UrbanTile - Concept Design for Sustainable Energy

This blog is aimed at showing how green design can help our lives and contribute to our wellbeing. The product that you see left is a great example of exactly this. It was designed by Meidad Marzan, an industrial design student from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Its name is UrbanTile - a small solar panel that can be flipped to reveal a light-emitting screen. Banded together into rows, the panels make a window blind that forms a light or an entertainment display. It will use the solar energy that city buildings absorb during the day for their lighting needs at night. 

UrbanTile was Merzan’s graduation project for his course in the Industrial Design Dept. at Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem. The Urban. The panels could be made from aluminum and stainless steel, featuring an OLED screen on one side and photovoltaic panel on the other. Incorporating electrical motors to move them, they could be programmed to turn automatically at different times of the day. Designed to be mounted into windows, the panels could be turned to rest at various angles allowing light in during the day whilst absorbing solar energy.

In the evening, the OLED screens would be turned to face indoors to light up rooms and also provide a bank of screens for media playback. At night, the light emitting side could also be turned outwards to produce engaging patterns of light

From Clean Technica

Urban wall garden with magnetic pots

Urban wall gardens are growing in numbers these days, but this is something new - it is created with magnetic pots! A great way to enable those living in apartments and lofts or working in offices to have their green garden even in a very limited space. As Sprinwise reports, there is a

"wave of innovative ideas for urban dwellers to grow plants and herbs in limited space, and the latest seed of inspiration comes from US company Urbio with their “magically magnetic urban vertical garden”... Pots made of eco-plastic contain a large neodymium magnet which attach them to each other as well as to the modular magnetic back plates which can be mounted onto walls or ferrous surfaces, creating a vertical garden. The magnets are strong enough to hold the pots to the wall when filled with plants, and pots can be removed with a firm tug to be watered."

Introducing Urbio for Myurbio.com from Enlisted Design on Vimeo.