When I first received that invitation I was quite curious: Saint-Gobain Solar – the main French corporate in the business – has rebuilt an old church’s roof with solar tiles. What? I had to go there and see it myself. I knew that some companies were selling solar tiles, but I never saw any on an actual building and on [...]

I love concrete, it runs in my family for 3 generations now (maybe it will be over after me though, who knows). So when I see a building with walls made of pure concrete, I am usually interested. Well the building that I will talk about today is more than a “building made of  concrete”. The EDF’s (Electricity of France) archives [...]

I was talking the other day about researches which aimed to create building with skin-like walls. Well today I will talk about a “spider web” – a flexible mesh actually – which could envelop aircrafts and a tone of other facilities/machines. This is pretty simple: some researchers from Standford designed a skin – inspired by spiders’ webs – that could be [...]

When I first discovered this model, few months ago, I instantly thought it was amazing. This house, created by a German architect, Rolph Disch, is a real concept, it has been constructed. It can produce around 5 times more electricity than it actually produces. It has a huge 54 m² solar panel -on its roof – which can produce around 6,6 kWh. But [...]

M. and I really like to talk about Haussman and Napoléon. I’m quite sure everyone knows Napoléon, but Georges Eugène Haussman is not that famous – especially out of France. Georges Eugène Haussman was born in 1809, He has been prefect of  Seine – of Paris – in 1853, during Napoléon III’s reign, the French ruler of that time – who re-established [...]

Here in France, We just got what We called the “Grenelle 2″ and the RT2012 (Technical Rules for construction 2012) which determined what would be next in France’s laws about the way We will have to build. Basically, it positioned the Low consumption building (“BBC” in in French) as the new norm. It only applies to new buildings. Every new building has [...]

We usually think that human’s creations are destroying our environment and our planet. This is mostly true, but some walls prove us that it’s not always the case. A Spanish corporate - Ceracasa - specialized in ceramic materials, has created a new product – Bionictile – which is able to stuck the pollution out of the air. According to Ceracasa, “200 buildings per year [with [...]