Two Simple Cubes House on Oregon

The house is located in Central Oregon by the trees in the vicinity. Site area 10 hectares, comprising from two simple cubes, one for the bedroom and another for everyday activities. The box for the bedroom and into a low position in the earth, while the box for everyday activities floating on top, hovering at [...]

Tags: Central Oregon, Engineering, Environment, Heating, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Humidity, Ice, Physics, Solar water heating, Thermodynamics, Water heating

The Ice Hotel, de Glace, in Canada

Hotel de Glace is the first ice hotel in North America. the located is near Quebec City, Canada. The hotel is the tourist destination, and  is backed by Quebec’s tourism department.  The hotel was built about a month and a half to build with 60 workers. The hotel makes its own snow using a special [...]

Tags: Atmospheric thermodynamics, Canada, Hotel, Hotel de Glace, Humidity, Ice, Ice Hotel, Kiruna, North America, Psychrometrics, Québec, Quebec City

The Andres Remy Arquitecto’s Orchid House in Argentina

The design concept of this house came from the owner’s house hobby, growing orchids. This Orchid house design has three parts of the orchid: the roots, the stem and the flower. This is the challenging architecture project for Andreas Remy from the client, the young couple with two sons, after they consult to several architects. [...]

Tags: Andreas Remy, Building biology, energy, Environment, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Humidity, paint, Psychrometrics, Sustainable building, Ventilation