Urban rigger: floating student flats – Aluthermo

Aluthermo Case Studies
Floating student flats in Copenhagen, designed by the famous architect Bjarke Ingels (BIG) & Kim Loudrup (Urban Rigger /Udvikling Danmark). The Urban Rigger is a complex of 6 containers that were transformed into student flats. The containers are insulated with our thin reflective insulation Aluthermo® Quattro to guarantee an optimal insulation without losing too much
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Mammoth Park at Viminacium, Serbia – Solatube

Solatube Case Studies
Mammoth Park, part of the Viminacium Archaeological Park near Kostolac in Eastern Serbia, opened in June 2014, and is now an exquisite tourist destination. The park is situated in an underground cave where visitors can see exposed skeletons of a female mammoth, Vike, found in 2009, as well as the remains of her four young
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Fabric First Retrofit Rejuvenates Dublin Social Housing

First Passive House Pharmacy
Built in the 1970s, Rochestown House was a cramped, cold and damp social housing block in Sallynoggin, Co Dublin that has now been completely transformed, thanks to a deep energy retrofit inspired by passive house principles. Can decades-old concrete flats be raised up to anything like the passive house standard? This was precisely the question
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Ireland’s First Passive House Pharmacy

First Passive House Pharmacy
Late last Summer, work finished on architect Paul McNally’s latest super low energy project: a three story building in Tipperary that has just become Ireland’s first certified passive house pharmacy. Since 1927, the Quirke family has been running a pharmacy on the main street in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. The original building on their O’Connell Street
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