Stacking Green by Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Vo Trong Nghia Architects designed Stacking Green, a house located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Description from the architects

The house, designed for a couple in their thirties and their mother, is a typical tube house constructed on the plot 4m wide and 20m deep. The front and back facades are composed of layers of concrete planters cantilevered from two sidewalls. To water plants, the automatic irrigation pipes inside the planters were installed. Rainwater is collected in the tank and pumped up for this irrigation system.

This green facade and roof garden protect its inhabitants from direct sunlight, street noise and pollution. According to the post-occupancy measurement of the indoor environment, wind flows throughout in the house thanks to the porous façades and 2 skylights. This result was already proven by the behavior of the inhabitants; they scarcely use the air conditioner even in the tropical climate, their electricity fees are just 25USD per month, thanks to the wind flow and other passive design methods.

Design: Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Photography: Hiroyuki Oki

23 Arrests Later (23 pics)

34-year-old woman from Florida was first arrested 10 years ago. Here is her aging timeline made out of the police mugshots. The first photo was made in 2003, the last one on December 5, 2013 after she bit off a part of her boyfriend's ear.

Omega Outdoor Cooking Table by Edward J. Frame

When summer is here, it would be great to set up Omega Outdoor Cooking Table and enjoy family activities or gathering with your friends outdoor. This cooking table has been designed to combine both the full enjoyment when cooking outdoor while still retain the social aspect of entertaining your guests. Easy to setup as well as easy to store, simply fold flat when not in use. It uses gas powered appliance to cook your food, it’s practical and great solution for outdoor eating.

Designer : Edward J. Frame

Omega Outdoor Cooking Table by Edward J. Frame is originally posted on Tuvie

Bot Autonomous Cab by Chris Luchowiec

BOT autonomous cab is an ideal transportation for areas with relatively low population. It’s a future vision of a new transportation system that could replace cars since most people would prefer to use public transport for commuting. This concept car addresses the problem of lone car commuters, at the same time, it eliminates the waiting periods, last mile issues, and inflexibility. People will get to experience the same functionality of car without having to own one, it’s relatively cheap and safe cab that they get to share with others to reduce cost/ride and traffic congestion. It’s a perfect transportation for your daily rides to work. Everyone can access this vehicle, it offers door-to-door mobility for elderly people, children, and people with disabilities. Sharing the ride also means that you get to meet new people everyday, it strengthens the feeling of belonging to the society.

Designer : Chris Luchowiec

People can ask ride-request to these Bots, it can be easily done via a mobile device. This cab will pick up user at any location, just like a taxi will do and drive the user to the destination. A single cab that is shared, theoretically can replace 4 private cars, thus, making great contribution to reduce traffic congestion. Aside from that, since BOT autonomous cab doesn’t require parking spaces, it allows more urban space given back to the people. Unlike buses or trains which operate even when they are empty, BOTs only operate when needed and where needed.

The design of this cab features friendliness, honesty, simplicity, and optimism, few aspects that often forgotten in automotive industry. It’s not egocentric, it creates better connection between you and other people.

Bot Autonomous Cab by Chris Luchowiec is originally posted on Tuvie

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What Would The Ingredient List For A Natural Product Look Like

Australian chemistry teacher James Kennedy has created a tongue-in-cheek set of images that take a fresh perspective on the public discussion about fresh and organic foods vs. the genetically modified products and chemical pesticides being championed by companies like Monsanto. His posters take all-natural products and break them down by their chemical composition, or their “ingredients.”



When we read the ingredient labels on the processed foods that we eat (or choose not to eat), there’s usually a long and worrisome list of chemical ingredients that we can’t identify. However, Kennedy’s series of images points out that our fear of some of these chemicals might be misplaced.



“I want to erode the fear that many people have of ‘chemicals’, and demonstrate that nature evolves compounds, mechanisms and structures far more complicated and unpredictable than anything we can produce in the lab,” writes Kennedy, who personally avoids buying any sort of food with monosodium glutamate (MSG) or high-fructose corn syrup.



“This poster series breaks down all the major ingredients in popular natural foods—using E-numbers and IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] names instead of common names where they exist. Anthocynanins, for example, which are said to give blueberries their ‘superfood’ status, are also known as E163,” he explained.