Circular Mobile Architecture
|
|
|
|
Introducing CiMiB
What if you could build a meeting space anywhere in the world, no special building permits required?
We all know examples of mobile industrial building in the form of tents, stages and other festival infrastructure. Since festivals usually last no longer than a few days, everything has to be easy and fast and safe to set up and take down again. Easy assembly and disassembly is also an earmark of circular building. The logical question that follows: can we design mobile circular constructions that can be part of the sustainable lifestyle of the future?
We all know examples of mobile industrial building in the form of tents, stages and other festival infrastructure. Since festivals usually last no longer than a few days, everything has to be easy and fast and safe to set up and take down again. Easy assembly and disassembly is also an earmark of circular building. The logical question that follows: can we design mobile circular constructions that can be part of the sustainable lifestyle of the future?
|
|
How to quickly assemble and move pavilions and cabins made of recuperated materials? Our foundation has partnered with suppliers of festivals such as Tomorrowland and selected a wide range of recuperated materials that can be used in easy to set up modules: anything from scaffolding wood, recuperated windows and doors, but also artistic wood and tilework can be used to build these comfortable meeting spaces.
|
|
The frame that carries the modular wall panels can be made in recycled aluminum or wood, so that the basic structure is very light and can be set up in 2 days!
Per side of the octagon 5 modules make up one wall of 5 meters.
On top of the frame or on a supporting construction (recuperated) solar panels can be installed.
Extra heating can be provided in the form of a rocket stove and/or infrared heating.
Per side of the octagon 5 modules make up one wall of 5 meters.
On top of the frame or on a supporting construction (recuperated) solar panels can be installed.
Extra heating can be provided in the form of a rocket stove and/or infrared heating.
|
|
TEALcenter: the versatile community center
TEALcenters were developed to host a variety of innovative and social activities, including, but not limited to:
- co-working
- co-learning
- fab lab-projects; 3D-printing, repair shops
- library of things
- preventive health care, including yoga and massage
- juice bar
- cultural exchange activities with various performance possibilities
Add a greenhouse 'for natural learning'
Warm in winter, a wonderful learning environment during the rest of the year. Made with Love Projects and its partners build educational greenhouses made with 100 % recuperated materials from old industrial greenhouses. Not only plants can be cultivated there, also beautiful minds, connected to nature. Spaces of 60 to 120 m2 (and more) provide learning environments for anything, including art classes, biology classes, or just about any other class. Using natural light re-connects everyone to the natural time cycles.
Quick and easy to set up in just a day by our team: the educational greenhouse, built with 100% recuperated components. Or just buy it in DIY-kit form. For more information, mail us.
Placement on roofs and in abandoned factory halls
Because of the light weight of the mobile TEALcenters, they can easily be placed on top of existing buildings or in transition places, e.g. abandoned factory halls where new initiatives can pop up thanks to the eco-innovative and social activities, such as fab labs, repair shops, co- working and various training activities.
Towards circular eco-communities in remote areas
Once you have central constructions that provide various services such as meeting space, dining area, room for co-learning and co-working, extra services such as a library of things, laundry, wellness etc. you can add private living spaces around them in the form of tiny eco-homes, mobile and/or on wheels. An entire eco-community can be set up in a few weeks.
Some examples of mobile eco-homes, made of natural and circular materials:
Some examples of mobile eco-homes, made of natural and circular materials:
Design bamboo-pods: Be Bamboo
These bamboo-octagons measure 40 m2 and are eay to build and move thanks to the circular and modular approach, using recuperated wood and bamboo. Designs on wheels
|
|
Where to build this in a country that has less space in nature?
Building directives encourage concentration of houses in cities. But what about people who need to live more connected to nature? More than 440,000 people are fighting a chronic disease because they can not deal with the rat race. Everyone is alienated from nature, from other human beings and from one self, with mounting stress as a result.
Prices for houses are skyrocketing and obliging people to take up expensive mortgages. And then there's the problem of climate change, partly caused by the methane produced by belching cows. How to solve all these issues with one solution?
Prices for houses are skyrocketing and obliging people to take up expensive mortgages. And then there's the problem of climate change, partly caused by the methane produced by belching cows. How to solve all these issues with one solution?
Towards innovative agriculture zones and centers for preventive health care
Today many agriculture zones are not used for agriculture, but for residential living by those who can afford to renovate a farm. The fields are no longer used to grow quality food but turned into lawns. And then there are the many fields that are used for animal food, mostly corn. But the belching cows produce methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, and together with other animals such as pigs far too many nitrates of their manure are formed that end up in the water supply. The United Nations recommends less consumption of animal products to save the world from the wordt impacts of climate change. (source).
A simple adaptation in zoning practices can make a big difference. On a per project basis local governments can give the green light to initiatives for building integrated eco-communities that produce their own organic food. Made with circular building materials, their impact on the environment is minimal. Existing farmers can be retrained to become advisors in ecological farming and permaculture, and their equipment can be made to good use for turning monocultures and lawns into rich bio-cropland and fruit forests.
A simple adaptation in zoning practices can make a big difference. On a per project basis local governments can give the green light to initiatives for building integrated eco-communities that produce their own organic food. Made with circular building materials, their impact on the environment is minimal. Existing farmers can be retrained to become advisors in ecological farming and permaculture, and their equipment can be made to good use for turning monocultures and lawns into rich bio-cropland and fruit forests.
