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 * Article Summary

From atelier to e-telier: Virtual design studios**

This article refers to the Virtual design studios, some kind of design studio which is focus on the core of architectural education. It’s a tool used by student and professionals. It started between two schools and later it extends to more learning centers, this workspace is distributed along by net. It’s used by designers to have interactive sessions along the net, in the same way presents different kinds of communications elements like text, images or models to transmit information. The VDS is one of the best platform to education of architecture in all aspects.

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 * Video Podcast Summary**

Arthur Aw, a young and successful architect and director of Land Planning Group at JTC Corp, and Peter Kageyama, the summit's producer and president of Creative Tampa Bay, are interviewed. Both of them talk about how design can affect in a positive way the professional development of science. They talked about the design of the Biopolis, in Singapore, which is a research building where scientific and biomedical investigation is carried out. They also talked about the importance of urban planning and landscaping that surrounds the research building. In other words, it’s not just the designing and construction of a research facility but its relationship with the environment.



media type="file" key="collaborative summary.mp3" width="240" height="20" By Oriana Barrera, Jaimar Castro and Marcos Colina **RSTT**  The bio construction try to make relationships between the functional and designs aspects in an harmonic way from the technological applications, and of course, try to make direct link with the natural or urban environment, from the house or building, with the objective to make places that responds to the human necessities in a healthy, sustainable and integral condition.

There are some aspects that a sustainable building must have.

Healthy construction materials Acoustic comfort Electric and water installations Recyclable system Functional design: color, light, spaces and dimensions 



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