The Cabin Room Hotel
En suecia nos encontramos con este novedoso concepto de hotel basado en la cooperacion de conocidos arquitectos y diseñadores que dan como resultado una colección única de habitciones entre medio de árboles como denominador común. Esto abre una nueva dimensión en términos de ecoturismo y de estar metido en el corazón mismo de la naturaleza.
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Society of Amateur Ornithologists (Emscher Kunt 2010 / RUHR, Cultural Capital of Europe), river Emscher – Germany (2010). Proyecto, Mark Dion. Fotografías, Roman Mensing.
En el marco de los actividades organizadas entorno a la “capitalidad cultural europea 2010″ de la región del Ruhr, “Emscher Kunt 2010” organiza un eje fluvial, sobre el que se desarrollan un conjunto de acciones dirigidas a consensuar las bases para el desarrollo “post-industrial” de la cuenca.
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Jeffrey Inaba of Inaba Projects has a new pavilion on display now in Rome, sponsored by Enel, Italy’s largest utilities provider. Because of that sponsorship, Inaba “wanted to use numerous forms of alternative energy applications,” but decided, in the end, to apply “just one that was highly productive and cost effective.” The pavilion is thus solar-powered – Inaba describes it as an “Alice in Wonderland mushroom meets solar-ray chomping Pac-Man.”
read more10 Things to Consider in Using Shipping Containers
Modern day pioneer John Wells is doing some interesting work in Alpine, Texas. On his desert swath in The Field Lab, which is also referred to as The Southwest Texas Alternative Energy and Sustainable Living Field Laboratory, Wells is living off the grid and maintaining an interesting (and humorous) journal in the process.
Eco Cabin for Camp Emerald Bay Scouts
Richard Hammond and Gensler’s Santa Monica office contributed to a unique container project for a Boy Scouts’ campground in Emerald Bay (on Catalina Island off the coast of southern California). According to Metropolis, the low-impact cabin was made with old shipping containers, reclaimed lumber, durable rubber flooring, LED lighting, and solar photovoltaics. The roof — which is, perhaps, more eye-catching than the transformed containers — was made with a stretched silicone-coated fiberglass material.
The built prototype presents a new and sustainable, albeit less rustic, vision for scouting. All together, 20 more container cabins will be built at Camp Emerald Bay.