City Centre Campus at University of Wales in Newport, United Kingdom

BDP has create a new visual identity for Newport region through Glazed volume for University of Wales’s City Centre Campus that located in Newport, United Kingdom. Read more details below: The University of Wales, Newport commissioned a masterplan to create a new campus for the schools of Art, Media, Design, Business and Technology on the waterfront in the heart of Newport. The University’s... 

Tags: Architecture, carbon technologies, Energy conservation, Environmental design, Low-energy building, Sustainability, sustainable building, University of Wales

Expansion and Reform of the Nautical Sport Services Building in Portonovo, Spain

Designed by Diaz y Diaz Arquitectos, Expansion and Reform of the Nautical Sport Services Building is located in Portonovo, Spain. The project builds on an existing building, with the need to extend the useful space and improve access from the promenade and the platform that surrounds it. Another premise of this project is to design a building that will become a landmark of the promenade of Portonovo,... 

Tags: Building insulation, Diaz, Energy conservation, Insulators, Nautical Sport Services Building, Portonovo, Sanxenxo, Spain, sustainable building

Amagansett a New Family House in New York, United States

The Amagansett House designed by Francois de Menil Architect PC is located in New York, United States.  With its roots in Eastern Long Island’s modernist design explorations during the 1950s and 1960s, the Amagansett House exemplifies functional simplicity and energy conservation in its resolution of client program and site conditions. The poetry of the house is in its restrained, simple form and... 

Tags: acre site, Amagansett, Atlantic ocean, Building insulation, East Hampton (town) New York, Energy conservation, energy efficient goals, Engineering, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Francois de Menil, Geography of New York, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Long Island Rail Road stations, Louver, Mechanical engineering, New York City, The Whaleboat House, United States, Ventilation

Wood Farm Residential Annexe in Ipswich, United Kingdom

The Wood Farm Residential Annexe designed by rodney black design studios is located in Ipswich, United Kingdom.  The specific building type is the green oak barn, examples of which are still standing and sound after 800 years. This design evolves the type by tectonic treatment of the interconnecting spaces, the use of purlin arch brace arcades to give the roof structure a fugal rhythm and by the outshot... 

Tags: Barn, Building insulation, Emissivity, Energy conservation, Engineering, Heat transfer, Insulated glazing, Insulators, Ipswich, Mechanical engineering, natural clay products, Thermal protection, United Kingdom, Windows, Wood

Bagley Classroom Building in Duluth, United States

Located in Duluth, United States, Bagley Classroom Building was designed by Salmela Architect. The nature reserve where this building is located is a contiguous natural area, 55 acres in size, deeded to the University which charged the architect with designing a facility to serve eight different departments for the nature portions of their teaching. The University desired that this building have minimum... 

Tags: Architect, Bagley Classroom Building, Classroom Building, Climate house, energy, Energy conservation, energy consumption, energy need, Environment, Environmental design, Grid parity, Low-energy building, Northern Minnesota, overall energy producer, Photovoltaic module, Photovoltaics, positive energy producer, Sustainability, United States, zero-energy, Zero-energy building