Planetary Textiles: Carpeting Rooms with Organic ‘Sea Floor’ Landscapes
These designs convey all of the diverse wonder of coral reefs without having to walk along an actual sea floor (and presumably slice open a foot in the process. Porto-based ...
Tag: ecosystem
Floating Blue: Bold Plan to Expand Dense Cities into Open Seas
Ocean cities are a longstanding Utopian dream, but the majority of such schemes fail to address the immediate need of cramped urban centers, many of which around the world are bordered and ...
Urban Algae Canopy Produces a Forest’s Worth of Oxygen Daily
Generating as much oxygen per day as 400,000 square feet of natural woodland, the Urban Algae Canopy combines architecture, biology and digital technology to create a structure that generates ...
Megablock Microclimate: Urban Treehouse Apartment Complex
Shrouded in 150 trees that absorb 200,000 liters of carbon dioxide per hour, this massive five-story, block-spanning residential building occupies its own protected ...
