Unlocking Happiness with Nature and Building Science
It has a name: Biophilia. It means “love of life or living things,” and it was coined by social psychologist Erich Fromm in 1964. But designers and architects have intuitively known that connecting our loving spaces to other living spaces is a recipe for happy humans. Writer Katie Scott recently penned a nice overview of […]
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To the moon!
In 2018, NELMA’s popular Sustainable Versatility Design Awards announced a new challenge for architect and design students: Design a sustainable domicile on the moon made primarily of wood. Well, it’s happening. Soft of. In a recent article titled, “NASA and Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite” the Times of India website described a collaboration […]
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Four wooden stilted structures host zero-emission resort’s suites amongst centuries-old trees
From our friends at DesignBoom: Terme Preistoriche Resort & Spa in Montegrotto Terme (PD) in Italy introduces the Preistoriche Green Lodge designed by Studio Apostoli, showcasing an eco-friendly approach to hospitality. Seven suites are integrated into four wooden stilted structures, interconnected through a raised system of ramps, walkways, and accessible terraces. The project preserves the roots of age-old trees using 160 […]
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Of Wood and Glass
Picture this: You’re sitting in your newly remodeled lakeside cabin. Your architect talked a lot about being inspired by the surrounding nature and wanted to pay tribute to the land by showcasing wood inside as a central design element. But you can’t see out of the cabin because the architect didn’t also bring the outside […]
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Builder Summit Experiments with Construction Techniques to Revive an Abandoned Quarry in Hungary
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Hello Wood, a creative architecture firm focused on showcasing wood and other sustainable materials. They recently re-birthed their Build Summit where students, architects, and young professionals from all across the world to join the 10-day builder camp to test their wooden construction abilities, learn to collaborate, […]
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