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Commissioned to create a new aluminum museum in Thailand, local architecture firm HAS design and research could have just gone with a flat metal exterior, but instead the firm hit upon the idea to produce an eye-catching facade that’s made up of tens o… Continue reading Museum of Modern Aluminum dazzles with intricate metallic facade
Heating and cooling buildings is a major consumer of energy, especially older ones that weren’t built with modern energy efficiencies in mind. Now, engineers at Fraunhofer Institute have developed a modular facade powered by solar panels that can heat … Continue reading Modular building facade heats and cools rooms with solar power
Along with benefits such as air purification and noise reduction, “living walls” are also claimed to help regulate the temperature within new buildings which they’re built into. A recent study now indicates that they have the same effect when added to … Continue reading Living walls found to drastically reduce heat loss in older buildings