A public institution in the periphery

As cities keep growing, peripheral areas are prone to becoming a playground for rapid developments. City governments seem to use it as a cupboard space for the storage of buildings and structures which they need, but do not want in the city-centre. In the process existing fabric is destroyed to be replaced by new alien structures.Therefore this...

Re-connecting with water: Creating spatial solutions for water collection and storage in rural areas of Morocco which suffer from water scarcity and loss of social and environmental cohesion

It is widely known that by 2050 the average temperature is going to increase by 2-3 °C while the precipitation is going to decrease 10-20 % in the North African region. The countries in this area have always been experiencing drought periods but due to the climatic changes, but, these periods are becoming more extreme leaving the population...

Reusable 3D Printed Concrete Slab: An approach towards the optimisation of the usage of concrete in the built environment

Concrete consumption is one of the major environmental issues of our time. This building material is used twice as much as all the other building materials combined. Furthermore, the United Nations predicts that human global population will reach 10 billion inhabitants by 2050. Correspondingly, it is projected that due to global migration from...