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Architect Cord Siegel has on commission by the energy company E.ON drawn eight urban smart energy homes with an estimated annual heating demand of only 65 kWh per m2. The houses aim to combine durability with aesthetically thought through design, to achieve quality of life. Smart technology keeps the energy use low and the inhabitants will have the possibility to produce their own electricity and own water. The residents will be able to grow their own plants at home in their own heated and adjustable conservatory and enjoy swimming and bath in the common facilities, heated with pure waste heat all year round.
Another architecture related item, and another award!
The architect Anders Nyquist received the award “Lifetime Achievement Award” during the World Congress for Zero Emission for his lifelong efforts to passionately build energy efficient and ecologically.
Important for people around the world
- It is very stimulating and enjoyable to get this award for the work to develop and enhance solutions to build ecologically and energy efficient.
Four rather dissimilar house/living projects with a focus on energy efficiency have caught my attention. Together they can show on possibilities of different ways to decrease our energy consumption and maybe trends as to where climate conscious architecture is heading.
Eco City Augustenborg
The Eco City Augustenborg in Malmö is a borough that has changed course and now has received the World Habitat Award for its work with dialogue that has stimulated involvement among residents, public and private actors. It is in Malmö seen as a testing ground for new sustainable development projects. Read the rest of this entry »
Last Tuesday (25 May) Svensk Form and the Museum of Archtiecture arranged the first of a series of gatherings under the title HållBar. The main attraction at the event was John Manoochehri, Resource Vision and KTH, who talked about sustainable city planning under the heading Future Perfect – When do we reach the sustainable city? A few years ago sustainable city planning would probably have sounded hopelessly dry and boring, but with the current discussion of how we want both our society, the environment and not least our cities to be built this topic seem to draw big audiences each time it is discussed. And this time was no exception, the main room of the Mueseum of Architecture was filled with people, curious to take part in the debate.
This month’s designer column is written by architect and interior designer Fredrik Kjellgren at Kjellgren Kaminsky, an award winning architecture firm based in Göteborg, Sweden. They work with architecture in its broadest meaning ranging from furniture to city planning, from theory to practice. The following text will be written in Swedish, but for those not knowledgable in the language I propose a look at their website, which is all in English. Besides having started his own Architect firm, Fredrik also runs a think tank called SuperSustainable City.
Whether it is better for the climate to live in eco houses on the country side or space efficiently in the cities is one of the big issues for architects and biulding companies nowadays. The solution for the eco conscious has so far been dominated by small scale housing on the countryside with excempts such as Freiburg in Germany and Arendal in Norway. But the advantages with living in a city are many from a climate and resource point of view, disregarding the social ones. Read the rest of this entry »
