A Work Of Remembering

littledallilasbookshelf: Brentwood Library, Tennessee

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:12:27 -0400

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Brentwood Library, Tennessee

ryanpanos: Lloyds Interior - photo by Vulture Lab

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:52:18 -0400

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Lloyds Interior - photo by Vulture Lab

abluegirl: Living Wall These vegetated surfaces don’t just...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:50:55 -0400

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Living Wall

These vegetated surfaces don’t just look pretty. They have other benefits as well, including cooling city blocks, reducing loud noises, and improving a building’s energy efficiency.What’s more, a recent modeling study shows that green walls can potentially reduce large amounts of air pollution in what’s called a “street canyon,” or the corridor between tall buildings.

For the study, Thomas Pugh, a biogeochemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and his colleagues created a computer model of a green wall with generic vegetation in a Western European city. Then they recorded chemical reactions based on a variety of factors, such as wind speed and building placement.

The simulation revealed a clear pattern: A green wall in a street canyon trapped or absorbed large amounts of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter—both pollutants harmful to people, said Pugh. Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.

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propaedeuticist: levitating bridges - Olivier Grossetete

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:50:19 -0400

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levitating bridges - Olivier Grossetete

evocativesynthesis: Krynica Zdroj — before the Second World War...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:48:30 -0400

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Krynica Zdroj — before the Second World War | Patrycja Makowska

cosascool: Greenbox by Act Romegialli

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:47:54 -0400

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Greenbox by Act Romegialli

evocativesynthesis: The window frames of Myshkin

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:47:30 -0400

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The window frames of Myshkin

ishowerinmypants: The Round Room, Wells Cathedral, Wells,...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:46:08 -0400

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The Round Room, Wells Cathedral, Wells, England on Flickr.

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Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:44:28 -0400

modernizing: House in Rio Bonito by Carla Juaçaba Four steel...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:43:53 -0400

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House in Rio Bonito by Carla Juaçaba

Four steel beams puncture walls so as to allow a sliver of glazing to wash the interior of the stone walls with diffused light. The visual weight of the rustic stone counters the lightness of the horizontal planes, creating an effect that mirrors the nearby river where diaphanous space confronts stalwart earth.

ryanpanos: Plywood Dome v.2 via Kristoffer Tejlgaard A geodesic...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:41:58 -0400

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Plywood Dome v.2 via Kristoffer Tejlgaard

A geodesic dome, like the one put up by Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen at the Danish music festival, Roskilde Festival in 2012, is a construction that optimises the use of resources to a high degree, by imitating natures own methods.

The molecular structure found in one given family of carbon molecules, is copied when constructing geodesic domes. This structure allows for great strength and stability, construction of large-sized spaces using a minimum of building materials as well as reduced energy consumption used for heating because of the minimal surface and aerodynamic form of the dome.