Smart City

This week’s school lecture introduced information about smart city, and the lecturer focused on the development of smart city in Sydney and India. Smart city is a very interesting concept, firstly, Smart city needs to collect big data. Secondly, it needs to further analyze the data and filter out useful information. Finally, the government needs […]

Will the timber structure become the future trend?

From the perspective of world architectural history, Western classical architecture mainly uses stone, while East Asia has the tradition of using timber to build palaces. The use of timber has lasted for nearly a thousand years in the history of Chinese architecture. Chinese traditional wooden buildings are connected by mortise and tenon joint, but due […]

The PET Pavilion

The PET Pavilion, designed by the construction companies Project.DWG and LOOS.FM, is a temporary building in a Dutch community park. The pavilion focuses on sustainable building, recycling and waste by rethinking the way it is built, developed and used. The building itself is a study of plastic waste as a building material. The building used […]

The Longhouse

Professor John Klein and his students in the MIT design a large community center with a large amount of timber called The Longhouse, which is 40 feet tall and made of veneered lumber (LVL). This new type of engineered timber product can withstand high levels of pressure. This material supports the huge enclosed space of […]

Sustainable fashion

The fashion industry has become the second largest environmental pollution industry in the world, second only to the petrochemical industry. The negative impact of the clothing on the environment should not be underestimated. The booming development of the fashion industry has also accelerated resource consumption and environmental pollution. When it comes to pollution, we usually […]

Green buildings in Singapore – Marina one

Marina one is a mixed-use building including residential and office located in the financial district of Singapore, close to the Marina Bay. It is one of two projects that Malaysia and Singapore governments decided to exchange to developed. Designed by the German architecture firm – Ingenhoven. In the context of population growth and climate change, […]

The Biophilic Design

The biophilic design is an innovative design method for the living, working and leisure space of people, and is an exploration of natural architecture. High-level biophilic design creates a space that is inspiring and helps to restore the body’s function. At the same time, the space is functionally integrated with the location and the ecological […]

Environmental crisis that we are facing nowadays – Disappearing bees

Whether it is ‘X-Files’ or ‘Black Mirror’, artificial bees appear more and more in film and television productions. This also reflects a cruel fact: bees in the nature world are disappearing. Bees, is this little insect disappearing influence greatly on humans? In fact, bees are not only insects, but also important species that ensure ecological […]

Environmental crisis that we are facing nowadays – Sand shortage

Perhaps not many people have realized that we are facing a shortage of sand. Sand is the basic raw material for most of the manufacturing industry, various items we use in everyday are inseparable from sand. In addition to air and water, sand is the third largest natural resource we consume. Worldwide, 50 billion tons […]