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PREMIO EUROPEO DE DISEÑO Y MEDIO AMBIENTE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD

PREMIO EUROPEO DE DISEÑO Y MEDIO AMBIENTE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD

DIMAD - CENTRAL DE DISEÑO organisation team:

Manager:Concha Moreno

Coordination:Giorgia Sorarù

Communication:Paloma Castro

Press:Valentina Volpato

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD BEST_ED_1 (1st Edition)

Jury and Experts’ Committee:

Chairpersons: Rosa Arce, Scientific Director and Manuel Estrada, DIMAD’s Chairman

Enrique Jiménez Larrea, IDAEAlberto Corsín, EOIPedro FeduchiSantiago Miranda Carlos San José Antonio SerranoElisa Sáinz, ddiCésar Ruiz-Larrea, ASAFelisa Arribas, EOIJan Carel Diehl (The Netherlands)Henrique Cayatte (Portugal)Alberto CorazónCarmelo Di Bartolo (Italy)Javier DíezJavier FernándezManuel LecuonaSantiago MirandaSophie Thomas (United Kingdom)Ignacio ValeroSergio Volturo

BEST_ED_1 team:

Technical Coordination:Kateleine van der MaasTeresa Fernández

Exhibition design:Ignacio ValeroJosé Miguel Celestino

Graphic Design:David Pérez Medina

Typesetting:Margarita Hernández OmarAndrés José Gómez

Page setting:Pablo Díaz

Translated by:Paloma González

Text Editors:Gloria EscribanoJavier Fernández

Printing:Gráficas Muriel

Paper:Cyclus Print,100% post-use recycled paper, under RAL UZ-14 Blue Angel standards, distributed by Antalis, and Escudo Grey recycled cardboard, distributed by Torraspapel.

Acknowledgements: To the students at Escuela de Arte 4 in Madrid: Stephany Bermúdez, Laura Fominaya, Patricia Garrido Tapia, Carlos Guisasola Suárez, Andrea Places Suárez and Adrián Prieto, for their cooperation with their proposals on the exhibition assembly.

The European Social Fund, with its aim of contributing towards sustainable devel-opment, takes into account in a cross-disciplinary way the support given to actions such as this, which foster respect for environmental care. This particular action falls within the scope of the Adapt-ability and Employment Multi-regional Op-erational Programme, giving momentum to the culture of sustainability in business and the use of the environment’s potential as a source of creating employment.

Organisers:

Sponsors:

With cooperation from:

With the support of:

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Throughout the centuries human beings have greatly developed their capacity to use Nature for their own benefit in order to achieve a more comfortable, pleasant life. But at the same time their activity is becoming more and more of a risk for nature, which so generously guarantees their survival. It is no longer questionable that climatic change is clear proof that this risk is near.

Design is one of the exponents of humans’ transforming and creative capacities, and it also represents a first class cultural and economic value. Creative factors contribute to boost economic life and may play an essential role in the improve-ment and protection of the environment.

But design and creative capacity may become a horse running on behalf of ir-responsible consumption and industries or, on the contrary, may be of invaluable help to contribute towards human activities more in line with preserving life on Earth as we have known it up to now.

From the beginnings of design as a project discipline, the concern for the effects of industrial activities on our environment has been constant among many designers. From Breuer’s writings in the Bauhaus in 1927 on a rational use of green materi-als, or Buckminster’s Dymaxion as a paradigm for sustainable materials. To the increasingly common concern of young architects and designers in search of new more sustainable materials to reduce the environmental impact of their designs.

The time has come to move from good ideas to good deeds. Looking for the best examples and practices to spread them among society, companies, universities, institutions and the professional designers themselves. In order to turn what to-day is an exceptional practice into an essential requirement to promote, request or carry out design.

To put design at the service of people and at the service of society is one of Di-mad’s power ideas since its origins and it has also been one of the reasons for the establishment of this European Environmental Design Award, promoted by out-standing public figures and institutions in the fields of architecture, design, train-ing and the environment. An award that has been born with four basic goals:

I. To value and foster actions carried out in Europe by companies, institutions or designers which are particularly outstanding examples of good design from an environmental viewpoint.

II. To raise awareness among companies, public institutions, designers and soci-ety of the importance of allocating sustainability values to their designs and products.

III. To make society at large and productive sectors in particular aware of the im-portance of conceiving design as a welfare and wealth trigger and as carrier of cultural values and a utility.

IV. To turn Madrid into a benchmark for sustainable design. To place the Central de Diseño and Matadero Madrid at the centre of the design values included in the three previous goals.

These objectives have managed to bring together such different entities as the Madrid Designers’ Association (DIMAD), the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE) of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, the Association Sustainabil-ity and Architecture (ASA), the Foundation Arte y Derecho (Art and Law) and the European Social Fund through the Business School EOI, Escuela de Negocios. All the above institutions contribute with their means, ideas and human resources to select and acknowledge every year the best projects that:

• Promote improvements in the field of architectural design and sustainable building.

• Introduce new products or changes in existing products, to improve our daily life.

• Foster the publishing of books and publications with innovations in their elabora-tion and with environmentally-related contents.

• Develop graphic design campaigns or actions promoting environmental values.

• Lead business, institutional or private initiatives than include design and the envi-ronment among their main elements.

All the actions are precisely covered within the five categories of this Award: Build-ing, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Communication Campaigns and Initiatives.

In this first edition, 146 projects from all over Europe have taken part in the above categories. This can be considered a reasonable success, taking into account the number and quality of the projects registered.

This first edition, covered and organised from DIMAD by an enthusiastic group of design practitioners who have made the Scientific Committee’s work possible, and the Jury who have selected 4 projects as absolute First Prizes and have awarded Spe-cial Mentions to other 7 projects.

Combining aesthetic values, innovation, usefulness and viability, environmental pro-tection and social values. We are convinced that the projects registered and the final selection of winners are in themselves good exponents of the significance our society already places on environmental concerns. The quality of the work speaks of how Design can transmit this concern to industries, improving aspects of our everyday life that may contribute towards a better future.

Rosa ArceScientific Director

Manuel EstradaDIMAD’s Chairman

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Category: Sustainable Building

First Prize“WWF Netherlands Head Office” carried out by RAU (The Netherlands)

Special Mention“Wikado” carried out by 2012Architekten (The Netherlands)

Special Mention“Spanish Pavilion for the Expo Zaragoza 2008” carried out by Mangado y Asociados S.L. (Spain)

Category: Industrial Design

Special Mention“W+W (Washbasin+Watercloset)” carried out by Gabriele and Oscar Buratti for Innovation Lab Roca, Roca Sanitarios S.A. (Spain)

Category: Publishing

First Prize“The eco design handbook” carried out by Alastair Fuad-Luke (United Kingdom)

Special Mention“Écodesign, chemins vertueux” carried out by P’Reference (Francia)

Category: Graphic Design Campaigns or Actions

First Prize“Ecofont” carried out by SPRANQ (The Netherlands)

Special Mention“Reinicia” (logo and applications) carried out by Eduardo de Fraile (Spain)

Special Mention“WWF paper dispenser” carried out by Saatchi&Saatchi CPH (Denmark)

Category: Business, Individual or Institutional Initiatives

First Prize“Eco by Cosentino”carried out by Cosentinogroup (Spain)

Special Mention“Trashdesign”carried out by Trashdesignmanufactory (Austria)

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For the last few years IDAE has upheld the strategy of managing to have energy efficiency unavoidably integrated with design as a further attribute, added to the defining ones relating to aesthetics, functionality or the senses.Behind every design product there lies a reflection and a need to meet. Exactly the same lies behind efficiency, and probably the same renewed way of looking at the world, i.e., life.

Energy is a scarce, precious resource, and wasting it goes against common sense, intelligence, aesthetics and, I would even say, ethics. We must turn the energy efficiency motto –i.e., get more with less- into a paradigm of our way of life, and a question, as I said before, of common sense, intelligence and opportunity to carry on progressing, achieve a better quality of life and build up a common future for everybody.

Thus, the concept of ECODESIGN comes in, in all its power; i.e., the optimisa-tion and design of products, both regarding efficiency in energy consumption when it refers to products requiring power to work, and life cycle.

If the concept of design is new, so is that of energy efficiency. Energy efficiency policies and the promotion of renewable sources of energy enjoy today –both internationally and certainly in Spain- a strategic value which was unthinkable only three decades ago; environmental concern seemed then to affect only those considered naïve who had started to theorise on the need to strike a balance between economic growth, energy consumption and respect for Nature.

I would like to point out here that, in any case, it is no longer a question of willingness or awareness. Everything related to ecological design requirements applicable to products that use power has been laid down in Royal Decree 1369/2007, transposing in Spain the European Directive on Ecodesign (Direc-tive 2005/32/EC), later amended by Directive 2008/28/EC.

These two directives have recently been recast into Directive 2009/125/EC [1], establishing ecodesign requirements for energy-related products; not just those for consumption as it was up to now. Later on, Regulation (EC) 66/2010 [2] ensures coordination between the design of these products and their ecological label of the European Union.

The aim is to create a single framework for the ecological design of products re-lated to energy that ensures efficiency and coherence, with a common approach for the whole EU. Besides laying down the minimum requirements to market the products, their environmental benchmarks are established regarding the most ecological products on the market.

Under the existing Directive on ecological design, this is already feasible for products relating to energy, which may enjoy public employment and/or tender and tax benefits.

The current publication presents the European Environmental Design Awards, envisaging them as a cultural value affecting the economy. In times of crisis we

[1] DIRECTIVE 2009/125/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL, of 21 October 2009, establishing a framework for the setting of ecode-sign requirements for energy-related products. Recast of Directive 2005/32/EC and Directive 2008/28/EC, which amended and expanded its scope to allow the Community ecodesign requirements to include energy-related products, not just those using energy.[2] Regulation (EC) 66/2010, of 25 November 2009, on the EU ecolabel, which ensures coordination between the EU ecolabel system and the estab-lishment of requirements within the scope of Directive 2009/125/EC.

need to build creative factors into production in order to increase productivity. All this, directly addressing the severe environmental challenges while at the same time maintaining our welfare standards.

The search for practical solutions that turn our life habits and our productive ways into more efficient, environmentally-friendly patterns is a social and economic need.And if we do find them, we must disseminate them as much as possible to serve as models; this is the main aim of the awards.

One of the essential goals of IDEA is to carry out awareness-raising actions targeting all sectors, thus contributing to building up a new energy culture based on sustainability.

We want to shake both the consumers’ and the manufacturers’ consciences, move them so that energy is appropriately dealt with, giving it priority in those aspects in which it is present in our lives, which are almost all of them. For this reason, and because design, creativity and art are means, like no other, to shake consciences through reflection and emotion, we are proud to take part in this initiative which rewards ECODESIGN.

Finally, I would particularly like to stress the need to incorporate design into so-called sustainable building. That is, the significant role architectural and space design may play in this process of the search for new solutions to achieve sustainable, bioclimatic buildings.

At IDAE, we think it is essential to foster measures that act on energy consumption in buildings, that help to achieve energy sustainability.

Buildings are constant energy consumers, right from the moment they are built, dur-ing their life cycle until they are demolished, in very significant amounts, while pro-ducing at the same time polluting emissions.

Just as a point of information, the building sector in Spain –per use and exploitation- represents around 20% of end-user energy consumption.

This energy consumption and the environmental impact related to it can and must be dramatically reduced, through a series of measures connected on the one hand with urban town planning and on the other, through the articulation of a series of strategies that contribute to considering energy as a starting point criterion when designing projects.

If everything in project is still made following conventional views, the city of tomor-row will still have to face the challenge of preserving quality of life and being commit-ted to our future. However, it is possible nowadays to plan and design introducing in the processes and projects, concepts and criteria that allow for a more rational use of energy and for urban environments more in line with sustainable development.

It is also possible, and I would say essential nowadays, to think that energy may become an essential part of project design criteria and of their conditioning consid-erations, gearing the dynamics of land use towards sustainability and a better use of resources.

Enrique Jiménez LarreaChairman of IDAE February 2009

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CATEGORY

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING INDUSTRIAL DESIGNPUBLISHING GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNSBUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUCIONAL INITIATIVE

CATEGORY AND AWARD / PROJECT > PAGE

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING OUTSTANDING WWF HEAD OFFICE NETHERLANDS> 12

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING MERIT WIKADO> 14

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING MERIT SPANISH PAVILION FOR EXPO ZARAGOZA 2008> 16

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MERIT W+W (WASHBASIN + WATER CLOSET)> 18

PUBLISHING OUTSTANDING THE ECO DESIGN HANDBOOK> 20

PUBLISHING MERIT ÉCODESIGN, CHEMINS VERTUEUX (ECODESIGN, VIRTUOUS ROADS)> 22

GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNS OUTSTANDING ECOFONT PROFESSIONAL> 00

GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNS MERIT RESTART (REINICIA)> 24

GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNS MERIT WWF PAPER DISPENSER> 26 BUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE OUTSTANDING ECO BY COSENTINO®

> 28

BUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE MERIT TRASHDESIGN> 30

PROJECT > PAGE

CENTRE FOR ENVIROMENTAL EDUCATION, ARCHAEOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN ZUTPHEN, THE NETHERLANDS> 40

CINEMA BOOK> 40

CITY GARDEN MODEL> 40

COMBOX, THE NEW GENERATION OF COMPOSTERS > 41

CROSSWAY> 41

DESIGN ACTIVISM: BEAUTIFUL STRANGENESS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD> 41

DESIGNERS, VISIONARIES AND OTHER STORIES: A COLLECTION OF SUSTAIN-ABLE DESIGN ESSAYS> 42

DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST. A PROJECT BY ROTOR> 42

DOG POO BAGS> 42

DONATE YOUR MOBILE> 43

DUCHI> 43

DVELAS> 43

ECOALF, FABRICS FOR A NEW GENERATION> 44

ECO-BULEVAR DE VALLECAS. MADRID> 44

ECOHOSTEL> 44

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN: TOWARDS DESIGN AND PRODUCTION IN HARMONY WITH NATURE> 45

ECONO> 45

PROJECT > PAGE

ECOPACK’S ATTITUDE AT THE DESIGN-PACK GALLERY> 45

ECOPÉRGOLA MODEL TAO> 46

ECOPROYECTA> 46

EL-RECETARIO.NET. CONSTRUCTIVE SOLUTIONS FROM WASTE> 46

EMBELL SYSTEM, FIRST MOPPING KIT USING CLEAN WATER> 47

EMOTIONALLY DURABLE DESIGN: OB-JECTS, EXPERIENCES AND EMPATHY> 47

EPHEMERAL RESTAURANT CASSIA> 47

ERGONOMIC BONA MINI EDGER> 48

EXPOSITION XPOELDER: CLIMATE CHANGE> 48

F. H. I. F. F. > 48

FAT BOB ROCKER> 49

FUJY SOSTENIBLE HOUSE> 49

GARDENY> 49

GOOD FOR ENVIRONMENT! (G4E!)> 50

GREEN BOX> 50

GREEN SPOT “CEMEX LIMPIO”> 50

HEADBOARD PALLET> 51

HOM, AUTONOMOUS SOLAR STREET LIGHT> 51

PROJECT > PAGE

HOUSE AND SUSTAINABILITY IN SPAIN> 51

I’M NOT JUST A BOX> 52

IMPULSE COLLECTION> 52

INTERNATIONAL GREEN ROOF CON-GRESS> 52

ARTEMATICA VITRUM BASE> 53

ISER> 53

KYOTO HOUSE> 53

LAUREANA HOUSE> 54

LUCE LAMP> 54

MADE IN GREEN LABEL> 54

NEOROMÁNTICO SUSTAINABLE BENCH> 55

NEW BRIDGE OVER THE HENARES RIVER NEXT TO THE ARABIC BRIDGE IN GUAD-ALAJARA, SPAIN> 55

NEW PACKAGING> 55

OKO BUILDING> 56

PARC DEL PINAR DE PERRUQUET> 56

PENMAN> 56

PNEU_FABRIC COVER TO MAKE A SEAT OUT OF TWO OLD TIRES> 57

POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT: FROM VICIOUS CIRCLES TO VIRTUOUS CYCLES THROUGH BUILT ENVIRONMENT DESIGN> 57

PROJECT > PAGE

POSTERS> 57

PRET A PORTER> 58

R4 HOUSE> 58

RECYCLOOP> 58

REFUNC> 59

RELAJA (SUSTAINABLE URBAN FURNI-TURE)> 59

RESSENY> 59

RICICLANTICA> 60

SEAM CHAIR> 60

SHELL SCENARIOS POSTERS> 60

SOLAR COOKER> 61

SOLIDARY ROUTE TO MAURITANIA> 61

SOLTAG, ENERGY HOUSING> 61

SPUD RAINCOAT> 62

STARS> 62

SUPERUSE THE BOOK> 62

SUPERUSE.ORG> 63

SUSTAINABLE BY DESIGN: EXPLORA-TIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE > 63

SUSTAINABLE FASHION AND TEXTILES: DESIGN JOURNEYS> 63

PROJECT > PAGE

TABLE BOARD> 64

TABLE TELEPHONE BOOTH> 64

TAMAGO> 64

NEWLY DESIGNED WOOD FLOORING> 65

THE B&W HOUSE (THE BLACK & WHITE HOUSE)> 65

TOT HOUSE> 65

TRÄD> 66

TRASH?> 66

TUEJAR ARMCHAIR> 66

TYPO CHAIR> 67

VILLA UH1> 67

VITRO HOUSE> 67

WHOLE SYSTEM DESIGN. AN INTE-GRATED APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING> 68

X DAYS PROJECT> 68

ZECOCHAIR> 68

ZEYRON TECHNOLOGIES, PIONEERS IN DOMOTICS OF WATER> 69

ZEYRON THERMO> 69

ZICLA. INNOVATION IN RECYCLING WASTE: NEW MATERIALS-NEW PROD-UCTS FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDING> 69

PROJECT > PAGE

6 SOCIAL-RENT-HOUSES IN ZELHEM THE NETHERLANDS> 34

60BAG.COM> 34

ARKA ECOPOD> 34

ARTICULADO BOOK. OPINIONS AND REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE DESIGN> 35

BAKUS> 35

BELLOCH CHAIR - 100% RECYCLED AND RECYCLABLE > 35

BILLBIRDHOUSE> 36

BILLDOGHOUSE> 36

BIOCLIMATIC COMMUNITY> 36

BIONICTILE: DESIGN OF GLAZED CERAMIC PRODUCTS FOR THE SELECTIVE REDUCTION OF ENVIROMENTAL NOX

> 37

BOBHANGER (THE ECOLOGICAL HANGER)> 37

BOLD CHAIR – BENCH> 37

BONA DUST CARE SYSTEM> 38

BONA THINK DO GREEN> 38

BOOK LAMP> 38

CAVALLUM> 39

CC8. CLIMATE CONFERENCE. CLIMATE CONCERT> 39

CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES “SLUNÁKOV” > 39

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TITLE / YEAR

WWF NETHERLANDS HEAD OFFICE / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

RAU

CLIENT

WWF, THE NETHERLANDS COLLABORATORS

BBN, RAU (BUILDING MANAGEMENT) / ARUP, ÁMSTERDAM (INSTALLATION CONSULTANT) / ABT, ARNHEM (STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT) / DGMR, DRACHTEN (ACOUSTICS-BUILDING PHYSICS) / VAN ZOELEN, UTRECHT (BUILDING CONTRACTOR) / ULC, UTRECHT (MECHANICAL CONTRACTOR) / VERWEY, UTRECHT (ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR)

Rau transformed a former 1950’s agricultural laboratory into the first CO2 neu-tral and (almost entirely) energy autonomous office in the Netherlands. By break-ing through the rigidity of the existing structure and adding an organic blob at the centre, the rejuvenated building got a friendly appearance that blends in with the surrounding nature reserve.

Rau’s intervention did not only give the building a new face, but fundamentally changed the user experience. Natural ventilation and the use of natural materials offer a balanced and healthy indoor environment.

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD SUSTAINABLE BUILDING OUTSTANDINGIt is not often that so many qualities converge to award a first prize as is the case now: The team of architects and their long commitment to sustainability, the customer and his pioneering effort towards nature preservation, the commission itself and the decision to maintain a previous building that would be recycled into a new one with substantial reforms to achieve a balance with the environ-ment as is achieved here.

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EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD SUSTAINABLE BUILDING MERITHolland is a country in which the design of urban areas for children’s games has a long tradition linked to both social and plastic art experimentation. So the 2012Architecten proposal to use for one of them recycled pieces from wind-power generators comes as no surprise. The outcome is both novel and stimulat-ing. A path that is beginning to be used and that is offered here as an example of great formal and creative value.

TITLE / YEAR

WIKADO / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

CÉSARE PEEREN, JEROEN BERGSMA AND JOS DE KRIEGER / 2012ARCHITECTEN CLIENT

STICHTING KINDERPARADIJS DE MEIDOORNCOLLABORATORS

GEBROEDERS KRAAIJEVELD

Wikado is a design for a playground in Rotterdam made out of windmill pieces. Five (discarded) rotor blades are used to create a maze-like space with a panna –a type of ball game– court in the centre, placed on the existing concrete circle. Four towers are placed around it, each with a distinctive character. Between the towers there hangs a net which works as a climbing structure, but also prevents balls from ending up in the neighbours’ gardens.

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EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD SUSTAINABLE BUILDING MERITSpain’s Pavilion at the Zaragoza World Expo 2008 is one of the buildings that has received most awards in the last few years. Nevertheless, we did not wish to fail to highlight here how its formal values have come to the service of ideas of sustainability and respect for the environment. An example to follow and one that opens up paths to dispel the misconception that plastic art and environmen-tal creativity cannot go hand in hand along the same path.

TITLE / YEAR

SPANISH PAVILION FOR EXPO ZARAGOZA 2008 / 2005-2006 (PROJECT), 2006-2008 (CONSTRUCTION)AUTHOR / COMPANY

FRANCISCO JOSÉ MANGADO / MANGADO Y ASOCIADOS, S.L.COLLABORATORS

JOSÉ Mª GASTALDO, RICHARD KRÁLOVI, CRISTINA CHU, HUGO MÓNICA AND CÉSAR MARTÍN GÓMEZ (ARCHITECTURE) / NB 35, S.L. (STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING) / FUNDACIÓN CENER-CIE-MAT (ENERGY-EFFICIENCY) / ALS LIGHTING, ARQUITECTOS CONSULTORES DE ILUMINACIÓN (LIGHTING) / CARLOS RIVEIRO, ANTONIO IGNACIO FRAMIÑAN AND CARLOS PAZ (SITE MANAG-ERS-CONSTRUCTORA SAN JOSÉ) (CONTRACTOR) / FERNANDO OLIVÁN AND VICENTE DE LUCAS (QUANTITY SURVEYOR)

The desire to reproduce the space of a forest, or of a group of bamboos on a layer of water, has formed the subconscious basis of the project. On the one hand there is the creation of a mechanism able to generate extraordinary pos-sibilities from the point of view of energy logic and environmental awareness, an essential and symbolic aspect for the Spanish Pavilion. On the other hand, one of the most attractive spaces one may encounter is transferred to the field of architecture.

Changing spaces, full of hints and nuances, in which concepts such as vertical-ity and depth play an essential role.

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TITLE / YEAR

W+W (WASHBASIN + WATER CLOSET) / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

ROCA INNOVATION LAB (CONCEPT) AND BURATTI + BATTISTON ARCHITECTS (DESIGN) / ROCA SANITARIO S.A.

W+W combines functionality and water-saving benefits fusing Washbasin and WC.

The project W+W intends to fuse both appliances.Through the new Roca “water-reuse” technology, washbasin waste water fills

the toilet cistern, reducing water usage by up to 25% compared with the stand-ard toilet. An automatic cleaning system avoids bad smells and flushing bacteria into the cistern.

W+W is the choice when sustainability and good design are top priorities.

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MERITAn interesting product joining excellent execution quality and a smart solution to re-use washbasin water in the toilet cistern. Roca has managed to tune in with the increasing environmental awareness of Northern European markets by providing a very interesting solution, which, no doubt, will influence future conceptualisations for this type of product.

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EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD PUBLISHING OUTSTANDINGThe Ecodesign Handbook stands out both for the neat design of its edition and for its content, and is a guide of daily use objects which have been conceived with environmental protection and user friendly criteria. It covers a list of 570 products, 125 selected materials, information on a great number of designers, manufacturers and ecology organisations and 140 references to eco-design strat-egies. Its publication has contributed to the dissemination of ecodesign among designers and consumers and opened the road for other books and other publi-cations, and for the spread of opportunities linked to sustainability challenges.

TITLE / YEAR

THE ECO DESIGN HANDBOOK / FIRST EDITION 2002, SECOND EDITION 2004, THIRD EDITION 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

ALASTAIR FUAD-LUKE / THAMES AND HUDSON, LONDON, UK (PUBLISHERS)CLIENT

THAMES AND HUDSON, LONDON, UK (PUBLISHERS) COLLABORATORS

MULTI-LANGUAGE EDITIONS WITH CO-PUBLISHERS: 2002 - CARTAGO, SPAIN / LOGOS, ITALY / DUMONT, GERMANY / CHRONICLE BOOKS, USA / 2003 - RIKUYOSHA CO, JAPAN / 2004 - CHRONI-CLE BOOKS, USA / 2010 - CHRONICLE BOOKS, USA

Three international multi-language editions of The Eco-Design Handbook (2002, 2004 and 2009) have become a benchmark for celebrating the global state of the art of eco-design.

Each edition has documented the leading designers, designer-makers and man-ufacturers breathing a new eco-consciousness into their products, raising the expectations of consumers for fresh aesthetics, functionality and responsibility.

Clear for all to see are the legion opportunities to design a better, more equable world where society and nature become partners.

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TITLE / YEAR

ÉCODESIGN, CHEMINS VERTUEUX (ECODESIGN, VIRTUOUS ROADS) / 2007 AUTHOR / COMPANY

FABRICE PELTIER AND HENRI SAPORTA / P’REFERENCE- DESIGNPACKGALLERY

The book Écodesign, Chemins Vertueux draws up a panorama of packaging’s ecological footprint. It explores the axes of progress inherent to this issue and offers innovative solutions in packaging ecoconception.

Conceiving packaging that pollutes less all along its life cycle, helps consumers get rid of it in a better way and limits their environmental impact, including dur-ing recycling, this is the new global challenge.

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD PUBLISHING MERITÉcodesign, Chemins Vertueux is a great book, both in design and content. Its design includes many excellent photos, and its content, related to waste and packaging, their history, recycling, ecological impact, resources, energy, air and water, materials, etc. is also an analysis of responsible attitudes to the environ-ment and packaging.

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TITLE / YEAR

ECOFONT / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

GERJON ZOMER, ALEXANDER KRAAIJ AND RICK VAN DEN BOS / SPRANQ CREATIVE COMMUNI-CATIONS / ECOFONT B.V.

How much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After long hours of research and work, the author managed to get a font that uses up to 20% less ink. To do so, extensive tests were carried out, which showed that the best results were achieved using small circles. The type selected had to be based on a widely used type face. Therefore the Vera Sans was chosen –a Verdana look-a-like under GNU license– as the basis of the Ecofont.

A communication website around it was set up which offered the Ecofont “Free to download, free to use”. Within two months after launch, the font was downloaded over 700,000 times!

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNS OUTSTANDINGEcofont is, first of all, a robust graphic proposal. A type face that keeps its care-ful, legible stroke in small bodies and large formats.

With this award to Ecofont, we are rewarding an idea’s efficiency. An idea that shows how some simple actions may translate into significant savings in our daily habits, a more sound use of raw materials and more rational consumption of manufactured products.

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REINICIA (RESTART) / 2008-2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

EDUARDO DEL FRAILE CLIENT

REINICIA

Reinicia is a project of electronic waste management that provides the citizen with a collection system for useless devices. Some of these devices can later be reused in other areas or institutions.

The plug is a symbol that unifies most electronic devices. The name “Reinicia” provides new life to devices that looked like having a single use.

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNS MERITReinicia has a great fundamental quality. It says everything it has to say, nothing else. Neatly and clearly. What comes out of one end of the plug, goes into the other, restarting the process.

Ecology and communication also means avoiding unnecessary noise.

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EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNS MERITThis Paper Dispenser has an innovative design suggesting that saving the planet is directly connected to individual paper savings. By using a standard paper dis-penser with a slight modification, green foil and the silhouette of South America, it manages to challenge people and transmit that the survival of the forests is directly related to what people consume in their daily lives. This product unites creativity and the dissemination of the concept of environmental protection.

TITLE / YEAR

WWF PAPER DISPENSER / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

CLIFF KAGAWA HOLM AND SILAS JANSSON (ART DIRECTORS) / SAATCHI&SAATCHI CPH CLIENT

WWF

To make people realize that saving the planet starts with them saving paper, the authors have used standard public paper dispensers, making a simple modifica-tion with green paper foil and the silhouette of South America.

This has allowed them to prove that the survival of the forest is directly con-nected to what people consume in everyday life.

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BEST_ED_1_EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD_PREMIO EUROPEO DE DISEÑO Y MEDIO AMBIENTE_BUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUCIONAL INITIATIVE

TITLE / YEAR

ECO BY COSENTINO® / 2008-2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

I+D DEPARTMENT AND PRODUCT AND INNOVATION DEPARTMENT / COSENTINOGROUP CLIENT

LOWE´S FROM USA COLLABORATORS

COSENTINO NORTH AMERICA

Eco by Cosentino® is a new revolutionary surfacing product. It is composed of 75% post-industrial and post-consumer recycled raw material, including glass, mirrors, porcelain and stone scrap bound together with an eco-friendly corn-oil based resin.

Eco by Cosentino® offers a hard durable surface that has high stain, scratch and scorch performance. It is non-porous and does not require sealers. Available in ten sophisticated designer colours.

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD BUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE OUTSTANDINGThe philosophy behind pre- and post-production material recycling, the concept and implementation of a type of material non-existent in Nature and as such with innovative, far from false-natural perception aesthetics, turn this product into an excellent example of how compatibility and industrial production should proceed.

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BEST_ED_1_EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD_PREMIO EUROPEO DE DISEÑO Y MEDIO AMBIENTE_BUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUCIONAL INITIATIVE

TITLE / YEAR

TRASHDESIGN / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

MAGDALENA HÖLLER / TRASHDESIGNMANUFACTORY

Trashdesign unites design and social awareness. Long-term unemployed and disabled people craft elegant and high-quality jewellery, furniture, accessories and trophies out of washer drums, PC cases, circuit boards and so on. These leftovers of society are the resources used to produce creative and outstanding objects –each piece is handmade and therefore unique.

Acquiring one of these products means supporting both a social and an envi-ronmental idea.

EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AWARD BUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE MERITTrashdesign brings together design, environment protection and social aware-ness. Long-term unemployed and disabled people craft smart, high-quality jewellery, furniture, accessories and other products with recycled materials. The objects thus made are unique, creative, contribute to the protection of the environment and promote social integration.

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ARTICULADO BOOK. OPINIONS AND REFLECTIONS ABOUT DESIGN / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

ANA YAGO AND JOSÉ ANTONIO JIMÉNEZ / SANSERIF CREATIUS, S.L.CLIENT

ADCV (DESIGNERS’ ASSOCIATION FROM THE VALENCIA A. REGION) COLLABORATORS

IMPIVA (SMALL AND MEDIUM VALENCIAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE)

A not-for-profit publication featuring opinions from leading names in interna-tional design –Ana Yago, Karim Rashid, Milton Glaser...– and other experts –A. Rawsthorn, J. Errea…– on the relationship between design, the environment and the economy.

It has been conceived to transmit values like sustainable growth, recycling, low impact production processes. Printed in one colour on ecological paper, it is a portable book-product Coordinated by José A. Giménez, with the support of ADCV and Impiva.

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BAKUS / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

TATI GUIMARÃES AND NIKOLINE ARNS / CICLUSCLIENT

CICLUS

Bakus is a table mat designed for Ciclus, a sustainable design studio in Barce-lona. The concept was to make an object that had an interaction with the user and pushed him into the idea of reusing his daily garbage, in this case, the wine corks.

The result is a functional, emotive simple, elegant piece with a stainless steel finish, which is a long-lasting material.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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BELLOCH CHAIR - 100% RECYCLED AND RECYCLABLE / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

LAGRANJA / SANTA & COLE

The 100% recycled and recyclable Belloch Chair is Santa & Cole and La-granja’s joint bid to achieve a product committed with the environment. The result is a contemporary and economical chair, suitable either for indoor (with natural beech wood legs) or outdoor (with matt anodized aluminium legs) use, manufactured with an innovative material composed by 60% of recycled polypropylene from post-consumer agricultural plastic waste, and 40% of recy-cled dust from sawmills.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

6 SOCIAL-RENT-HOUSES IN ZELHEM THE NETHERLANDS / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

GROTENBREG ARCHITECTENCLIENT

PRO WONEN CORPORATION FOR SOCIAL HOUSES

This project won the first prize in a national competition of sustainable build-ings.

The houses have the following features: Extreme low-energy-use, photovolta-ic-cells on the south-side of the houses, sun-warmed-water-collectors on the south-side, high-tech-sun-gaz-combi-boiler for room heating and warm-water, warmth-winning out of the ventilation-air, green-house at the south-side of the house, grass-sedum-roof to keep the rainwater, small windows at the north-side of the house, day-light-concept and wood-frame-high-isolation.

SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGBUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE

TITLE / YEAR

60BAG.COM / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

REMIGIUSZ TRUCHANOWICZ AND KATARZYNA OKINCZYC / DEVON VISUAL GROUP REMIGIUSZ TRUCHANOWICZCLIENT

HSBC BANK SWITZERLAND, POLISH INSTITUTE IN SWITZERLAND AND CENTER OF MODERN ART (WARSAW)

60Bags are biodegradable carrier bags that are manufactured using the natural flax based non-woven fabric. The fabric is produced with flax fibre industrial waste so as not to exploit natural resources. Once a bag is discarded it decom-poses naturally within just 60 days. This means 60Bag can be used and stored as long as desired and then thrown away without polluting the environment.

60Bag.com is the natural answer to the environmental needs of today.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE

ARKA ECOPOD AUTHOR / COMPANY

HAZEL SELENA / ARKA ECOPOD LTD.

Inspired by the process of regeneration and new life, the authors wanted to give the Ecopod coffin a unique shape and make it from biodegradable materials. By finishing it in brightly coloured papers, the Ecopod helps to move funerals away from their more sombre tradition, towards a more inspiring celebration of the life that has passed.

Made by hand from recycled newspapers and hand finished with paper made from mulberry pulp, the Ecopod is available in a range of colours with screen-printed motifs, plain white, or gold.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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BIONICTILE: DESIGN OF GLAZED CERAMIC PRODUCTS FOR THE SELECTIVE REDUCTION OF ENVIROMENTAL NOX / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

FRANCISCO RAYA, FELIPE SIERRA AND JOSE LUÍS ROS / CERACASA, S.A.COLLABORATORS

FMC FORET AND THE CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF THE VALENCIA POLYTECHNIC UNI-VERSITY

Bionictile® is a ceramic product designed after a process of microscopic observa-tion of plant leaves that imitates their pattern to increase the specific surface of the ceramic piece that is in contact with air.

This design makes the enamel photocatalyst that, along with the sun’s UV rays, breaks down the pollution in cities in large quantities. Bionictile® is able to break down NOX air at a rate of 31.2 mg per m2 per hour. Values which make this product a continuous decontamination tool and very inexpensive.

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

BOBHANGER (THE ECOLOGICAL HANGER) / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

JOAN NADAL / ZECODESIGN

Bobhanger is made from recycled cardboard and needs two reused bottles to function. The clothes hanger and PET bottles are two small objects with a large environmental footprint. The proposed solution is to make recyclable hangers from just one material, and recycle bottles along the way. The middle object is a cardboard design that folds into the main structure, to which two reused water bottles are attached. A rolled up magazine can also be stuck through the holes.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNBUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE

TITLE / YEAR

BOLD CHAIR – BENCH / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

ANA YAGO AND JOSÉ ANTONIO JIMÉNEZ / SANSERIF CREATIUS, S.L.

Chair or bench in 100% biodegradable corrugated cardboard. Functional and unexpensive. Auxiliary processes are reduced to the production of the assembly unit. Also reduced are costs, environmental impact and the collateral energy consumption. Its assembly and handling are carried out exclusively in special employment centres to reinforce values of integration and respect, not just envi-ronmental, but also social.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

BILLBIRDHOUSE / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

MICHAEL BOM / BOMDESIGN

The Billbirdhouse is a birdhouse made from used billboards. Mostly boards with typographic, artistic prints have been used. The handles for the birds to perch on come from markets, pieces of furniture thrown onto the street or bro-ken umbrellas lying in the street after a windy day.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

BILLDOGHOUSE / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY


Billdoghouse is a dog kennel made from the typical used billboards of a “For Rent” or “For Sale” sign used in The Netherlands. The number of billboards used depends on the size of the dog, but in most cases, just a billboard is required for the complete kennel.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

BIOCLIMATIC COMMUNITY / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

LUCÍA ARRANZ AND MIGUEL ORDÓÑEZCLIENT

BIOCLIMÁTICOS

The logo represents the Bioclimatic Community, a meeting place for people in-terested in bioclimatic architecture and the environment.

The figure is a house because it is the base of architectural activity, the main discipline in which the project developer, Edwin Rodriguez, works. The leaf instead of the chimney symbolizes the renewable energies and photosynthesis, a fundamental process for life. The colours, brown and green, are a reference to the Earth.

GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNS

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TITLE / YEAR

CAVALLUM / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

TATI GUIMARÃES / CICLUSCLIENT

HERA HOLDING

Cavallum is a box of wine that becomes a lamp. It has been designed by Ciclus, a sustainable design studio in Barcelona founded by Tati Guimarães.

Originally created as a corporate gift for Hera Holding, the box is made of recycled cardboard and certified wood. Hera, a Barcelona firm that manages waste, asked Tati for a surprising gift that had a powerful ecological message. The unusual lamp was approved with honours and that drove its commercializa-tion to a wider branch of consumers.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNBUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE

TITLE / YEAR

CC8. CLIMATE CONFERENCE. CLIMATE CONCERT / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

COMMANDO GROUP CLIENT

HAFSLUND BY APPOINTMENT OF KITCHEN AD AGENCY

The identity is based on a typographic composition of “CC” and “8”. The sys-tem is designed to be used in future Conferences. The symbol communicates the circulatory system. The idea is that the symbol can be used alone or together with the Signature “CC8 Climate Concert & Climate Conference”.

The paper used is grey recycled which, against the black and white used in the trademark symbol, reflects an environmentally friendly stance, in addition to the pure visual qualities and characteristics.


TITLE / YEAR

CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES “SLUNÁKOV” / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

ROMAN BRYCHTA (MGR. AKAD. ARCH.), ADAM HALÍ AND PETR LEŠEK (ING. ARCH.) AND ONDREJ HOFMEISTER (ING.) / PROJEKTIL ARCHITEKTI S.R.O.CLIENT

CITY OLOMOUC, NATIONAL FOUND OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC FOR ENVIRONMENTCOLLABORATORS

KATERINA HORÁKOVÁ, KATARÍNA JÄGROVÁ AND LENKA SLÍVOVÁ (ING. ARCH.) / WWW.KULTI-VAR.CZ (GRAPHIC DESIGNERS)

Centre “Slunákov” has been designed for full yearlong operation. The heat de-mand is covered using a combination of renewable energy sources –biomass and solar energy. Ventilation and warm air heating are ensured by fresh air and by warm air circulation ventilation with heat recovery from outgoing air. The earth heat exchanger serves mainly to bring cooler air inside in the summer months. Two automatic wood pellet furnaces provide the main source of heat for heating and are a supplementary source for heating the hot water.

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING

TITLE / YEAR

BONA DUST CARE SYSTEM / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

BONA / BONA IBERICA

Bona DCS 70 has a long-lasting Hepa filter and a patented 2-step cyclone sys-tem. These two features enable drastically longer running times. The totally sealed system prevents any dust from escaping when changing the bag, guaran-teeing a dust-free process at all stages.

The new Bona DCS 70 is also easier to transport thanks to the ergonomic handles and big wheels.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

BONA THINK DO GREEN / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

BONA / BONA IBERICA

The firm’s mission is to bring out the best in wooden floors. Bona is a family-owned company founded in 1919. A long-term ownership has enabled them to work with a long-term commitment to innovation based on concern and respect, always with a sustainable outlook and taking floor, craftsman and indoor out-door environment in mind. Bona strives to continuously launch better products with less environmental impact.

BUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE

TITLE / YEAR

BOOK LAMP / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY


Michael Bom has always been interested in books and this inspired him to make a lamp out of a used book. A source of inspiration was also how books are constructed. The “architecture” of a book makes it really strong and durable. With this in mind, he carried through his design.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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COMBOX, THE NEW GENERATION OF COMPOSTERS / 2008-2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

COMPOSTADORES

Combox is a new generation of composters which are eco-designed, locally manufactured, high-quality, adaptable, modular, compartmentable, extendable, versatile and accessible to everyone. The Combox are unique because they allow the incorporation of a base that makes them suitable for paved floors.

They help stop climate change and are transported efficiently and packed with recyclable and reusable packaging.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

CROSSWAY / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

MR RICHARD HAWKES / HAWKES ARCHITECTURE LTD.CLIENT

MR & MRS HAWKESCOLLABORATORS

ECOLIBRIUM SOLUTIONS

Crossway is a sustainable home nestled quietly within the English countryside, flooded with daylight beneath a soaring terracotta Timbrel vault handmade from clay dug within 6 km of the site. The vault is exposed throughout the house, soaring as though somehow defying gravity. The layout is simple, spa-cious and airy. Every room has a unique joy. The sun is harnessed to provide all energy needs.


TITLE / YEAR

DESIGN ACTIVISM: BEAUTIFUL STRANGENESS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

ALASTAIR FUAD-LUKE / EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD. CLIENT

EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD.

This is a comprehensive synthesis of emerging expressions of design activism which aim to deliver positive social, environmental and ethical impacts. Its aim is to bring to life the diverse nature of design activism by examining its history, design approaches and methods, and providing contemporary examples.

Design Activism challenges professional, pro-am and citizen designers to con-tribute to new processes of participatory engagement that enable improved so-cial capacity to transit to more sustainable ways of living and working.

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CENTRE FOR ENVIROMENTAL EDUCATION, ARCHAEOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN ZUTPHEN, THE NETHERLANDS / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

GROTENBREG ARCHITECTENCLIENT

GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF ZUTPHEN

The Centre for Enviromental Education, Archaeology and Sustainability in Zutphen bore the following aspects in mind: Life Cycle Assesment; renewable resource concept; low energy-day-light-approach; industrial, prefabricated, flex-ible use and disassembling-building-techniques; healthy working-conditions; ac-curate selection of the right kind of wood for the right function; green roofs against dust and to keep rainwater; low-temperature-wall and floor-heating; central cableduct for infrastructure for electricity and data; and self-regulating air-grid for fresh-air ventilation.


TITLE / YEAR

CINEMA BOOK / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

EDUARDO DEL FRAILECLIENT

GENERAL DIRECTORATE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF MURCIA A. REGIONCOLLABORATORS

JUAN JIMENEZ (DESIGN ASSISTANT) / JAVIER UROSAS (PHOTOGRAPHY)

Cinema-Book was designed with the aim of increasing people’s awareness to take part in a humanitarian project of cultural exchange with Spanish-speaking countries.

The book shows a photographic sequence in which, making use of a visual metaphor, the act of distributing culture can be seen.

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TITLE / YEAR

CITY GARDEN MODEL / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

ÁNGEL ARAGONÉS / DODECAEDRO, S.A.CLIENT

ALCORCÓN TOWN COUNCIL

This garden model creates passages and locations with seating-containing ele-ments necessary to conform to an environment punctuated by a shade of veg-etation. Its visitors are graced with floral fragrances in locations that could not naturally sustain the planting of trees.

The seats and armrests have been ergonomically designed. Its self-irrigation system saves and reduces water consumption. It needs very limited maintenance. The whole model, carried out with a diversity of materials, stands for low cost, high aesthetic design, a perfect link between nature and sustainability.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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DONATE YOUR MOBILE / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

210 PUBLICIAD, FUNDACIÓN ENTRECULTURAS AND SPANISH RED CROSS / 210 PUBLICIDAD

Everything seems to be perishable in the society we live in today. Everything quickly becomes obsolete, whether or not it is still useful”. With this in mind the Spanish Red Cross and “Entreculturas” have launched the Donate your Mobile campaign, a social action aimed at mobile phone users with a double purpose: using the income generated for re-using mobiles for humanitarian and education actions in the least favoured countries, and helping protect the environment by collecting mobiles no longer in use.

All this by fostering their re-use and recycling.


TITLE / YEAR

DUCHI / 2004AUTHOR / COMPANY

CÉSARE PEEREN / 2012ARCHITECTENCLIENT

DUCHI SHOESTORECOLLABORATORS

JAN KORBES AND MARCO BROEDERS

Shoestore Duchi has been built out of surplus materials. The central element is a shoe fitting island, made from surplus wood. Two ergonomic couches have been made with a footrest at working height for the employees. The back of the couch functions as a support for customers trying out new shoes, which they can do by walking on the conveyor belt from a supermarket. The circular shelves around the seating island give shape to the fitting area. This way the shop stays one entity, spatially and functionally.


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DVELAS / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

ENRIQUE KAHLE, ARRAITZ KOCH, BORJA FUENTES, ESPERANZA KAHLE AND CARLOS MARTÍNEZ / DVELAS REUSAIL PROYECT

Dvelas designs and manufactures contemporary furnishings reutilising old used sails. The spontaneous idea of converting used sails into useful objects, acquires a bigger complexity when it evolves into an ethical initiative based on four fundamental strategic lines: Econversion (simple transformation processes that insist on the material’s smooth quality), Excellence (unique products with a precise identification of their history and origins), Responsibility (an active and voluntary contribution to the improvement of the social, working and ecological environments) and Promotion (of the ecology, sailing and design).


TITLE / YEAR

DESIGNERS, VISIONARIES AND OTHER STORIES: A COLLECTION OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN ESSAYS / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

JONATHAN CHAPMAN AND NICK GANT / EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD.CLIENT


This book unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming eco-logical crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited progress. This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners, professionals, students and academics and which provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today.

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DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST. A PROJECT BY ROTOR / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

LIONEL DEVLIEGER, MAARTEN GIELEN, TRISTAN BONIVER AND MICHAËL GHYOOT / ROTOR CLIENT

URSULA BLICKLE STIFTUNG (COMMISSIONER)

The Brussels based collective Rotor defines itself as a platform for the endorse-ment of industrial waste re-use. Deutschland im Herbst was both an exhibition (at the Ursula Blickle Stiftung in Kraichtal, Germany), and a publication.

The aim of the project was to reflect upon the very moment an industrial waste-product comes into being. The catalogue provides text and image to such origination processes, through a series of eleven specific study-cases.

The photograph, by Ccil Michel and François De Herdt shows the “Drooling of white foamed polyurethane from a boots factory”.

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DOG POO BAGS / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

NINA DAUTZENBERG AND ANDREA GADESMANN / JUNGESCHACHTEL

These humorous paper bags for the stylish and practical disposal of dog poo turn the less attractive moments in the life of a dog owner into an original hap-pening. The 16 recyclable paper bags mean a simple, clean and practical disposal of dog poo. Funny prints, such as “Doggy bag”, “Don’t blame me” or “Size matters” make the walk to the next garbage bin an easy task. The idea for dog poo bags was born out of the authors’ passion for dogs and design.

The daily walks with Cuno, the agency’s dog, served as a source of inspira-tion.

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ECOLOGICAL DESIGN: TOWARDS DESIGN AND PRODUCTION IN HARMONY WITH NATURE / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

JOAQUÍM VIÑOLAS MARLET / EDITORIAL BLUMECLIENT

EDITORIAL BLUMECOLLABORATORS

LYIDIA CARRASCO RODRÍGUEZ (GRAPHIC DESIGN)

This book seeks to explore into what is understood by ecological design from a number of different points of view, including those of biology, history, sociology, philosophy, technology and methodology. It is as much concerned with theoreti-cal aspects as it is with practical ones and hence it tries to set out information, tools and principles which may be useful when implementing social and environ-mental projects in the human-made environment.

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TITLE / YEAR

ECONO / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

IVÁN MARTÍN / EQUILICUÁ COLLABORATORS

GOODFORE S.L. / MURRAY (PACKAGING DESIGN)

Econo is a small greenhouse for plants in flowerpots or vegetable gardens that protects and optimizes the use of water. Taking advantage of the combination of evaporation (sun heat) and condensation (afternoon cooling) it traps water evaporating from the soil and returns it to the pot. As such, the amount of water necessary for the survival of the plant is reduced.

Econo helps preserve a natural resource, while educating and communicating about environmental commitment.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

ECOPACK’S ATTITUDE AT THE DESIGNPACK GALLERY / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

FABRICE PELTIER / P’REFERENCE-DESIGNPACKGALLERY

The Designpack Gallery is a space dedicated to the art of packaging design.This exhibition draws up a panorama of packaging’s ecological footprint and

presents innovative solutions in ecoconception. A type of packaging that pol-lutes less all along its life cycle helps consumers get rid of it in a better way. That is the new global challenge.

Along with the exhibition, a conference was held around the same topic.


TITLE / YEAR

ECOALF, FABRICS FOR A NEW GENERATION / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

GRUPO FUN&BASICS S.A.COLLABORATORS

CATALAN CENTRE FOR RECYCLING, CATALAN AGENCY FOR WASTE TREATMENT, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND HOUSIN / JULIO RODRIGO, HEAD OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER-ING DEPARTMENT

Fun&basics has managed to bring creativity and environmental commitment together, and has created the first 100% recyclable collection. The components of these models have been selected so that they can be recycled. The collection can therefore be 100% recyclable using Ecoalf 1.0.

Ecoalf is an exclusive fabric made with two polyester threads that are 100% recycled using PET plastic bottles, recyclable TPE backing, PVC free.


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ECO-BULEVAR DE VALLECAS. MADRID / 2004-2005 (FASE I), 2006-2007 (FASE II)AUTHOR / COMPANY

BELINDA TATO, JOSE LUIS VALLEJO AND DIEGO GARCÍA-SETIÉN / ECOSISTEMA URBANOCLIENT

MUNICIPAL URBAN LAND AND HOUSING COMPANY. MADRID CITY COUNCILCOLLABORATORS

I. PRIETO, M. E. LACARRA, D. DELGADO, D. BENITO, J. EIZAGUIRRE, P. LUCAS, A. LOPEZ, A. BARREDO, L. CASAS, F. PEPE AND M. MORADIELLOS / TECTUM INGENIERÍA, S.L. (STRUCTURE) / IP INGENIERÍA (INSTALLATIONS) / I. LÓPEZ (BOTANICAL ITEMS) / C. AMORÓS AND M. GONZÁLEZ (SURVEYORS) / GRUPO ENTORNO, S.A. (CONSTRUCTORS).

The Eco-Boulevard Of Vallecas can be defined as an operation of urban re-cycling: an installation of three socially revitalizing air-trees. Placed along the existing housing complex, it reduces and re-arranges asymmetric traffic routes and the superficial area within the existing housing complex, thus achieving the reconfiguration of the executed urban development.


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ECOHOSTEL / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

MAARTEN VERBRUGGHE AND LISELOT CLAEYS / ECOHOSTEL ANDROMEDA

Ecohostel originates from the need for budget accommodation in a city with growing sustainability awareness. Adaptive reuse of an old barge combined with ecological techniques provides the guests the opportunity to travel with a lower ecological footprint, without compromising comfort.


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EMBELL SYSTEM, FIRST MOPPING KIT USING CLEAN WATER / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

EMBELL EQUIPMENT / DESARROLLO INDUSTRIAL EMBELL, S.L.

Embell System is specially-designed to increase cleaning quality with its un-matched clean water supply system. Its internal design is entirely mechanical, so it requires no maintenance and no external power source.

To use it, the tank must be filled with water so that every time the mop is used, it is done in fresh, clean water, with no refilling requirements. The system automatically supplies itself with clean water, making mopping more effective, as well as avoiding the accumulation of residual filth on the floor. It reduces the number of refills, thus reducing the amount of water, time and cleaning products needed to mop.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

TITLE / YEAR

EMOTIONALLY DURABLE DESIGN: OBJECTS, EXPERIENCES AND EMPATHY / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

JONATHAN CHAPMAN / EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD.CLIENT


Emotionally Durable Design is a call to arms for professionals, students and academic creatives. The publication proposes the emergence of a new genre of sustainable design that reduces consumption and waste by increasing the dura-bility of relationships established between users and products. In this provoca-tive text, Jonathan Chapman pioneers a radical design about-face to reduce the impact of modern consumption without compromising commercial viability or creative edge.

PUBLISHING

TITLE / YEAR

EPHEMERAL RESTAURANT CASSIA / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

DIEGO AND PEDRO SERRANO / INNOVA::DESIGNERS

The sustainable project Cassia champions recycling at DecorHabitat 2008, the decoration, art and design fair of the city of Lerida. In this edition, the Ser-rano Brothers have designed a space for a café-restaurant, constructed under the motto of sustainability.

The project consists of re-using all the discarded materials generated by the construction of the fair itself, during the week before the opening date, so that it becomes the raw material used for the decoration and construction of the café and restaurant of the same fair.


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ECOPÉRGOLA MODEL TAO / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

ÁNGEL ARAGONÉS / DODECAEDRO, S.A. CLIENT

ALCORCÓN TOWN COUNCIL

This pergola creates shade and shelter and a floating vegetable garden to be used in areas where it is impossible to plant trees. This creates a balanced equilibrium between industrial design and a high level of natural sustainability.

The Ecopergola has capacity to cover 25 m2 surface area per unit and is sup-ported by one mast. Its self-irrigation system saves and reduces water consump-tion and needs limited maintenance. Made with a diversity of materials and fabrication methods.

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ECOPROYECTA / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

F33CLIENT

ECOPROYECTA / PABLO CARBONELL ALONSO

Ecoproyecta is a sustainable architecture company and its corporate identity had to transmit its work philosophy and foundation values. The self-promotional element represents one of this company’s aspirations: to reduce CO2 emissions with its activity, a decisive factor in climate change.

This element is a cardboard mini-box, which contains a pot and oregano, mint or basil seeds of the Laminaceae family, one of the most important Mediterrane-an species –from the ethnobotanical and economic point of view. Furthermore, the box is designed to be reused as a pencil case. GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPAIGNS

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EL-RECETARIO.NET. CONSTRUCTIVE SOLUTIONS FROM WASTE / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

FLOU FLOU / ASOCIACIÓN MAKEA TU VIDACLIENT

ASOCIACIÓN MAKEA TU VIDA

El-Recetario.Net is an online platform of knowledge exchange, which allows the cataloguing, consultation and management of constructive recipes for the household. El-Recetario.Net is an open code project, with free access and free consultation.

The recipes are furniture solutions from the creative reuse of waste, with de-tailed instructions for assembly with the materials and the steps for users to build their own furniture and spaces.

PUBLISHING BUSINESS, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE

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FAT BOB ROCKER / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

FRANÇOIS ROYER / STANKER

Fat Bob Rocker is a rocking chair with adjustable swing, refined lines and im-peccable finishings. Creative recycling meets neo-retro design in the Stanker Col-lection, one designer’s reaction to a culture of relentless consuming and waste. French designer Francois Royer’s part-time hobby has evolved into a full-blown expression of both the economy of re-use and the creation of functional art from industrial debris.

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FUJY SOSTENIBLE HOUSE / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

LUCA LANCINI CLIENT

MAYTE ARIZA DE ALBERTY

Fujy House is an initiative whose objective is to show through an example done to scale, that sustainability is possible “here and now” and that it can be achieved on the one hand by using existing constructive and technological ele-ments that can be found on the Spanish market, and on the other hand by raising awareness amongst the leading companies of the sector.

The housing has been designed in accordance with the rules of bioclimatic ar-chitecture, using materials of low environmental impact and via the installation of various technological systems that guarantee maximum efficiency.


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GARDENY / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

FELIP PICH-AGUILERA BAURIER, TERESA BATLLE PAGÉS AND JOSÉ MARIA PUIGDEMASA HOSPITAL / PICH AGUILERA AND ARQUITECTOS S.P.L. CLIENT

CONSORTIUM OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL AGRO-INDUSTRY CENTRE COLLABORATORS

A. SENDARRUBIAS, J. MILANÉS, P. CASALDALIGA, B. ROS, J. CAMPS, M. DOLCET, J. GOMEZ, BOMA-SALA, EINESA, SOCIETAT ORGANICA, F. SOLSONA AND CIMNE-BEE-GROUP

Gardeny is an architectural proposal which consists of rehabilitating three “H buildings” (military quarters of Lerida city) and reconverting them into big con-tainers of multiple usage, for industrial research and the agro-food university.

The buildings are going to be formalized into a single building through modu-lar umbrageous greenhouses originating directly from the innovative agricultur-al world, thus generating a thermal space that, together with other bioclimatic strategies, allow for the use of the existing natural resources in an efficient way.


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ERGONOMIC BONA MINI EDGER / 2003AUTHOR / COMPANY

BONA / BONA IBERICA

Bona Mini Edge is the handy, lightweight edger for sanding not just the edges of rooms but also stair-steps and landings. It has a dust-free system and comes equipped with an integrated halogen spotlight. Bona Mini Edge won the “Red Dot Design Award” in 2004 –one of the most prestigious industrial design com-petitions worldwide.

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EXHIBITION XPOELDER: CLIMATE CHANGE / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

OCEANOGRÁFICA: DIVULGACIÓN, EDUCACIÓN Y CIENCIA, S.L.CLIENT

ELDER MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Xpoelder: Climate Change is part of a collection of itinerant exhibitions whose motto is “the museum where you are”. Their purpose is to move science directly to schools and stimulate the curiosity of students towards various scientific is-sues and the importance of science in life.

Made by the Elder and the Publishing Company Oceanográfica, it raises awareness, through comics characters, to climate change and encourages visi-tors to find solutions to it.


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F. H. I. F. F. / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

JODY BARTON

F. H. I. F. F. –“Fuckin’ Hell It’s Fuckin’ Fucked” consists of a booklet, T-shirt and Screenprint. It is part of a personal project to examine the climate change debate from a new position. The designer imagines what the debate may look like from various points of view: somebody from thousands of years in the future, from ancient Greece, from another planet, or from the position of a bacteria. Does the humanist vision exist outside of space and time?


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HEADBOARD PALLET / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

PABLO MACÍAS AND BELÉN SÁNCHEZ / CUATRO TUERCAS

A sustainable design would be a design that not only doesn’t generate any but also diminishes existing waste. A design that, at a glance, shows its intention and invites people to change their habits. An excellent sustainable design would be one in which the only energy that is consumed is the creative type. The Head-board Pallet points to that direction.

Its aim is sustainability and functionality, without giving up aesthetic values. The pallet adapts perfectly to its new function only by changing its context.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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HOM, AUTONOMOUS SOLAR STREET LIGHT / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

ALESSANDRO CAVIASCA / STUDIO ITINERANTE ARQUITECTURA, S.L.

Hom, Autonomous Solar Street Light is modern, functional and full perform-ing all in one. A LED programmable system allows huge autonomy and high efficiency, does not generate heat or need maintenance, and lights all night even in winter months. Its stand alone system makes it unnecessary to dig trenches to connect it and makes it possible to light isolated areas. It has a useful life of 50,000 hours (LED system).

Hom esthetical, technical and specific energy aspects make it an element with high performance and low environmental impact.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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HOUSE AND SUSTAINABILITY IN SPAIN / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

TONI SOLANAS / TONI SOLANAS’ ARCHIQUECTURE STUDIO CLIENT

EDITORIAL GUSTAVO GILI

The quality of Spanish architecture is valued throughout the world. However, the degree of sustainability of the buildings is still poor. This is why it is worth getting acquainted with some examples by those who are starting their way to-wards managing building resources which are friendlier with the environment: bioclimatic buildings, changes or improvements in the industry, ecological con-structions and restoration among others.

This publication is a reference for sustainable architecture in which thirty-two architects express their concerns and show us forty buildings where solutions that will soon be widely used are applied.

PUBLISHING

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GOOD FOR ENVIRONMENT! (G4E!) / 2004AUTHOR / COMPANY

MAITE CANTÓN, VICTOR ARCE, SANTIAGO RISCO, JENNA WATSON, MARIANO SANZ AND IVÁN MARTÍN / GOODFORE, S.L.

The ecodesign platform Good For Environment! (G4E!) is a business project that seeks to contribute to sustainable development in its three dimensions: so-cial, economic and environmental. It provides the necessary values and solu-tions, mediating in the process of conception and production and acting as a link between the principal actors in society.

G4E! looks to provide sustainable criteria and solutions starting from the early stages of conceptualization, when it is possible to efficiently reduce the impact of a product or service.


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GREEN BOX / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

LUIS DE GARRIDOCLIENT

ANAVIF - ANAS (SPANISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE)

Green Box is the first modular building prefabricated, reusable, transportable, bioclimatic, with an infinite life cycle, with zero energy consumption, and with-out waste generation.

Luis de Garrido was inspired by natural and emergent shapes in land, sea and sky and discovered that triangles are the most natural shapes in Nature. These triangles enable one of the aims of Green Box ’s design to be reached: to give the home a landscaped roof that can be passed by as if it were continuing the land.


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GREEN SPOT “CEMEX LIMPIO” / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

RAÚL RODRÍGUEZ DE TORRES, JUAN ANTONIO ALONSO GARCÍA AND SORIANO PLATAS / CEMEX, S.A. AND SP ARQUITECTURA E INGENIERIA, S.L. CLIENT

CEMEX, S.A.

Cemexlimpio by concrete company Cemex is a green spot. Its vocation for flex-ibility creates a system through modular elements linked where standard waste containers are placed. Each “L” shaped module is leaned upon the previous one allowing for different lengths and flexible lay-outs. A slight disorder is kept to remind people of what waste looks like. The colours are the current waste codes, to be easily recognized and help the critical moment, just when waste is split up. It is made with a recycled material: return waste concrete.


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ARTEMATICA VITRUM BASE / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

GABRIELE CENTAZZO / VALCUCINE

A perfect synthesis of sense of beauty, high quality and technology, all Artem-atica Vitrum Base arrangements have unique features that are the result of extremely innovative techniques, such as dematerialisation. This construction method makes the door extremely resistant to humidity, heat and impact as well as making it lighter, with consequent longer hinge life and more silent closing movements.

All these features result in less consumption of materials and energy and thus in an eco-compatible approach to production.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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ISER / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

DAVID RODRIGUEZ / ISER

Based in Valencia, Spain, Iser (Renewable Energy Systems And Integration) is a company specialised in developing studies on energy efficiency, engineering, promotion, planning, development and construction of projects for solar, wind, geothermal and biomass energy. Iser has implemented more than 100 installa-tions all over Spain, including ground-breaking projects ranging from natural parks to international collaborations focused on implementing systems such as solar air-conditioning or spatial solar technology for terrestrial applications.


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KYOTO HOUSE / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

FELIPE PICH-AGUILERA AND TERESA BATLLE / PICH AGUILERA, ARQUITECTOS S.P.L. AND PMP, S.L. CLIENT

PMP, S.L. PROMOCIONES

Kyoto House is a single-family house made of concrete, based on sustainability criteria. Thanks to a rational and repeatable scheme, this project aims to intro-duce all the aspects to which sustainable architecture must answer: good passive behaviour (bioclimatic design), integrating intermediate spaces and constructive systems that help reduce energy and resource demand; building-integrated re-newable energy systems and finally, materials and construction proposals that take recycling, reutilization and the environment into account.

The building structure has been commercially designed jointly by the company Prefabricados Pujol and Promotions Montse Pujol (PMP SL).


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I’M NOT JUST A BOX / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

GUILLEM FERRAN CLIENT

CAMPER

COLLABORATORS

FASCINATION PROJECT, CAMPER

The author’s proposal is that costumers may re-use the Camper cardboard shoe-box. By using a belt with it, the box can turn into a rucksack to be used for a certain period of time.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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IMPULSE COLLECTION / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

MICHIEL VAN DER KLEY / UNSEEN PRODUCTSCLIENT

UNSEEN PRODUCTS

In 2007 the author won a prize with the design of paper lights at a contest organised by a group of paper producing companies from Nepal. While getting the prototypes ready, he researched into the possibility of making 3 dimensional, organically curved shapes with paper. After a lot of experiments and tests, using very thin layers of the local paper (lokta paper) and a special kind of glue made it possible.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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INTERNATIONAL GREEN ROOF CONGRESS / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

WOLFGANG ANSEL / IGRA - INTERNATIONAL GREEN ROOF ASSOCIATION

Under the banner of “Bringing Nature Back to Town”, almost 300 green roof professionals from around the world got together for 3 intensive days of experi-ence transfer. Participants from 40 countries and 5 continents substantiated very clearly that rooftop greening has become a “global player” in the field of sus-tainable building concepts. Sustainable urban development places high demand on the technical, ecological and aesthetic quality of construction.

The goal is to build in harmony with nature and, thanks to green roof architec-ture, to create attractive living spaces and habitats.


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NEOROMÁNTICO SUSTAINABLE BENCH / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

MIGUEL MILÁ / SANTA & COLE

The Neoromántico Sostenible Bench is the result of a revision of the classical NeoRomántico bench, an icon in design in the European public space, designed by Miguel Milá in 1995. Composed of a structure with a recycled polypropylene injection arm with 30% long fibreglass and PVC extrusion slats blended with 50% recycled plant fibres, the Neoromántico Sostenible Bench is created as an urban element committed to the environment and attentive to the new technolo-gies and trends of the public space.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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NEW BRIDGE OVER THE HENARES RIVER NEXT TO THE ARABIC BRIDGE IN GUADALAJARA, SPAIN / 2002-2003 (PROJECT), 2006-2008 (WORK)AUTHOR / COMPANY

MAITE AGUADO ROCA AND XAVIER CARRASCAL FRÍAS / CMKM ARQUITECTURACLIENT

GUADALAJARA CITY COUNCILCOLLABORATORS

ESTEYCO

The main objective of this new bridge was to split the Arabic Bridge into two in order to support the increasing traffic between the two river banks. The Arabic Bridge is a building dated from the 10th Century and declared Historic Heritage.

The objective of the project editor team is to take the split of the Arabic Bridge as a reciprocal dialogue relationship between the two bridges. The result is understood as a performance that unites the historical presence of the Arabic Bridge, the new infrastructure and the environment.


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NEW PACKAGING / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

JOAN RIPOLLES ARRUFAT / NEW PACKAGING, S.ACLIENT

NEW PACKAGING, S.A

This packaging is manufactured under the Cradle to Cradle philosophy: recy-cled and recyclable products for life. Eco-design is applied to the whole process: decoration, transport system, re-use, recycling, in order to achieve eco-efficiency in the process and in the products.

The result is packaging with high technical properties and also adapted to the clients’ needs. It has both the advantages of plastic and the price and operative characteristics of compact cardboard.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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LAUREANA HOUSE / 2003-2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

AURELIO CALDERÓN AND ANA MARÍA GONZÁLEZ / LAUREANA ARQUITECTURA SOSTENIBLE

This single family home is set within a vault, which unites the structure, enclo-sure, insulation and roof in this element. Bioclimatic design and the use of bio-construction materials and constructive solutions, passive natural ventilation systems and clean energies converge in this construction. The water used in the home is cycled through a natural purifier. This building’s design is a reflection of the landscape, allowing true integration into its surroundings.


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LUCE LAMP / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY


The Luce Lamp is made from a used book Mikael Bom found in secondhand shops. It is multifunctional as it can be used as a wall sconce as well as a table lamp.

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MADE IN GREEN LABEL / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

AITEX (TECNOLOGICAL TEXTILY INSTITUTE)

The “Made in Green” label has three fundamental concepts: Health (the textiles article contains no substances that are harmful to health), respect for the envi-ronment (the article has been manufactured in production centres with an ex-ternally audited and certified environmental management standard), and respect for workers’ human rights according to the ILO in the production centres where the article is manufactured.


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PNEU_FABRIC COVER TO MAKE A SEAT OUT OF TWO OLD TIRES / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

GABRIELA CHANG VALDOVINOS / DAY DREAMING, S.L..

The end of a product life may become the beginning of a new one. Discarded tyres become a new object when they are given a new use.

Pneu is a fabric circumference with a cord inserted in its brim, to allow for a tyre inside. It creates a tense and hammock-like surface to sit on, in a simple wrap and tighten system. By piling up two tyres, a comfortable height for a seat is achieved. It is also a simple way to solve basic furniture needs in urban and rural areas. Its interior can be used as storage space.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT: FROM VICIOUS CIRCLES TO VIRTUOUS CYCLES THROUGH BUILT EN-VIRONMENT DESIGN / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

JANIS BIRKELAND / EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD. CLIENT


In this book Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all, without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a “sustainability solution”. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the ecoretrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode to achieve this end.

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POSTERS / 2006-2009 AUTHOR / COMPANY

ELZBIETA CHOJNA

The posters here presented are made of cut-out pieces of paper. The work is ecological as the materials used are utilized very economically. Cut pieces of paper which remain after making a poster are stored and used in further works. The pieces that are too small to use are recycled.

Ecology should be like nature, full of forms and colours. This is the reason why loud colours are chosen for the ecoposters. The topics the author is most inter-ested in, in relation to natural environment are concerned with the problems of animals –both domestic and wild– and the uneven fight between man and the animal world.


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OKO BUILDING / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

JAVIER SEGARRA SANCHIS / BIOTECTURA, S.L.COLLABORATORS

PATRICIA VILAR AND VERÓNICA VEGA (INTERIOR DESIGN) / SETSOLAR ECOENERGIAS, S.L. (SOLAR PANNELS) / SISTEM CUBIERTAS IBERICA, S.L. (FSC WOOD BOARDS)

The building incorporates the first deck of Spain with great lights and great height made from FSC plywood and photovoltaic solar panels with a power of 210 KW. It is self-financing up to 88%, with the production and sale of photo-voltaic electricity. Through a combination of biomass, geothermal, solar thermal and LED lighting, the building achieves 77% maintenance savings over a con-ventional building of the same characteristics. The building is the headquarters of the network of sustainable entrepreneur “Oko” and houses the centre for innovation and development for bio-sustainable buildings.


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PARC DEL PINAR DE PERRUQUET / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

GERARD VECIANA & ELISABET FAURA ARCHITECTS / ARTEKS ARQUITECTURACLIENT

VILA-SECA TOWN COUNCIL AND GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA PTOP ( DIRECTORATE OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE) COLLABORATORS

AMATRIA INGENIERIA, JAVIER PENALBA, URSSA FIBERLINE AND MYJ GRUAS

In Mediterranean peri-urban littoral, the pollution of maritime aerosol affects the survival and the growth of pines and other plants. In this situation, creating an ex-tension forest like the existing one is not viable. The coastal pine groves of “piñone-ro” (pine-nut) pine have both great landscape and ecological value, and are habitats worth preserving for their broader public interest. Since it is not possible to replant a pine grove as the existing one, the proposal here is to generate an artificial shade by means of a pergola that is reminiscent of the semidarkness of the pine grove.


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PENMAN / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

MICHAEL BOM AND ANTOINET DEURLOO / BOMDESIGN

The Penman is a penholder made from a used vinyl record. It is moulded by the four hands of the designers and Each piece has a unique shape.It is a very stable object and can hold a considerable amount of pencils and other stationary items.

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REFUNC / 2003AUTHOR / COMPANY

DENIS OUDENDIJK AND JAN KORBES / REFUNC.NL COLLABORATORS

MANTAS LESAUSKAS, ISIS HOOS, THIJS MASTHOF, KAY KLOP, BART GROENEWEGEN, JOB SALTZHER, DIRK OVERDUIN, JOEP DE GROOT, THOMAS TRUM, TJEU DONDERS AND BORIS DUIJNEVELD

Garbage architecture provides a second life for found or thrown-away objects and operates on the borders of architecture, art and design, creating new prod-ucts from old materials. Origin for designs is found in the object itself, by listen-ing to its own composition, history, or local and social context. The authors do not start from a design, they need a problem to play with, 3D troubleshooting, and creative improvisation with whatever is locally available.

Waste materials lead the way to often unpredictable results. Wherever there is garbage, this work team can do research and workshops on creative recycling.


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RELAJA (SUSTAINABLE URBAN FURNITURE) / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

JON MARÍN AND ÁLEX JIMÉNEZ / NUTCREATIVES

The project concept “Relaja” was developed in the Canary Islands to improve the local situation. The waste treatment of stone slabs from a construction com-pany was the starting point. This waste was recovered through the design of a modular outdoor bench due to the local demand for non-imported public furniture. Furthermore, the simple production of Relaja might support the in-tegration of people at risk of social exclusion, giving a solution to a diagnosed problem in the Local Agenda 21. Thus, this product is a transposable example of how design can help the local economy, ecology and society.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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RESSENY / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

JON MARÍN

Resseny (www.resseny.blogspot.com) is an online platform from which to spread good practices whereby design in its widest sense has an important role for the promotion of sustainable values. Regularly updated, the author of Resseny re-views from a refreshing and rigorous perspective many different examples of products, services, systems or strategies related to design and its environment.

The website was born three years ago with the aim of being an informational and educational tool, a channel for communication and popularization of design for sustainability.


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PRET A PORTER / 2002AUTHOR / COMPANY

ROCA CERÁMICA TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT / ROCA CERAMICA

The tile range Roca’s Pret a Porter porcelain is an innovative and sustainable system whose most notable feature is that it can be laid 100% dry and instantly, without the need for cement or pointing.

This highly versatile system, exclusive to Roca, is very clean, generates no waste or rubble at all and allows for complete removal for subsequent reuse. Moreover, the pieces are easy to replace and can be used from the moment of laying.

Roca places itself in the forefront of the permanent search for solutions that combine quality, design and sustainable development.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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R4 HOUSE / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

LUIS DE GARRIDO CLIENT


R4House are the two sprucest transportable and bioclimatic houses in the world to be built entirely from recycled, reused and recuperated materials, with zero net energy consumption and no waste generation during construction or decon-struction. They have an infinite life cycle and strictly comply with all recognised sustainable indicators.


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RECYCLOOP / 2007-2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

JAN JONGERT AND JEROEN BERGSMA / 2012ARCHITECTEN CLIENT

FESTIVAL A/D WERF, HANS VENHUIZEN, HET BLAUWE HUIS AND CBK DORDRECHT COLLABORATORS

PIETER SCHEER, JOHN BOSMA, DIRK OVERDUIN AND LOUISA VERMOERE

The Recycloop temporarily unites two waste flows, sinks and water, in a shiny structure. Sinks from demolished buildings are the walls of multifunctional space. The sinks can appear in different shapes and are easy to mount and dis-mount due to a skilful fastening system. When the sun shines Recycloop reflects light like a disco ball. On the inside, the sun shines through the holes, but when it rains the sinks give shelter. Rainwater is collected through the gray water circuit.


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SOLAR COOKER / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

DR. DIETER SEIFERT AND MANOLO VILCHEZ / ALSOL TECNOLOGÍAS SOLARES S.L.

Domestic solar cooker of pre-cut aluminium plates (structure) and high reflec-tion flexible aluminium mirrors for the parabolic concentrator. In flat box with all materials and visual guide, it’s easy to set up. The materials are of very high durability, ensuring a future of high value recycling. It cooks all kind of dishes without consuming fossil energy resources. Boils 1 litre of water in 8 minutes!

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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SOLIDARY ROUTE TO MAURITANIA / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

EDUARDO DEL FRAILE CLIENT

NGO AMAMI AND GENERAL DIRECTORATE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF MURCIA REGION COLLABORATORS

JUAN JIMENEZ AND ANTONIO MARQUEZ (DESIGN ASSISTANT) / EDUARDO DEL FRAILE (COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY) / GABRIEL PASAMONTES (BLACK&WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY) / ANA LEAL (TEX)

This book came about from a solidarity expedition to Mauritania, arranged to reuse medical material from different hospitals.

The creative proposal was to portray the current situation of Mauritania in parallel to the expedition itself. The result was a book to raise awareness and serve as a documentary reference for the purpose of the route, which later on would be used to raise economic funds for the NGO Amami, located in one of the poorest areas of Nouakchott, capital city of Mauritania.

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SOLTAG, ENERGY HOUSING / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

NIELSEN & RUBOW A/S, CENERGIA APS, KUBEN BYFORNYELSE DENMARK A/S AND VELUX A/S (DENMARK) / RUBOW ARCHITECTSCLIENT

EU “DEMOHOUSE”

Soltag Enery Housing is a system for houses which produces energy and healthy indoor living conditions without “polluting” its surroundings thanks to the in-stallation of solar thermal collectors in its roof, which allows the house to be self-sufficient in terms of energy.

It also uses high performance insulation materials, efficient ventilation systems and solar heating systems.


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RICICLANTICA / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

GABRIELE CENTAZZO / VALCUCINE

Valcucine’s research has created a method to give the door surface a feeling of organic deformation. Riciclantica, the first door in the world to be 2 mm thick, is distinguished by new shapes and volumes inspired by nature. It almost looks as if life is pulsating within the material of which the front is made. The use of special materials such as carbon, aluminium, steel, layered laminate and the novelty of glass (2008) also contributes to making the Riciclantica door unique in the furniture sector.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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SEAM CHAIR / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

CHRIS KABELCOLLABORATORS

DROOGDESIGN AND LANKHORST PURE COMPOSITES

This chair has been developed with the help of the Aerospace Material Research Department of the Technical University Delft and Lankhorst Indutech, the de-veloper of the Pure material. Pure is a 100% polypropylene (PP). A bag is sewed in the shape of a chair and filled with sand so that it gets its shape. After around an hour baking on 130°C (this is less than an apple pie!!!) the fibres are impreg-nated and fixed together. A hole lets the sand come out and what is left is an ultra light piece of furniture that does not need resin and glass or carbon fibres to create superlight (using little material) and super strong constructions that are 100% recyclable.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

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SHELL SCENARIOS POSTERS / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

PETER GRUNDY CLIENT

SHELL INTERNATIONAL LTD. COLLABORATORS

SHELL SCENARIOS TEAM

Peter Grundy has designed three generations of publications with three respec-tive MDs. Scenarios are tools that help people understand how the future may affect the present. As part of Shell Energy Scenarios 2008, the author has de-signed two presentations (posters).

Poster 1 shows a set of visual tools called anchors used in Power Point shows to highlight the main energy topics.

Poster 2 depicts the various global components of the message.


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SUPERUSE.ORG / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

JAN JONGERT, CÉSARE PEEREN AND JEROEN BERGSMA / 2012ARCHITECTENCOLLABORATORS

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Superuse.org is an online community of designers, architects and anyone inter-ested in inventive ways of recycling. The site allows anybody to post items of various scales within a variety of reuse categories. All examples of products, furniture, interiors, buildings and reuse on a urban scale are welcome. As well as exhibiting applications, the website promotes the development of knowledge on the subject by promoting discussion, user interaction and comment.


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SUSTAINABLE BY DESIGN: EXPLORATIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

STUART WALKER / EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD. / JAMES & JAMES SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS CLIENT


To advance the subject of design one has to engage in the activity of design-ing. This book offers an innovative, design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. The author explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and the relationship between intellectual design criteria, physical expression and aes-thetic experience.

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SUSTAINABLE FASHION AND TEXTILES: DESIGN JOURNEYS / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

KATE FLETCHER / EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD. CLIENT


This book brings together for the first time information about lifecycle sustain-ability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. It challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainability issues in fashion and textiles, and sets out a more pluralistic, engaging and forward-looking picture, drawing on ideas of systems thinking, human needs, local products, slow fashion and participatory design, as well as knowledge of materials.

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SPUD RAINCOAT / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

MAITE CANTÓN AND MARIANO SANZ / EQUILICUÁCOLLABORATORS

GOODFORE S.L.

This raincoat is made entirely using bioplastic derived from potato starch and other natural resources, resulting in a 100% biodegradable and compostable product. This implies that at the end of its life cycle it returns entirely to the bio-sphere, transformed into organic matter and thus, closing the loop. To reinforce this concept, every raincoat contains a small clay ball with seeds in it. As such, the users know that they have to plant the raincoat when it becomes useless. This way it won’t only return to a natural cycle, but will also help to cultivate the seeds inside.

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STARS / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

STUDIO VOLLAERSZWART CLIENT

CITY OF ROTTERDAM

Stars is a light sculpture by studio Vollaerszwart. It sparkles on the Rotterdam skyline. In the city the stars are barely ever visible. Stars is an artificial starry sky, visible every night. The Delftse Poort, the Nationale Nederlanden offices build-ing, has been dressed with thousands of LED-lights, across a total length of 150 metres. These lights have been placed on the building’s facade at random, thus creating a natural pattern.

This monumental light sculpture functions completely without electricity. The durable LED-lights use solar cells to charge themselves during the day, and remain lit for eight hours during the night. They blink at four different frequencies.


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SUPERUSE THE BOOK / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

JAN JONGERT AND CÉSARE PEEREN / 2012ARCHITECTENCLIENT

010 PUBLISHERSCOLLABORATORS

ED VAN HINTE

Superuse is a practical and inspiring book about constructing new buildings with surplus materials. It presents ideas for tools and methods for architects such as the harvest map. The book is illustrated with 15 clearly and concisely pre-sented examples from 2012Architecten in the Netherlands and elsewhere. It also considers the subject from the ecological and methodological points of view.

Superuse.org is the accompanying online community about reuse and design.

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NEWLY DESIGNED WOOD FLOORING / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

FERNANDO SUBIRATS / DURA TARIMAS FLOTANTES, S.L.

In Dura warehouse, pre-cut wood sheets which have not passed the quality pa-rameters are stacked. After assessing the material and mixing the different lay-ers, the edge shows a new product: balanced and symmetrical boards for wood flooring. The 100 pallets stored and rejected can now produce over 25,000 m2 of wood flooring of various models.

The wood so far kept in factories, may finally have a new use.

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THE B&W HOUSE (THE BLACK & WHITE HOUSE) / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

JOSEP ADELL - TEAM SPAIN / POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF MADRIDCOLLABORATORS

AIA ARQUITECTURA S.XXI

The Black & White House (55 m2) is a prototype clad with photovoltaic mod-ules to maximise the energy capture surface area.

A key concept for this housing is its portability and easy assembly anywhere.On the other hand, the self-orientating solar roof captures the maximum energy offered by the Sun, providing 10.3% extra energy compared with a static south facing roof.


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TOT HOUSE / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

FERNANDO OÍZA, MICHEL ARAUZO AND ENRIQUE KAHLE / KAHLE OÍZA ARAUZO ARQUITECTURA, S.L.CLIENT

IBÓN LABORDE AND BELÉN AYALACOLLABORATORS

MARÍA AMEZCUA (FINANCIAL CONTROL AND EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION DEPARTMENT) / DANIEL LARRALDE (PROJECT DEVELOPMENT) / FS ESTRUCTURAS, JORGE GARCÍA (INSTALA-TIONS) / CONTRUCCIONES EGARFE (CONTRACTORS)

Tot House originated in the design of economical housing for a middle class family in the Cintruenigo’s urban periphery, a small town in inland Spain with one of the major indexes of sun hours per year. Despite it being a usual standard concerning type, plan and dimensions, the authors tried to avoid common cli-chés by considering the different functional, typological and technological pos-sibilities currently on offer based on sustainable construction criteria.


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TABLE BOARD / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

SONIA SIMON MATEO / U_ MÖBELCOLLABORATORS

MARKUS LASSAN / IGNACIO BISBAL (PHOTOGRAPHER)

The project Table Board derives out of the interest in using and recycling timber. Knots, cracks, stains, defects of wood that make them not usable, represent the main objective of the project.

Traditional methods of craftsmanship are used when carving each piece to ap-ply the finishes. The methods and techniques used such as gilding, engraving or tempera over gilding, intend to recover the tradition of Arts and Crafts.

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TABLE TELEPHONE BOOTH / 2007AUTHOR / COMPANY

GÜNTHER SPATZ / RE-INDESIGN

In 1976 new telephone booths made of Aluminium started to be installed in Austria, been out in the weather in cities and urban areas for about 30 years.

The designer recovers this first-class material from the scrap to develop new products, thus connecting the now and then. At present the old telephone booths have reincarnated into tables, available with drawers, in various heights and colours.


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TAMAGO / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

INDRA MERCA AND JANIS MERCS / MERCIDESIGN CLIENT

MERCIDESIGN

Tamago invites to give the “first steps forward with letters and numbers”. With this multi-function, 100% recycled, children’s piece of furniture, the little ones can shape their environment, building up literacy and numeracy through crea-tive play.

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TYPO CHAIR / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY


The abstract typographic Typo Chair is made from re-used billboards of Finnish Birch multiplex. It is impressive through its graphic presence and is well formed and comfortable. The Typo Chair is a real eye catcher for any space. Because each board is printed differently each chair has a unique typographic design.

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VILLA UH1 / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

RB ARKITEKTUR CLIENT

UNIKA HEM SKANDINAVIEN

Villa Uh1 grows out of the surrounding slope and interacts with the landscape eliminating the border between building and landscape. The idea was to mini-mize the impact of the construction while at the same time creating a new ty-pology. While designing the house the authors decided to create a patio so that questions of privacy and full access to the evening sun would easily be solved. The sedum roof drains rain water and provides good thermal insulation to the house which uses geothermal heating.


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VITRO HOUSE / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

LUIS DE GARRIDOCLIENT


The main objective of Vitrohouse is to demonstrate that real sustainable archi-tecture should be made only by means of dry-assembled components. This will optimize the best use of resources, reduce waste to the maximum (or remove it completely), and decrease, also to the maximum, the energy consumed in its construction. At the same time, buildings may considerably extend their life cycle, since their components can be easily disassembled, repaired and reused as many times as one likes. In fact, Vitrohouse has an infinite life cycle.


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TRÄD / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

VICENTE PORRES AND JOSUÉ GAMONAL / NOVIEMBRE ESTUDIO

Träd is not only a storage system, Träd is a shelter, a personal space where the children can carry out their fantasies and games. A place that allows them to feel safe, to learn and to imagine. That enchanted wood where one can dream of heroes and princesses...and live a thousand and one adventures.

The tree as an icon of wisdom, shelter and playground. Symbol of life and growth. Approach to an increasingly absent nature, as a comeback to traditional games towards imagination development, with no artifices, as a basis for the growth of the child’s personal world.

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TRASH? / 2006AUTHOR / COMPANY

VICENTE PORRES AND JOSUÉ GAMONAL / NOVIEMBRE ESTUDIO

How much trash do humans throw away every day? Is trash really all we throw away? What if we could extend the life cycle of the objects we use in our dairy life? With Trash? the authors want people to think about the life of the objects, telling them that this cycle could be longer in a society that generates more and more garbage everyday.

Trash? is a garbage bag that can be used as a puff. It can be used indoors or outdoors, just fill it up with garbage and enjoy the seat.

Buy, enjoy, throw away and buy again seems to be all that modern society does. With Trash? one buys, enjoys, enjoys again and, to end the cycle, recycles the bag.

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TUEJAR ARMCHAIR / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

MARIO PEDRET / ESTUDIO VERDEMALAQUITA

The Tuejar armchair is constructed from salvaged wood pallets and it has been designed ergonomically to achieve maximum comfort and practicality.

It is made by carpenters in a semi-industrial process, assembled individually. Furthermore, the imperfect form of the wood pallets gives the chair a unique finish and adds character. It is a new product that does not exploit natural re-sources, more specifically finite wood resources, providing functionality while being environmentally responsible.

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ZEYRON TECHNOLOGIES, PIONEERS IN DOMOTICS OF WATER / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

ZEYRON TECHNOLOGIES

Zeyron Technologies provides the solution for the control and management of water and energy resources in buildings. Environmentally aware and specialized in electronic engineering applied to energy efficiency, the authors have developed two innovative technologies for controlling the water in flow-rate, temperature and consumption. This is an example of how design and technology can join together for maximum comfort, energy saving and health control because of controlled cleansing against legionella.


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ZEYRON THERMO / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

ZEYRON TECHNOLOGIES AND PUIGFALCÓ / ZEYRON TECHNOLOGIES

Zeyron Thermo is laying the foundations for the bathroom of the future by replacing the thermostatic tap.

The full-colour, 3.5”, touch-sensitive screen is intuitively interactive. Its technology guarantees perfect, immediate, precise, continuous control of all

water variables: flow-rate, temperature and consumption. It also enables adjust-ment of another 2 variables, i.e., lighting or ambiance. The product coherently combines Image, comfort, safety and energy efficiency.

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ZICLA. INNOVATION IN RECYCLING WASTE: NEW MATERIALS-NEW PRODUCTS FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDING / 2005AUTHOR / COMPANY

VERÓNICA KUCHINOW AND ALFREDO BALMACEDA / ZICLA

Zicla is a company specialized in recycled products and in waste valorisation where innovation and commercial viability are the basis of all their activity.

Zicla’s project consists of transforming what one throws into new products technically and economically viable with an important environmental added value. Their proposals try to make quality products out of waste, with new processes where the differential fact in using waste materials makes attractive products with a very high environmental message.


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WHOLE SYSTEM DESIGN. AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

PETER STASINOPOULOS, MICHAEL H. SMITH, KARLSON “CHARLIE” HARGROVES AND CHERYL DESHA / EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD.CLIENT

EARTHSCAN PUBLICATIONS LTD.COLLABORATORS

THE NATURAL EDGE PROJECT, THE WORLD FEDERATION OF ENGINEERING ORGANIZATIONS, UNESCO AND THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

Whole System Design provides a clear design methodology, supported by worked examples that demonstrate how advances in energy, materials and wa-ter productivity can be achieved through applying an integrated approach to sustainable engineering.

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X DAYS PROJECT / 2008AUTHOR / COMPANY

OSCAR LHERMITTE

The concept of this project is to turn free daily newspapers into a sustainable product, designed by the consumer. The proposal is to make one’s own piece of furniture by collecting day by day these free papers. The “334” bench and “89” stool are made of 3 parallel bars of metal and many newspapers folded and stacked next to each other.

The challenge of this series is to recycle a product, but also to design furniture without using any screw, glue, soldering, etc. Making this furniture costs around 5 pounds, and some spare time.

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ZECOCHAIR / 2009AUTHOR / COMPANY

JOAN NADAL / ZECODESIGN

The Zeco Chair is routed out of one sheet of 1x1 metres Medite Ecologique (MDF panel with Zero added Formalde). The excess wood is its own packaging and the chair can be easily assembled by the consumer using a mallet. No glues, screws, or fixings are needed.

When an order is placed it is manufactured to order, obviating the need for a big warehouse, extra transportation or excessive packaging. This system allows a wide range of sizes with a variety of finishes.

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LAUREANA ARQUITECTURAwww.laureana.esSPAIN

LUCA LANCINIwww.lucalancini.comSPAIN

LUCÍA ARRANZ AND MIGUEL ORDÓÑ[email protected] / [email protected]

LUIS DE GARRIDOwww.luisdegarrido.com / [email protected]

MANGADO Y ASOCIADOS, S.l.www.fmangado.comSPAIN

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RB ARKITEKTURwww.rbarkitektur.se / [email protected]

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U_ MÖ[email protected]

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AITEXwww.madeingreen.com/ [email protected]

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