In Columbia, a pair of architects are re-thinking the way we use materials for helping to curb energy use naturally. The two used the bricks to recreate a new shape that offers acoustic insulation as well as a unique beauty to any building or home’s exterior.
They were recently featured in Fast Company Magazine. Here is a snippet and a link:
Via FastCompany
When Colombian architects Miguel Niño and Johanna Navarro set out to re-engineer the brick, they did so through the lens of sustainability. They wanted to create a mass producible, high-performance material that could be used to build better homes in their country.
Enter Bloque Termodisipador BT from Niño and Navarro’s company Sumart Diseño y Arquitectura SAS. The ceramic bricks naturally regulate temperature, decrease the need for additional building materials (like insulation and finishes), slash construction time, and support existing supply chains, the architects say. The genius lies in the bricks’ irregular shape and semi-hollow core.
I’ve blogged in the past about the incredible smog problem faced by many major cities around the world. There have been many innovative ideas over the years to clean up our air, but this one caught my eye for its unique solutions. There are towers being built that act as giant vacuum cleaners by sucking…
We know that green and clean technology and the “Click Stream Customer” are two of many trends that will impact the way we do business in the future. Trend watching has become a business in itself. Futurist James Canton is one of many business futurists who make a living by interpreting the signs of what…
I hope you can attend the 13th Annual Co-Development and Open Innovation Congress, CoDev2014: Connected for Growth, on January 27 – 29, 2014 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Find out how companies are dealing with the latest trends in Open Innovation! Open Innovation is no longer a separate process as it is being integrated into standard business…
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Do you have a mix of introverts and extroverts in your company? Here’s an article that suggests maybe it’s not introverts that need to change the way they fit into an organization, but the organization that needs to change how it treats introverts. What do you think? Post by InnovationEdge.
