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Design Strategies That Control Indoor Climate Without Over-Reliance on HVAC

The Architecture Designs

Even slight rotations in building orientation can reduce cooling costs by 20-30%. Thermal zoning further enhances efficiency by placing frequently used spaces in warmer, sunlit areas while keeping storage and garages in cooler sections. Innovative airflow techniques refine these principles.

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Weitblick Innovation Campus // Sehw Architektur

Architizer

Building volume and location The building providing modern working environments is the first component of the emerging innovation park in Augsburg, a place bringing together the worlds of work and research. The catering facility on the ground floor will become a popular meeting place in the southern part of the innovation park.

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Sustainable Architecture: How Green Building Practices are Reshaping the Industry

DesignRulz

Green building approaches often promote placing construction projects in areas with minimal environmental imprint while considering the occupants’ public transportation proximity, green space accessibility, and staying away from sensitive ecological zones.

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Back to Basics: Bioclimatic Design, Learning from History to Build For The Future

Architizer

The innovative vertical garden building merges nature with urban living, using passive strategies like cross ventilation, large sun-shielding terraces, fractured light parasols and rainwater harvesting for self-sustaining irrigation. Weitblick Innovation Campus by Sehw Architektur , Augsburg, Germany.

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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

BD+C

For example, as hotels look to curating elegant spaces for guests, opportunities arise for energy savings in guest bedrooms using smart building controls. There is an increasing opportunity to create systems that allow a guest’s smart device or room key to help regulate temperatures for energy savings.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

This article aims to highlight some of the world’s most innovative minds, and celebrate their success in an evergreen format that can inspire the AEC community year-round. The London-based studio empowers industry and institutions with innovative design solutions and R&D for an impactful transition towards sustainable futures.

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes dune-like Beeah Headquarters in Sharjah

Deezen

It is powered by a solar array and meets LEED Platinum standards – the highest certification awarded by the green building certification program – setting "a new benchmark for future workplaces". Inside, the building is divided into two wings. Its sinuous form is intended to evoke sand dunes.

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