Future of Industrial Infrastructure: Student Housing?
Grünerløkka Studenthus is a repurposed industrial grain silo that became a 226-unit student housing complex in Oslo, Norway.Continue Reading
Adaptive Reuse and Repurposing Urban Objects for New Use
44 international urban repurposing projects showing how existing urban infrastructure, surfaces and systems can be reused and adapted for new use.Continue Reading
Micro Park Created on a Hong Kong Stairway
The Cascade is a mini urban park designed to be installed on top of an existing stairway, offering shoppers and businesspeople a moment of rest and relaxation.Continue Reading
Transforming a Billboard to Provide Clean Drinking Water
The UTEC Water Billboard is a repurposed billboard in Lima, Peru, that generates clean drinking water from the air, using a humidity collection system.Continue Reading
Future Food Source? Repurposed Bridge Provides Food and Energy
An algae growing system was installed on a Geneva highway bridge, turning part of the city’s grey infrastructure into an air-cleaning platform for future urban food and fuel.Continue Reading
Repurposed Buses Become Mobile Hygiene Stations
Lava Mae has converted city buses into mobile shower and sanitation units for the homeless. The new use for city buses allow the organization to bring services directly to urban areas with high concentrations of homeless people.Continue Reading
Converting Phone Booths into EV Charging Stations
As part of a “Green Innovation” initiative, Telekom Austria’s A1 division has been replacing underused phone booths with EV Charging Stations.Continue Reading
Using Sidewalks to Mitigate Climate Change
Third Nature’s Climate Tile system makes sidewalks an active participant in battling climate change by harnessing and handling rainwater more efficiently, easing problems with urban flooding during severe weather, and using the water to benefit urban nature at all other times.Continue Reading
Turning Parking Meters Into Urban Communication Systems
City Tickets harnesses the full potential of parking meters, turning them into two-way communication systems between the city and citizen.Continue Reading
Future Food Production Centers: Traffic Roundabouts
Belatchew Arkitekter calculates that by repurposing nine specific roundabouts throughout the city into insect farms and insect-based food production complexes known as “Buzzbuildings,” Stockholm could become a pioneer in the global quest for future urban food solutions.Continue Reading