Econic Design is a pioneering direction for architecture and design of the future. It takes the point of view of “Ecology + Icon = Econic” and aims to construct buildings that are not only environmentally friendly, but actually contribute to the healing of nature and communicate an ecological message. Econic Design is still in the experimental stage and being workshopped at University of Pennsylvania and Rio.


ECONIC DESIGN

LOCATION: Rio de Janeiro; SCOPE: Concept Engineering, Schematic Design;

PROJECT TYPE: Ecological Knowledge Exchange Center, INSTRUCTOR: Matthias Hollwich

Projects include Ecosemblies (G. Sarhos, A. Bosse), SWARM (B. Muller, A. Jezzi) , Algae Power (F. Al-Shathir), E-Tox (L. Nelson, Y. Bhombal) , Lagoa (2) (TJ O'Keefe, H. Lee), Re-Fresh (H. Yoo, S. Kim), and ROJO (2) (J. Kowalkoski, R. May).