Doris Sung is currently rethinking the way how building skins are constructed and embedded in our daily lives. For here idea of interactive, zero-energy building components, she received a [the next idea] honorary mention! Here you can find out more about here project….

We have to deal with our history and there is sometimes no way out! And althoug that seems to be very true for architecture, the Re-Skin project shows a way how it is possible to transfrom buildings in an eays and effective way.

Why not use lightning as an energy source? Four architecture students submitted this idea in 2011 and here you can find their submission…..

How to navigate peoples energy consumption by the use of smart technologies has been a challange for the last couple of years. Fran Castillo tries to solve this problem by cmobining the realt time visualization of the energy consumption of a whole city and autonomous, decentralized energy systems.

Facing the big problems of today, Stergios Dendrou and his team developed the idea of a mountain that allows us to survive in the desert! Find his next idea proposal here….

Philipp Maul is a young designer from Austria and I had the pleasuer to talk to him at the design week vienna. With his novel concept of a noise protection wall and his thoughts about how technology can be implemented in our daily lives in a more conveniant way he cought my attention…

To recycle plastic is not a really new thing, but to build a whole island out of it, is somehow noteable. Although this island doesn´t exist jet, the WHIM architects make a nice and interesting proposal with their Recycled Island project.

A giant lung built out of old cars and cleaning New Delhi´s air, that´s the idea of the architect Julien Combes and the engineer Gaël Brulé! And here is an excerpt of their submission…..

Teresa Buscemi submitted here electroStatic Architecture project in 2010 and with this project she wants to show how the accessibility of static electricity can be used to generate another useful and practical form of energy: light! An extract of her submission can be found here…..

After I have published a lot about [the next idea] at the Festival it´s time for a little break (don´t worry I will come up with some festival videos as soon as they are available….) and to present some projects out of [the next idea] database again. This one is an interesting architectural approach thinking about restructuring skyskrapers called NeoTax; more information can be found here……