Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Neptune Balls

While sitting on the beach, trying to light a campfire covered with fibrous droplets, and not having any luck, Richard Meier, an American architect, wondered why the fire would not light? Upon further investigation, he realized it was extremely difficult to put fire to these strange fibrous globs that were lying around all over the beach, and this gave him the idea that would become NeptuTherm.



Instead of using materials like aluminium and polyester as roofs and walls insulator, NeptuTherm has developed a way of using a by-product of the sea, also known as Neptune balls, for insulation. Although written in Dutch, the photographs on this webpage clearly demonstrates how to lay this amazing material between the roof panels for insulation.


Further reading:

Thursday, October 11, 2012

ex-AA walls

We have seen many walls made out bottles. Some of them reached a cleaner design than others. Some people even went nuts and just decided to turn his own house into a spiky shaped shelter. We could even use the bottles to start a green wall.

And here we have a video showing how we can build our own green wall: