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The Well Building Standard: Marrying Science & Technology to Architecture (via Clinton Global Initiative)

Re-Visioning Community: the Bancroft School Revitalization (VIDEO)

Amazing transformation of a 100-year-old public school in Kansas City's historic Manheim Park Neighborhood into a new deep green development for affordable housing. Led by BNIM Architects, this ambitious project includes support from a progressive group of stakeholders, including the Make It Right Foundation.

Arup: Micro-algae prove ideal for green façades

A zero-energy house under construction in Germany is set to provide the first real-life test for a new façade system that uses live microalgae to provide shade and generate renewable energy at the same time.

The world’s first ‘bio-adaptive façade’ will be installed in the ‘BIQ’ house for the International Building Exhibition (IBA) in Hamburg, which runs through 2013.

The façade concept is designed so that algae in the bio-reactor façades grow faster in bright sunlight to provide more internal shading. The ‘bio-reactors’ not only produce biomass that can subsequently be harvested, but they also capture solar thermal heat – both energy sources can be used to power the building.

In practice, this means that photosynthesis is driving a dynamic response to the amount of solar shading required, while the micro-algae growing in the glass louvres provide a clean source of renewable energy. READ MORE >>

via arup.com

Biomimicry for the Built Environment: Energy Retrofits Using Biomimicry?

Interesting thread right now on the LinkedIn group, "Biomimicry for Built Environments":

What are some examples of buildings that have been energy-retrofitted using biomimicry principles/strategies/products?