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- Resource Hogs: Greening Prison Infrastructure
[Wasco State Prison, California via California Department of Corrections:www.cdcr.ca.gov]
Prisons are perhaps the most resource-intensive institutional infrastructures. This is largely a function of the unique nature of the building typology, which requires continuous operation, high levels of lighting (for security) and water consumption (for the inmates). Moreover, prison cells that contain toilet fixtures are [...]
- From Ego to Energy – Towers of Power Revisited
[EnviroMission\'s Proposal for a Solar Tower in Australia via www.t-mation.com]
As the race for the tallest tower progresses, research into solar power design has created (perhaps for the first time) a need for height. The solar updraft tower – a combination of a solar chimney, greenhouse and wind turbine – was first presented in 1903 [...]
- fuel talk20
talk20 toronto – FUEL
Maya and Mason are participating in talk20 toronto (edition #3) which is based around the release of the Alphabet City publication (no.13) titled FUEL, available now in bookstores. It happens tomorrow (Friday, November 28).
It takes place at University of Toronto, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at 230 College St starting [...]
- [bracket] Call for Entries On Farming
InfraNet is pleased to announce a new publication venture in collaboration with Archinect, and with support from the Graham Foundation.
[bracket]
www.brkt.org
[bracket] is an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet. It is [...]
- testing…1 2 3
InfraNet Lab is born. Preoccupied with the scaffolds of our environment, we have initiated this research collective and blog to chart the growing impact of infrastructures and networks (visible and invisible) on architecture, landscape, and urbanism. InfraNet Lab is a reformatting of the Participatory Urbanisms and Productive Landscapes blog.
