Ecobuild 2018

It’s been a while since I last managed to visit Ecobuild, but finally this year I managed to wrangle a one-day visit. I had missed it! Ecobuild is one of my favourite construction events! I find it incredibly inspiring and it always renews my faith in the industry.

Ecobuild is the UK’s leading exhibition and conference for construction, design and energy in the sustainable built environment. This year it was bought by Futurebuild, so things have been changed a bit: it is now more compact and the thematic districts are different.

House in Travessa de Patrocinio by Luís Rebelo de Andrade + Tiago Rebelo de Andrade + Manuel Cachão Tojal

House in Travessa de Patrocinio
Architects: Luís Rebelo de Andrade, Tiago Rebelo de Andrade , Manuel Cachão Tojal
Location: Travessa do Patrocínio, Lisbon, Portugal
Completed: 2012

This is a very simple residence in a narrow plot in Lisbon. What caught my interest in it was it’s living facade. Its walls are completely covered with vegetation, creating a vertical garden, filled with around 4500 plants from 25 different Iberian and Mediterranean varieties which occupies 100 square meters.

Trees in the townscape

I have changed up my posting schedule a little bit by adding a new category. I live with the hope that I will eventually become a proper blogger and uphold my schedule.

So first urban brief.

Let’s talk about trees. I love the city. I’m a city girl born and bred. That doesn’t stop me loving nature too. I find the countryside gorgeous, but I don’t know if I’d be able to live there. So some of my favourite places are parks and city beaches and hills, generally all sorts of places that bring nature into the city.

Ecobuild 2014

This week Ecobuild took place at the Excel way over in the Docklands. Ecobuild is as you can imagine a huge event/fair/conference/show that deals with sustainable and green technologies and development in the build environment in all possible permutations.