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Passive Thermal Comfort Strategies in Residential Projects
Hong Kong Architects Convert Plastic Waste into Public Benches to Combat Pollution
10 Inspiring Interviews of Women In Architecture
The Case for a Feeling Architecture
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Blue Cube Office - Gallery / Darkefaza Design Studio
Cairns Performing Arts Centre / Cox Architecture + CA Architects
Monolocale Effe Apartment / Archiplanstudio
Benjamin Carrión House Renovation / Bernardo Bustamante Arquitectos
Boomerang House / AJG Architects

Passive Thermal Comfort Strategies in Residential Projects

Posted: 11 Mar 2021 09:00 PM PST

The House of Silence / Natura Futura Arquitectura © Lorena Darquea

There was a time when people appreciated self-contained architecture, in which the building envelope would not function as a moderator between the climate outside and the interior environment but rather as an inert and independent barrier. Countless mechanical devices and electrical ventilation, heating, and cooling equipment. A real machine.

Today, architects are increasingly concerned with the interaction between architecture and the environment in which it is inserted, thus assuming responsibility for the thermal comfort of interior spaces, using design strategies for natural climate control.

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Hong Kong Architects Convert Plastic Waste into Public Benches to Combat Pollution

Posted: 11 Mar 2021 08:30 PM PST

The Shing Mun River river in Sha Tin, a residential town in Hong Kong, has struggled with plastic waste pollution for years. Household waste that is not properly recycled will either end up in landfills or floating in the river. In 2018 almost 17 million plastic items, or 40,000 items daily, were found to be drained into the ocean via the Shing Mun River, mostly being food packaging, cutleries, and household plastic bottles. This quantity of plastic pollution in the river and surrounding environment could eventually jeopardize the natural ecosystem irreversibly.

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10 Inspiring Interviews of Women In Architecture

Posted: 11 Mar 2021 08:00 PM PST

The Women's House of Ouled Merzoug / Building Beyond Borders Hasselt University. Image © ArchDaily

In the midst of International Women's Day which was on March 8th, this year features a week-long curation of articles and editorials by ArchDaily, seeking to dissipate the gender disparity that exists in the world of architecture. In highlighting women's voices in architectural conversations - the following are 10 interviews from ArchDaily's archived Youtube playlists that feature inspiring women figures in the world of architecture.

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The Case for a Feeling Architecture

Posted: 11 Mar 2021 07:30 PM PST

Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres in France. Image © Doin | Shutterstock

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

My mother is a psychologist, so our family talks a lot about emotion. More specifically, we discuss the experience of emotion, because, as she likes to remind me and my sisters, "We don't think our feelings—we feel them, in our bodies." According to my mother, it's this experience of emotion that gives our lives a sense of meaning and vitality; as a result, her work isn't about intellectual insight or abstract theories, but rather about giving her patients a new experience of themselves in the world.