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a landscape architecture student's musings on sustainability, design, the built environment, urban living, and green space.

Permalink unconsumption: Public Trash Cans That Aren’t Overflowing with Empty Coffee Cups - Design - The Atlantic Cities: Copenhagen designer So Hoj noticed, and was bothered by, piles of spent coffee cups spilling out of trash cans and onto the sidewalk around the city.  Hoj, a self-employed designer with a background in accessories, took up the problem herself by converting tall, slender cardboard tubes from the post office into receptacles for discarded cups. The idea is simple enough: you can hold more cups in a smaller space when they’re stacked neatly inside each other. Hoj’s theory was that this would alleviate the cup problem by giving them their own, more compact space, and leaving larger trash cans for other items. … She mounted her “test tube” cup collectors and put them on two trash cans along the waterfront. Quickly, her fellow Copenhageners caught on. Here’s what the trash cans used to look like before her solution:
Permalink foxmouth: 中潭路 by Yves Andre
Permalink ninaprettyballerina: Rooftop Fish Farm Ups the Ante for Urban Agriculture “The prototype Globe/Hedron ‘is a bamboo greenhouse designed to organically grow fish and vegetables on top of generic flat roofs. The design is optimized for aquaponic farming techniques: the fish’s water nourishes the plants and plants clean the water for the fish,’”. image: Antonio Scarponi/Conceptual Devices
Permalink unconsumption: Public Trash Cans That Aren’t Overflowing with Empty Coffee Cups - Design - The Atlantic Cities: Copenhagen designer So Hoj noticed, and was bothered by, piles of spent coffee cups spilling out of trash cans and onto the sidewalk around the city.  Hoj, a self-employed designer with a background in accessories, took up the problem herself by converting tall, slender cardboard tubes from the post office into receptacles for discarded cups. The idea is simple enough: you can hold more cups in a smaller space when they’re stacked neatly inside each other. Hoj’s theory was that this would alleviate the cup problem by giving them their own, more compact space, and leaving larger trash cans for other items. … She mounted her “test tube” cup collectors and put them on two trash cans along the waterfront. Quickly, her fellow Copenhageners caught on. Here’s what the the trash cans used to look before her solution:
Permalink redhousecanada: sadburro: From the Houses series, by LW, 1979
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Permalink wonderbecky: define-space: i really admire the design for these stairs and how they incorporate a wheelchair access ramp. in a world where barrier free design is essential to living a full and happy life, its amazing to see landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander has taken literal steps to design stairs AROUND a ramp, instead of the other way around. unnghh accessible architecture gets me so hot
Permalink mixgreen: green tea
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