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The Open Source House Project (English spoken)

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:29:10 +0000

To overcome housing problems such as expensive building materials and inefficient construction methods, Open Source House created 8 eco-architectural principles. Which stimulate the design of affordable and flexible house components to build sustainable housing in developing countries

Do you want to participate in the competition?
check http://www.os-house.org

Duration : 0:1:27

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Inhabitat Talks with Michelle Kaufmann

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:26:43 +0000

Jill Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat talks with Michelle Kaufmann, architect of mkdesigns, about her new Lotus House on display during the 2007 West Coast Green Conference, SF.
longer version: http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/10/09/mklotus/

Duration : 0:6:10

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Sustainable Modular design

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:51:32 +0000

Modern design using sip panels and some of the latest tech for eco-design for more info please check us out at www.archiopolis.com Low Rider was written by the band War and appeared on their album Why Can’t We Be Friends?, released in 1975

Duration : 0:3:10

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Sustainable Unit – Super Adobe House

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:51:08 +0000

Video made by João Amorim, edited by Pedro Tarragô about the building process of a sustainable unit – Super Adobe House. More information at www.postmoderntimes.com

Duration : 0:3:45

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sustainable landscape architecture

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:20:43 +0000

It is video of sustainable design, and it is an english homework.

Duration : 0:2:23

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Stupid Design

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:20:26 +0000

This is an from a presentation by Neil deGrasse Tyson at the 2006 Beyond Belief conference. Neil is the director of the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center For Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. In this Powerpoint entitled “Stupid Design” Tyson points out some of the glaring evidence for a universe without a designer.

Duration : 0:5:3

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Green Home Design

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:20:08 +0000

Green home design used to be popular because of tax credits. Green home design includes energy efficiency and designing for your climate. Green home design is sustainable and can be a reflection of the self. Learn more about green home design from author and architect Sarah Susanka.

Duration : 0:4:22

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Autodesk Revit Sustainable BIM Software – buildaroo.com

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:21:42 +0000

Autodesk is one of the leading manufacturers of architectural design software. At this year’s Greenbuild conference, the Buildaroo News Team interviewed Catherine from Autodesk about the company’s Revit software, which is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) software that helps you explore early design concepts and forms. And the essential building information modeling (BIM) data that Autodesk Revit Architecture software provides can be used to support sustainable design, clash detection, construction planning, and fabrication. Michael from Autodesk walks us through the system’s sustainable features as well as its unique built-in weather database in the above video.

Some sustainable features built into the system include:
- water and energy use
- PV use
- LEED credits
- daylighting
- light controls and occupancy sensors
- carbon emissions
- insulation
- HVAC
- wall and roof construction
- The system allows you to generate an estimated energy bill and to then work on design alternatives to decrease energy cost.

Another really useful and unique feature of this system is its large built-in weather data base. Green Building studio draws from 1.6 million weather stations around the world and therefore ensures that the weather conditions you use in your design are accurate to that area.

Duration : 0:6:32

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Berkeley Students Design Nanocity, India’s Silicon Valley

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:42:51 +0000

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/08/Planning_India_From_Chandigarh_to_NanoCity

Architecture professor Susan Ubbelohde discusses her trip to India with three departments of UC Berkeley students to help plan Nanocity, a sustainable 21st century Indian metropolis designed to emulate Silicon Valley.

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swissnex San Francisco invites a panel of experts to discuss the past and future of urban planning in India, highlighting two examples: Chandigarh, a city mandated by the Nehru government in the 1950s and designed by Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and NanoCity, a yet-to-be-built metropolis initiated by entrepreneur (and Hotmail co-founder) Sabeer Bhatia and designed by the Berkeley Group for Architecture and Planning.

In many ways, these two cities suggest a shift from municipalities planned by governments to ones dreamed up by influential individuals. They may also herald a transition of power from the hands of political decision-makers to those of the business world. Even the function of cities themselves seems up for reinvention. Where Chandigarh was established as an administrative capital, NanoCity aspires to be a hub for education and high-tech. – Swissnex San Francisco

Susan Ubbelohde is a professor of architecture in the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches design studios and seminars in sustainable design, lighting design, high performance facades, and architectural theory. She is a principal of Loisos + Ubbelohde Associates, a design and consulting firm based in Alameda, California, focused on high performance and sustainable design.

Ubbelohde has directed research for the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the University of California Energy Institute, and the California Institute for Energy Efficiency on daylighting design, daylighting software, climate responsive design, and monitored building performance. She has authored numerous publications, participates on a variety of technical review committees, and lectures on environmental design and energy-related topics throughout the U.S.

Duration : 0:3:31

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e2 design — China: From Red to Green? podcast

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:36:39 +0000

This is the fifth in a series of video podcasts from the new PBS series e2 design. The podcasts take you beyond the issues explored in each episode and deeper into the world of sustainable design. In this episode, director Tad Fettig discusses what it was like to film in China, and how it impacted his views on the future of green architecture.

Duration : 0:4:31

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