceptions of sustainable housing and the desire for traditional homes and offices, and possible solutions to the problem
A collection of essays in which twelve experts in green architecture and urbanism share their thoughts on the clash between perceptions of sustainable housing and the desire for traditional homes and offices, and possible solutions to the problem.
The key principles used by ecovillages (renewable energies, waste recycling, water consumption, voluntary simplicity and degrowing economies, shared governance) are recalled, bringing into light...
- Volontariat Home for Homeless Children
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Non-profit Afordable Housing on Dortheavej
- 2 ZERO HUNGER End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Impact Farm
- Origin/team
- The Magoda Project
- Contribution
- Konditaget Lüders – the fitness roof Lüders
- Maggie’s at the Robert Parfe Building
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- 4 QUALITY EDUCATION Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Frederiksbjerg School
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Origin/team
- 5 GENDER EQUALITY Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Origin/team
- Wonder Wood – a loop of movement
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Warka Tower
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- The Living Machine
- Ensure access to afordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- Powerhouse Kjørbo
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Øvre Forsland Hydropower Plant
- Origin/team
- Paramit – factory in the forest
- Origin/team
- Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- SiteCover
- Origin/team
- Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- Kvadrat Soft Cells
- Contribution
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Kamppi Chapel of Silence
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- The House of the Disabled People’s Organization
- Contribution
- Low Impact Living Afordable Community
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Contribution
- Ensure sustainable consumption and production paterns
- DESI Training Center
- Contribution
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Origin/team
- Lindevangs Park
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Most of the built environment is situated on land, but its activities afect the oceans
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Contribution
- Red Ribbon Park
- Contribution
- Novo Nordisk Nature Park
- The Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion
- Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build efective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- In order to advance the SDGs we need efective and inclusive public institutions that can deliver quality education and healthcare, fair economic policies and inclusive environmental protection.1
- The International Criminal Court in Hague
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Contribution
- The Climate Tile
- Contribution
- Origin/team
- Architecture without borders, Magburaka Education and Computer Center
- Contribution
Everyone has a right to have a home. Poor people in the world has no or very litle money to invest in a home, making it important for architects to design and experiment with typologies and solutions that are decent, afordable and which can be built without the use of expensive tools or materials.
The Volontariat Home for Homeless Children in Pondicherry, India, can accommodate 15 children and 5 foster parents. It has been designed as an experiment using a rare technology developed by Ray Meeker from Golden Bridge Potery, which consists of baking a mud house in situ, after constructing it. Keeping the cost low has been a very important eleme...
Anupama Kundoo with technical support from Ray Meeker, Volontariat NGO, M. Vinayagam Photo: Alka Hingorani
Building homes with spatial qualities on a strict budget is a con-straint for all social housing associations operating in Denmark. Due to the present market conditions, this challenge is geting harder to overcome.
How do we grow, share and consume our food in more sustain-able ways? If done right, agriculture, forestry and fisheries can provide nutritious food for all and generate decent incomes, while supporting people-centered rural development and pro-tecting the environment. However, right now, our soils, freshwater, oceans, forests and biodiversity are ...
The increasing urbanization and expansion of cities into mega cities make awareness of resilience, resource eficiency and food security more and more important. Resources and time spent on transport and provision of some basic food, can be saved by local farming. Also shortage of water and energy in many places, makes it important to innovate cropp...
Human Habitat, Miljøpunkt Nørrebro, Realdania, Photo: Human Habitat
In sub-Saharan Africa, many infectious diseases including Malaria are acquired in and around the home. There are great demands to improve the health of local residents, specifically through improving the space, they spend the majority of their time in – the home. Low-cost houses prevalent in rural Africa usually consist of mud or brick walls with f...
The Magoda Project is a series of eight prototype homes constructed in a rural village in the Tanga region of Tanzania. The project explores design elements of traditional Asian and African homes to generate a variety of new and improved housing designs to minimize diseases. The eight houses integrate Asian architectural features (to optimize airfl...
Two-thirds of all persons with diabetes live in cities making it important to design urban spaces that support good health and well-being by focusing and enabling physical exercise. Public urban space is scarce and shall accommodate multiple functions such as infrastructure, parking of cars and bicycles and street furniture like benches and signs. ...
The ability to recover from serious illness can be positively influ-enced by architecture. Refuges have throughout history been used as a sanctuary for diseased, based on the belief that silence and clean air could cure. Modern research supports the belief that certain design can optimize the efect of treatment, such as daylight, atmosphere afected...
Maggie’s Centre ofers free practical, emotional and social support to people with cancer and their families in Britain. The concept of the centres is inspired by Maggie Keswick Jencks, who began to look to architecture to lift the spirits and help in the process of recovery. The design of the centre in Manchester is arranged over a single storey, k...
Foster + Partners, HE Simm, Gardiner & Theobald, Dan Pearson Studio, Maggie's Photos: Nigel Young-Foster + Partners
Obtaining quality education is the foundation to creating sus-tainable development. In addition to improving quality of life, access to inclusive education can help equip locals with the tools required to develop innovative solutions to the world’s greatest problems. The reasons for lack of quality education are due to lack of ad-equately trained t...
With the Avasara Academy founder Roopa Purushothaman aims at changing the mindset and value of girls in India, giving them education, role models and confidence, which can empower them to create positive change in the communities surrounding them. Located in the outskirts of Pune, India, Avasara is a full-time residential academy focusing on develo...
Avasara Academy, Case Design, Malene Bach, Pratik Raval of Transsolar KlimaEngineering Photo: Case Design Photos: Ariel Huber
Physical exercise is beneficial for the learning ability of children, and research proves that high-intensity physical exercise just after class is beneficial for long-term memory. Still learning envi-ronments in many schools foster inactivity or uninspiring in- and outdoor spaces, making it dificult to engage everyone in the short breaks between c...
Frederiksbjerg School is a public primary and lower secondary school in Aarhus, Denmark, which is designed to promote physical activity. It is one of the first schools designed to meet a Danish law requiring that children should get more exercise during the school day. The team has incorporated physical challenges in the journey from A to B by reth...
Henning Larsen, Hofmann, GPP Architects, Niras Møller og Grønborg, City of Aarhus
Emergency Architecture & Human Rights (EAHR), Acting for Change Jordan, Social Science advisor: Jawhara Hammuh Photos: Martina Bo Rubino Photo: Martina Bo Rubino
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.1 Yet, gender inequality persists worldwide, depriving women and girls of their basic rights and opportunities. Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will require more vigorous eforts, includi...
Client: St Jerome’s Centre Design Team: Orkidstudio Structural Engineer: Structuremode Contractor: Orkidstudio Photos: Orkidstudio
Research indicates that women and men have diferent pre-ferences when it comes to physical exercise and facilities that support it. This also applies to kids, and a special efort to engage girls in exercise during school hours calls for designs that support their wishes.
The overall aim with the design of the new schoolyard in Skørping School, Denmark was to engage a broader number of kids in physical exercise including girls. Surveys on young kids and their movement paterns reveal that boys spread out and occupy open spaces, whereas girls cluster and occupy edge zones. By weaving the schoolyard and the surrounding...
VEGA landskab Rebild Municipality Frandsen & Søndergaard Skørping School management Drøn på Skolegården: Realdania, Lokale og Anlægsfonden, Kræftens Bekæmpelse Photos: Leif Tuxen for the Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities
In Ethiopia major health problems are caused by the spread of diseases perpetuated by the lack of clean water and sanitation systems. Often contaminated by human and animal waste, water quality is severely poor. The impact of tainted water on the health of communities is significant.
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF-Int) is a network of inde-pendent non-profit organizations, which enable vulnerable communities to access architectural services, research and educational resources. It was founded in France in 1979 and has member organizations all over the world. Members run building and planning projects in countrie...
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