Content by: M55 Bike Hungary Kft – www.m55-bike.com
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The M55 Terminus is a “Luxurious Toy”. It is built for everyday use so its rider could feel himself extraordinary. This e-bicycle bears an innovative electric motor which makes the riding much more easier but doesn’t eliminate the need of human power. With the motor assist, you can ride everywhere and even make yourself fitter.
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Content by: PinkCloud.DK – www.pinkcloud.dk
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The Oil Silo Home,designed by PinkCloud.DK in Berlin, recycles oil silos by transforming them into affordable houses!
An oil silo is a storage container for compressed liquefied petroleum gas. There are approximately 49,000 oil silos in over 660 oil refineries worldwide! As the human population increases at an exponential rate, oil discovery decreases at an exponential rate. Soon all existing oil silos will be abandoned as fuel storage containers.
The Oil Silo Home is a 100% self-supporting housing solution for the post-oil world. It’s highly structurally stable, waterproof, efficient to assemble and disassemble, and has the capacity for prefabrication and mass production. Waste and embodied energy are dramatically reduced by the Oil Silo Home. The silo’s spherical shape optimizes surface area for collecting solar energy.As a carbon-positive design, the Oil Silo Home can actually contribute energy back into the grid.
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Content by: Georgia Museum of Art – www.georgiamuseum.org
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The Georgia Museum of Art opened its expanded and remodeled building January 29, 2011. One year later, it has officially been LEED Certified Gold.
To achieve the museum’s programmatic and sustainability goals, its staff worked closely with the Office of University Architects (OUA) to design a structure that would nearly triple the museum’s gallery space and improve the environmental quality of the site. Early on, the design team elected to employ an independent firm, SSRCx, to track, document, verify and advise on how to achieve LEED points. Throughout the design and construction process, the design architect (Gluckman-Mayner Architects, New York), the architect of record (Stanley Beaman & Sears, Atlanta), Holder Construction, OUA and museum staff worked hard to weigh short-term and life-cycle costs to achieve their sustainability goals, ensure proper documentation for LEED credit and meet budget and programmatic restraints.
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Content by: Rodrigo Alonso – www.ralonso.com
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100% Recycled, Crushed and Rotomoulded Plastic Furniture
Plastic waste obtained from electronic devices, toys, drink trays, stadium seats, etc, is used in very few end products due to the complexity of separating the various categories, leading only to generate poorly esthetic products. The Rotomoulded technique, with its beauty and simplicity, allows this to take over, transforming the result in a different, identifiable real object. What you get are beautiful, durable and new conceptually pieces.
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N+EW Light is the continuation of his investigation in the use of e-waste materials for interior and exterior design. This product was a process made on 2007 and it became in a new line of urban furniture that took the principal kind of waste obtained from this investigation about waste: Plastic.
N+EW Light is produced by rotomolding, where low density plastic is mixed with the plastic of the crushed electronic waste shaping an irreverent diffuser molded in an also recycled iron matrix. Its base is produced with smelted aluminum of beer and drink tins amongst others. Together they form this 32 x 32 x 32 cm piece.
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Content by: Dave Hakkens – www.davehakkens.nl
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Usually when a building/bathroom/shed etc. is being demolished a completely new one takes over its place. This is done without leaving any trace of what has been there before, perhaps a little picture on the wall but that’s it. Dave Hakkens was interested in using the materials from the old building in the new one.
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