The Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower in Florida is also known as the Perky Bat Tower. Richter Clyde Perky was a project developer in the US in the beginning of the last century. He was looking for a way to make […]
Projects
3.3 Birdhouse
Vogels kruipen van oudsher graag onder dakpannen om daar te nestelen. In moderne met dakpannen belegde daken zijn mogelijke nestplaatsen zorgvuldig weggewerkt. Dit omdat met het bouwen van nesten het isolatie materiaal beschadigd en de ventilatie onder de dakpan blokkeert. […]
3.3 Nest
Dit vogelhuis bestaat uit twee schalen die om een tak aan elkaar kunnen worden geschroefd. Het product is ontworpen om in onderontwikkelde gebieden te worden geproduceerd. Het is onderdeel van een project wat als doel heeft kinderen naar school te […]
3.3 Common Swift nesting site, Agnes Convent
The common swift originates from rocky areas. They see our buildings as one big rock formation. On their part, people realized that common swifts feed on insects. As early as the fifteenth century, openings for these birds to fly into […]
4.9 Green Living Spaces Plan, Birmingham
A greener city is a healthier city. This was the motto for the Green Living Spaces Plan, which includes measures to enhance the city’s ecological structure and at the same time provide a healthier environment for its residents. A network […]
5.1 Vacant Lot
Vacant Lot is an example of social sustainability where the residents are activated to bring more social cohesion to their neighbourhoods, and to strengthen the (experience of) urban nature and urban farming. The project takes vacant plots in deprived urban […]
4.5 Biotophaver Tophaver Nørre Campus
The Biotope Gardens in Copenhagen are set up as a recreational park area in combination with an educational project. The aim is to raise people’s awareness of the concept of biodiversity and to simultaneously challenge them to explore Danish nature. […]
4.9 The Crown Estate Ecological Masterplan
A green corridor will connect Regent’s Park and St. James’s Park. This corridor consists of green and brown roofs, stamp gardens, green walls, trees, community gardens and planters. Beehives and boxes for birds and bats will be installed as well. […]
3.4 Fish ladder Wolvenvallei
The woods Kralingse Bos, with the lake Kralingse Plas in it, is one of the largest green recreational areas of Rotterdam. Until 2010, the lake’s water regularly failed to meet the European standards for bathing water. It was not only […]
3.3 Filter Factory
The project Filter Factory was first and foremost a statement about the littering behaviour of smokers. Cigarette ends, especially the filters, are a substantial part of all our street litter. Some birds eat butts because these look like food, others […]