UAE-based smart and green facilities management company Farnek has launched a new state-of-the-art online remote digital platform called PowerTek, which was developed by in-house experts, at Farnek’s innovative digital solutions, sister company HITEK.
Among the many other problems that climate change poses, an increase in the number of pests plaguing urban areas is predicted to be one of the most obvious and impactful on quality of life. According to Voice of America News, pest outbreaks are at the highest they’ve ever been, beating a previous high thirty years ago.
Written by
Jennifer Dawson
Photography
Milica Spasojevic
The impacts of climate change are being experienced across the globe in a variety of ways. In Australia, for example, architects have been working tirelessly to design modern homes that are better equipped to withstand the threat of bushfires.
Climate change is the biggest challenge to face our planet in the modern age, but how will it affect homeowners?
Photography
Maxwell MacKenzie (Riggins House by Robert M. Gurney Architect)
Abu Dhabi is making significant progress in implementing its various policies and initiatives to build resilience and prepare the emirate to confront the impacts of climate change.
Photography
Kamil Rogalinski
Energy use is becoming an increasingly pertinent issue for the world around us. And while the recent work-from-home revolution has brought with it a lot of benefits, some might overlook the environmental costs. There was as much as an 8.9% rise in domestic energy consumption in the first quarter of 2021 alone, as a direct result of these new workin...
Photography
Soroush Majidi (cover image)
W-LAB evaluates how people could survive in a possible post-climate change age scenario, gathering existing technologies and current bioconstruction solutions to shape a futuristic low-environmental impact habitat for a desert climate.
Project name
Self-sufficient biocabins for the post-climate change age
Architecture firm
Wild Design Studio Lab (W-LAB)
Location
Future post climate change deserted area
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, V-ray, SimScale, Ladybug Tools
Typology
Residential › Cabin House
Anthony Authié, founder of Zyva studio and Charlottz Taylor, founder of Maison de Sable presents their second collaboration, « Neo-Chemosphere », a dreamlike project homage to John Lautner who design in 1960 a crazy alien spaceship house in Los Angeles.
Project name
Neo-Chemosphere
Architecture firm
Zyva studio, Maison de Sable
Location
Massif des Calanques, Marseille, France
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max , V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Anthony Authié, Charlottz Taylor
Design team
Anthony Authié, Charlottz Taylor
Visualization
Zyva studio, Maison de Sable
Typology
Residential › House
