Living in an urban environment has a major problem in general. The lack of green places surrounding the flats in big cities. The Dancing Apartment designed by Unsangdong Architects, is a radical structure that promises to bring nature in the urban environment.

It is located in South Korea, the modern structure is capable of fulfilling the needs different groups of people within the apartment. it has parks, leisure facilities, event spaces, a library, media space and performance space. An unique characteristic is that the apartments are constructed using oblique lines with each unit boasting a terrace.

It is something amazing to live in a high building and have your own trees next to your door. Definetly one of the best designs I have ever seen.

I would like to drink a coffee in the morning under a tree in my 20th floor flat.

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In the near future, some parts of Beijing city center will look like a deep forest rather than a crowded metropolis because an international architecture competition decided on a new environmentally change to the city.

After the Olympics, the pavements will look like a forest floor from permeable materials, solar panels will generate electricity and water will be reused.

Part of the design will be some quality parks, plazas and gardens to be reintroduced into an area that is mainly built from concrete.

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Called ‘Sensory Lamp’ and designed by Sara Rossbach this mouse pad - lamp wants to create a closer connection between our work environments with nature for better workdays.

By slowly modifieing the color and intensity throughout the day the lamp mimics natural light cycles and with the grass that grows from the base of the lamp will create a friendly working environment.

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The mobile home concept by Tom Kundig is named Rolling Huts and is several steps above camping but remains low-tech and low-impact on the environment.
Each house is constructed from a 200 square-foot steel clad box that sits on a steel and wood platform that extends the structure with 240 square feet of covered deck space.

You can enter the hut through a double-paned sliding glass door. The interiors are outfitted in cork and plywood and the exterior of the huts are finished with materials such as steel and plywood.

The huts are grouped as a herd: while each is sited towards the mountains their proximity unites them.

This homes can be used in sensitive areas that don’t allow permanent homes, that’s why the huts are raised a short distance off the ground. Also thy have wheels to be moved.

I really like this idea of mobile home that can be moved from place to place in order to have different views of the landscape.

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People are starting for looking unconventional resources as potential building materials. The company Japan Dome House Co., Ltd. has created an “easy to assemble” modular home building kit that uses Styrofoam as a basic material. It creates an igloo-shaped home.

Made of 100% expanded polystyrene foam, the Dome House can be called the habitat for the 21st century thanks to its numerous advantages.

The Dome House is rot-proof, water-proof and termite-proof, thermal insulated and also resistant to earthquakes and typhoons.

What is more interesting is that is possible to construct larger, elongated domes by adding more pieces to be connected into a single structure.

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