Smart Balance of the Nature & Modern Architectural Technologies

The Architectural Prototype

According to founders of this futuristic project — the Australian architectural studio «Laboratory for Visionary Architecture» (LAVA), the «Home of the Future» represents itself as a metaphor concluding sense of the vital issues of our time.

Futuristic Project of the Future

The futuristic prototype of architecture of the future, urged to balance requirements of the person and the nature into uniform ultra-modern Eco-system. The theme of mutual relations of the person with environment and modern technologies finds development in the huge dome-shaped structure. Construction of huge architectural structure will be begun in the end of 2011 in Beijing (China).

Here will be presented 15 various samples of a micro-climate the planets recreating characteristic environment for them with integrated information technology which carry out function of the electronic vein providing a comfortable life.
The dome-shaped ceiling of structure is made from transparent plastic cover «ETFE». This modern technological material is fine alternative to traditional glass, because has twice smaller weight, lower cost and ability to pass an ultraviolet light. Last characteristic is the big advantage for formation of winter gardens and greenhouses. Besides, the ETFE is highly elastic and steady against temperature differences.
At the moment, the project Home of the Future participates in the architectural exhibition which is passing in Sydney (Australia) from now on and till March, 31st. Authors of innovative building project will present: specifications, real 3D-models, computer visualization and demonstration animation.

Wooden toys for small Kids

Toys for Kids

The tree — is probable, the most ancient material for manufacturing of children's toys. Easily gives in to processing, is capable to accept different forms and to be painted into different colors. The tree is a live material which gives harmony, balance and positive energy.

According to psychologists, the children toy should be made of natural materials. Natural materials, unlike synthetic, hand over the truthful information on world around. For example, the plastic cube can be the big size, but weigh slightly. Such subject deforms representation about conformity of weight and volume.

Wooden Toys — the Best Toys For the Child!

Besides, a hand of the child, perceiving natural materials, receives the information on the world. The tree bark — rough, a stone — smooth, sand — loose, water does not contain the form. Playing with plastic toys, the hand of the child feels only their smooth, cold surface.

Many European manufacturers choose a tree as the main material for creation of toys. It's a non-polluting natural material which is capable to make a wonders. The applied material (a birch, a linden, paints and varnishes on a water basis) for traditional wooden toys corresponds to the highest sanitary-and-hygienic requirements, manual skills and a manual work prevail at toys creation.

The wooden toy created by the Italian masters is a subject of art, this small miracle created by old generations, was born again for future generation.

Classical Wooden Toys

Melting continent

The scale research spent within the limits of the International polar year, has shown that Antarctica melts much faster, than was considered till now.

Many scientists have been assured that intensive disappearance of ices is observed basically on Antarctic peninsula. The new data shows that the ice sheet area decreases in all Western Antarctica. Some of huge glaciers slip in ocean almost twice faster, than several decades ago. The mass of glaciers annually decreases on 114 billion tons. All ice of Greenland approximately so much weighs.

Thawing of glaciers occurs not only on the coldest continent, but also in warmer places. Research of the ministry of environment of Spain has shown that the area of the Spanish glaciers for last 100 years was reduced almost to 90%.

Mountain skiers start to sound alarm

Many scientists believe that the originator of fast disappearance of mounting skiing resorts and, accordingly, catastrophic lifting of level of the World ocean is global warming. Accelerate global warming the hotbed gases most known of which is CO2, or carbonic gas can. It gets to atmosphere at breath, combustion of fossil fuel, eruptions of volcanoes and other processes. CO2 (along with other hotbed gases) does not allow to a heat emission to leave from a surface of the Earth, promoting gradual growth of temperature.

The researchers considering global warming by real threat (this point of view divide not all), develop the various methods, allowing to measure maintenance CO2 in atmosphere. One of the most effective ways are satellite observation.

The American space agency (NASA) has developed and has designed the device intended only for this work. The companion under name OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) has been started from base of the Air Forces of the USA by Vandenberg in California on February, 24th, 2009.

Sara Russell tells about Antarctic