Rammed Earth Reference… in Ecuador

September 11, 2009 in Architecture, Sustainability, Waste Materials. Leave a Comment

http://www.archdaily.com/34375/entre-muros-house-al-borde/

check it out!!!

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June 29, 2009 in Architecture, Interesting for Group, Metamorphosis, Perception, The Sublime. Leave a Comment

Yes GRADUATION!!!

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Getting it every two or three days in my junkmail folder…. anyone interested?

Urban agriculture

June 19, 2009 in Energy, Sustainability, Waste Materials. Leave a Comment

A somewhat large scale approach to urban agriculture:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/london-yields-urban-agriculture.html

Also an interresting blog for rotterdam:

http://stadslandbouw.blogspot.com/

‘You Are So Sustainable’

April 11, 2009 in Energy, Interesting for Group, Metamorphosis, Sustainability. Leave a Comment

A long awaited song, now made available for the public of Explore Lab:

You Are So Sustainable
a new text to the melody from the original song ‘You Are So Beautiful’ by Joe Cocker

 

You are so sustainable
to me
You are so sustainable
to me
You can’t deplete

You’re everything i hoped for
Everything i ever need
You are so sustainable to me
You are so sustainable to me

You are so sustainable
to me
You can’t deplete
You’re everyting i ever wished for
a neverending energy

wind, sun, geothermic and bioenergy
You are so sustainable to me

 

2009 © Robert Wierenga

Mr Artist

March 30, 2009 in Interesting for Group, Perception. Leave a Comment

http://www.helmutsmits.nl/ check this out…

not for Lotte or other greatly distracted people…

Translation list of building terms

March 26, 2009 in Uncategorized. Leave a Comment
Tags: translation, useful

Sybren from the other lab found this nice link:

http://www.bbri.be/antenne_norm/eurocodes/pdf/Vertaallijst.pdf

it is a pdf of 28 pages with building terms translated in Dutch, French and german.

can come in handy

improving the usage of this blog

March 26, 2009 in Uncategorized. Leave a Comment

The first explorerr who send’s me an e-mail with the text “free cake”  will receive a nice cake to share between your explore buddies.

perosn’s exlcuded from this deal are: Robert and Lotte

rapid deployment / refugee camps

March 25, 2009 in Uncategorized. Leave a Comment

 www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=1547

A document on the humid tropics

March 25, 2009 in Uncategorized. Leave a Comment
Tags: design, housing, humid, Sustainability, tropic

Not very shokcingly new things for the sustainable guru’s but nice to have a look on.

A pdf on designing in the humid tropics

What the F*CK?

February 23, 2009 in Architecture, Metamorphosis, Perception. Leave a Comment

Today i was in a reactionairy mood, and in the afternoon I read this article: http://www.bright.nl/symbolische-gevel-bepaalt-functie (dutch). Looked at this and got scared, then saw this and thought OMG. An the worst they ONLY make this kind of non-architecture!!!

What do you think, is this architecture or does it count as ‘verrommeling’?