Autonomous House
Robert Vale, together with his wife Brenda, a Professor of Architecture in New Zealand, built the first autonomous house in England a few years ago...
Cities are Feeding Themselves
Cities have started to feed themselves. In every major city throughout the world, there is evidence of these urban communities beginning to provide food for themselves...
Cohousing
The Cohousing movement offers a great model for the residential aspects of eco-village design, where the community is actively involved in the design and development of their living environment...
Natural Cooling
Francisco Santana lives in the centre of Havana, the capital city of Cuba. His apartment is on the second floor of a house. His terrace is the rooftop of his neighbour’s house. One summer, his children were having trouble sleeping because of the heat...
Model Housing Code - New South Wales Australia
The NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP) has prepared a model housing code. Focusing on medium-rise and multi-unit housing, this guide explains eight key design elements in an easy-to-follow format...
Roof Top Gardening
In urban areas the idea of a vegetable garden may seem an impossibility. However, it is possible to grow surprisingly large quantities of food on balconies, window boxes and roof tops. There are many roof tops which are suitable for gardening...
Food From Small Spaces
An area of about 250sq metres is required to supply the total vegetable requirements of a family. This is less than the average suburban backyard, and you would have some room for some fruit trees, too...
Sydney Eco-House
The changes they have made means that more than 100,000 litres of water can stay in the rivers, 60,000 litres of sewerage does not flow to the treatment plant, 4.3 tons of coal are saved and 8.3 tons of carbon dioxide does not pollute the Sydney air...
Urban Alternatives
If the population of a region is weighted too far towards small villages, modern civilization can never emerge; but if the population is weighted too far towards big cities, the earth will go to ruin because the population isn’t where it needs to be, to take care of it...
Waste and Want
Amsterdam is one of the most eco-aware capitals in the world. Dinyar Godrej compares it with his Indian hometown of Indore...
Whitmore Square EcoCity Project - Adelaide
The buildings will demonstrate a number of construction systems and climate responsive architecture for north-south and east-west orientated buildings in a compact, medium-high density urban infill context...