Bioclimatic design
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about bioclimatic design
News • News • 8 Apr 2024
Mario Cucinella Architects completes sustainable Smart Factory in Brazil with distinctive roof and impressive funnel
Italian architecture and design practice Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) has completed a forward-looking and sustainable Smart Factory and Brazilian HQ for Nice, an Italian multinational working in the home automation, home security, and smart home sector. Located in the city of Limeira in Brazil, the 20,000-square-meter (215,278-square-feet) building replaces the idea of a conventional, closed manufacturing space with one that prioritizes openness and creates a connection with the local community and surrounding environment.
Duccio Malagamba
The new building benefits from its proximity to a natural water source and forest, something that inspired Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) to “explore a bioclimatic design model in te... More
News • News • 27 Sep 2023
CoBe designs a mixed-use development as part of an urban renewal program
Multidisciplinary architecture and design firm CoBe has completed the design and construction of the Laherrère center, a mixed-use development in Pau (a commune overlooking the Pyrenees in southern France). In the heart of Pau’s Saragosse district, an area undergoing major urban redevelopment, CoBe, in collaboration with partner architect WEEK, built two buildings that comprise housing for students and young workers, office and training spaces, craft premises, shops, and services.
Luc Boegly
Luc Boegly
Built in the 1950s and 1960s, the Saragosse neighborhood is a large social housing district with around 14,000 inhabitants. An urban renewal project identified the area as having great social fragility: low-ren... More
News • News • 21 Sep 2023
Coldefy designs a house-like, bioclimatic leather goods factory for Hermès
Coldefy has designed a leather goods factory in the Ardennes for French design house and heritage brand Hermès. The “Maroquinerie de la Sormonne” is the second such factory in the region for Hermès, its considered design one that revisits the archetypal leather atelier. Coldefy conceived a building whose design would promote the well-being of the artisan, fit sensitively within the surrounding natural landscape, and create a high environmental performance.
Gautier Deblonde
Gautier Deblonde
The factory as a house
In revisiting the archetypal production workshop, Coldefy’s challenge lay in addressing the conventions imposed by process and production logistics. To create both a welcom... More
News • News • 24 Aug 2023
Lina Ghotmeh completes an energy-positive leather goods atelier for Hermès
A new leather goods workshop for French design house and heritage brand Hermès was completed by Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture. An atelier for leatherworkers and saddlers, the “Maroquinerie de Louviers” forms a part of Hermès’ Normandy workshop hub.
Iwan Baan
Iwan Baan
Archeology of the future
French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh considers her practice to be an “archeology of the future”, a way of working that evokes her past life in Beirut. Every project evolves from meticulous research and new designs draw on traces and memories of a location’s history. “This project emerges as a reflection on the history and values of Hermès with c... More
News • News • 21 Apr 2022
El fil verd estudi d’arquitectura complete a bioclimatic and passive restoration of a house in Barcelona
Rehabilitating a single-family house constructed between party walls in Barcelona in 1942, this bioclimatic and passive restoration preserves the surrounding typology of the two-storey family home with roof terrace and single-storey pavilion at garden level.
Milena Villalba
The architects, El fil verd estudi d’arquitectura, sought to improve distribution, thermal-acoustic comfort and energy efficiency while maintaining high standards of quality that include the use of natural materials wherever possible.
Milena Villalba
In terms of distribution, the main house rooms are oriented towards the southern façade to maintain a visual connection with the garden and watercourse. The pavilion is a library an... More
Product • By Cospico • CospiBio Bioclimatic pergola
CospiBio Bioclimatic pergola
Do you have an ucovered patio that gets too much rain or snow to be functional? The CospiBio louvered pergola has you covered! Unlike a retractable awning or wooden structure with fixed slats that give partial shade, but no rain and snow protection, this aluminum bioclimatic pergola system can offer full sun, partial to full shade or shelter thanks to its ingeniously designed adjustable louvered roof system.
Manufactured enterily in Greece with quality elements, prececion engineering and aesthetic options to fulfill your dreams of the ultimate outdoor space.
Louvers can be positioned anywhere between 0-120 degree range of motion for the exact amount of shad, protection or ventilation desired.
CospiBio pergola is durable and meets all win... More
Project • By gabriel verd arquitectos • Apartments
Habitat Bulevar
Team: Gabriel Verd + Buró4
This project commenced just as the economy was beginning to recover from the recession. The aim was to come up with a residential development that was the different from the one widely used in the area and base on an obsolete partial development plan.
The old plan proposed blocks with a wide width and interior courtyards for ventilation, but where the orientation of the homes and the organisation of the free areas were not a priority. To amend the plan, a detailed study had to be drafted, setting out a different type of block, one that was ccompatible with the general plan in force and wich would help to create a new city model. To achieve this, a more efficient and sustainable volumen than the traditiona... More
Project • By idesignproject • Primary Schools
1st Primary School "Ag. Pavlos" with closed gym at Municipality Neapolis-Sikes
The present study participated in an architectural contest for the design of the 1st primary school "Ag. Pavlos" with closed gym at Neapolis-Sikes, Thessaloniki. Emphasis was given on designing a friendly and accessible establishment which would assist the children to adjust more easily to the scholar environmental and schedule.
The school building is harmonically adjusted to the natural entourage, as it follows the terrain and takes full advantage of the slopes to create different levels and ensure the best view to the city. The handball court is partially put under the surface to avoid the deterioration of school aesthetic. Special attention was paid to the orientation of the classrooms and the basics principles of bioclimatic design.
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