Enhancing Sustainable Building in Latin America: The CLESAL Project

How to face global warming is one of the main challenges we face today as a society. Its impact on biodiversity and natural resources has led to the collective search for sustainable strategies to reduce its negative environmental effects.

A City's Trash is Not It's Treasure: How is New York Tackling its Garbage Issues?

The scene is almost identical, no matter which borough of New York City you’re in. Narrow sidewalks are lined by mountains of trash bags and other large objects, waiting for their turn to be taken away by the fleet of sanitary workers and trucks who will dispose of them. Large rodents seek shelter in their temporary plastic homes, feeding on discarded scraps, becoming a regular sighting for New York City residents. The City That Never Sleeps has a bigger problem than the flashing lights and noisy streets- it’s all of the trash that’s left to sit out on the sidewalks.

FBV WP House / Studio Gabriel Garbin Arquitetura

The concept of FBV WP house is based on a deep analysis of each one of the landscape elements as well as the owners’ lifestyle. The volumes’ composition has been elaborated in such a way that the residents’ gaze would be drawn into the plot’s interior, with the preserved wooded area – the project’s great actor – as background. Factoring in elements like the sun, the woods, the pool, and the time that will be spent among friends, we devised an L-shaped building that faces the sunset. The center of the plot is the point people look towards and where they spend time together. The perception of inside and outside space changes every so often.

The Hermitage Cabin / Ilabb

We are in the Trebbia Valley in Italy, in the heart of the Apennines between Liguria and Emilia, in a land far from everything, not well-known and wild. Here, on the traces of steep ancient terraces, the whole studio has built, in an unusual workshop, a wooden structure. Completely dry-mounted and detached from any utility network. Drawing inspiration from Japanese teahouses and cabins encountered in Scandinavian forests, the project explores an original idea of space and environment.

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