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Eco Factor: Modular home generates solar and wind electricity, harvests rainwater.
Designed by Michael Jantzen, the Homestead House is a design for alternative housing that explores the potential use of renewable energy generating systems and...
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Eco Factor: Interior garden keeps your interiors away from peeps and provides fresh air.
Why cut a tree in your backyard to get some space for your deck when you can...
made popular Jul 2 2009
Eco Factor: Sustainable growing shelter evolves with seasons.
Designers at XLXS have created the GrowShelter for people who want to live a sustainable life in the...
made popular Jul 1 2009
Eco Factor: Energy efficient systems and wind turbines to grace Sears Tower.
Often being criticized as one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gases, the Sears...
made popular Jun 25 2009
Eco Factor: Dormitories made from locally harvested bamboo collect rainwater.
Architecture firm TYIN Tegnestue has designed sustainable dwellings that will serve as...
made popular Jun 24 2009
Eco Factor: Recyclable home is powered by renewable energy.
Whenever you build a new home, the size of the family is the main consideration according to which the...
made popular Jun 22 2009
Eco Factor: Solar-powered high-rise tower for Rotterdam.
Dutch architecture firm, Monolab, has designed a high-rise tower for Rotterdam that will definitely be like a...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Eco Factor: Off-grid sustainable home by Enter Architecture
Who says green living needs to be minimalist and devoid of any luxuries, when architects like Enter...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Eco Factor: Solar harnessing architecture by Studio Shift.
In a bid to green the skyline of Taiwan, Studio Shift has designed a modern complex for Taiwan’s Center...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Eco Factor: Office tower uses passive solar technique to reduce energy consumption.
If you go and ask architects about the only place in the world where most of their...
made popular Jun 11 2009
Eco factor: Sustainable complex for Seoul is designed with a green roof.
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park designed by Zaha Hadid, winner of the Pritzker...
made popular Jun 10 2009
Eco Factor: Observation tower harnesses solar energy for electricity.
XTEN Architecture’s entry to the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Competition in Dubai has been designed...
made popular Jun 8 2009
Eco Factor: Skyscraper with a rooftop-based ecosystem.
Whenever it comes to vertical farming, people mostly envision high-rise buildings where veggies are grown at...
made popular Jun 8 2009
Eco Factor: Home built from trashed beer bottles.
We’ve probably seen hundreds of uses of old beer bottles, and though many DIYers plan out products that take no...
made popular Jun 8 2009
Eco Factor: Sustainable garden pod includes a green roof.
If you are one of those people who always feels connected with nature, then the Roost eco-friendly garden pod...
made popular Jun 5 2009
Eco Factor: Self-sufficient eco-system to solve food crisis.
Researchers are of the opinion that the exponential growth in human population and the lack of land...
made popular Jun 4 2009
Eco Tech: Bubble tower is powered by clean solar energy.
With the advent of summer, outdoor events are the hot topic of discussion. People, especially children, need...
made popular Jun 3 2009
Eco Factor: Sustainable skyscraper for Mexico generates solar electricity.
Designed to bring Mexico on the green map of the world, Jorge Hernandez de la Garza...
made popular Jun 1 2009
Eco Factor: Solar-powered street market concept.
In an era where multi-story shopping malls have transformed the process of buying goods and services, Israeli...
made popular May 30 2009
Eco Factor: Energy-efficient data center to be built for Syracuse University.
Syracuse University will house a new data center that will consume about half as much...
made popular May 30 2009
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Eco Factor: Wind and solar powered structure for multiple uses.
Michael Jantzen has always amazed us with some stunning creations that show a different and a green...
made popular May 16 2009
Eco Factor: A self-sufficient house design made up of sustainable non-toxic wood and installed with photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines.
Michael Jantzen ,...
made popular Jan 2 2009
Convertible objects are no longer a big deal in the design world. But the idea of a convertible workplace or structure could be whimsical and some may even rubbish such...
made popular Oct 11 2008
Eco Factor: Solar powered public structures that are built from eco-friendly material and are easy to construct and relocate.
Michael Jantzen is known for creating...
made popular Sep 20 2008
Beach bums and outdoorsy people usually complain of sunburns and un-comfy seating options. And those who do overcome them with suntan lotions or cushions usually pop...
made popular Aug 27 2008
Created by Architect Michael Jantzen, the Wind Turbine Observation Tower is a futuristic power generation concept that seeks to eliminate the poisonous coal-based...
made popular Jun 26 2008
In the last few months we have been fortunate to see some of the greenest green designs when it concerns to buildings and towers across the planet. They have ranged...
made popular Apr 7 2008
I have always been a firm believer that natural freshness and goodness is almost unmatched when it comes to soothing the restless mind and the tired senses. While most...
made popular Mar 5 2008
M-velope 2 is one of Michael Jantzen’s latest functional art designs for a transformable structure. It is created to provide a special place for personal...
made popular Jan 2 2008
Michael Jantzen’s work is continuously gaining attention (to explore the possibilities of utilizing alternative energy systems in architecture). His latest...
made popular Nov 14 2007
Michael Jantzen is a well-known designer and artist whose work has been published in numerous magazines, books and newspapers namely, Architecture magazine,...
made popular Nov 14 2007
It is astonishing to see such a marvelous piece of work, blending creative art, architecture and renewable energy to surpass the boundaries of imagination and...
made popular Oct 26 2007
The design turns architecture into a source of generating renewable energy, an idea, way beyond the wind turbine. This Wind Shaped Pavilion is a concept design form...
made popular Jul 23 2007
Designed to function off-the-grid, where photovoltaic cells and a small vertical axis wind turbine generate the required amount of electricity to power the home, the...
made popular Jul 2 2009
The Revolutionarium by Michael Jantzen is a conceptual design of a special kind of prefabricated, modular, interactive, functional art structure, which is designed to...
made popular May 16 2009
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