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 * [[image:virtual_studio.jpg width="222" height="269" align="left"]]Article summary **


 * The virtual design studios is a pedagogical method for the teaching of architectural design to students who are separated by kilometers of distance. The students and teachers communicate through text, images or web links. this virtual platform can be used for the exchange of information between students who do not need to be in the same place at the same time, and can address any problem of a design with the help of critics from any part the world.**




 * [[image:saratosa.summit.jpg width="385" height="239" align="left"]]Video summary **


 * In the video, Janet Sherer y Rob Tiisler, hosts of Tampa Bay's Media Talk, interview to Arthur Aw, architect and director of Land Planning Group at JTC Corp, and Peter Kageyama, Sarasota International Design Summit's producer in 2006 and president of CreativeTampaBay. In this interview, these experts stressed the function in the Singapore's Biopolis, a scientific's building linked to the environment. A research center that combines architecture, environment and science, where working scientists and biomedical.

Also, they talk about innovation and creativity in the designs of buildings in the country and its relationship to the development of the city. They also emphasize that urban planning creates better citizens and a better city; a planning that is being successfully in Singapore. In addition, they mentioned that the develop of industry in the city, transforms the business and the economy from the country.

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**RSTT (Research-Show-Tell-Task)**


 * Good morning. We are: Rostyn Rivero, Carla Borges y Yunuwy Verde. We will talk about ecocity, a large innovative project with high technology and eco friendly.

Hamburg, the German capital, has won the award for the greenest city in Europe in 2010. In this city takes place the first complex creative - fully sustainable industrial; is ecocity.

The development Eco City, designed by TEC architecture with the help of ARUP, aims to attract industry, entertainment and pedestrian life back to the neighborhood. Eco City’s ten major structures, ranging in size from studios to large warehouses, offer a variety of -different spaces for different purposes, bringing both large-scale industry and creative start-ups together in one, cooperative, and eco friendly business community-.

Eco City represents a synergistic approach to urban development. By working in close cooperation with all the stakeholders and taking into consideration the immediate environmental context of the project, has been created a different type of sustainable, creative – industrial complex.

The first phase of the project was completed in 2009 and the second, including a high-rise tower and a large office complex, is planned to be finished by the summer of 2010.

Organic and Energy Concept EcoCity Project whose goal is self-sufficiency, creating a smaller ecological impact on the environment. It is a self-sustaining resource that does not exploit or pollute the environment but seeks to coexist in harmony with its surroundings. This is ensured by the implementation of twenty-first century technologies such as: Wind Turbines; Solar Energy, through solar water heaters, solar cells and photovoltaic panels; Green roofs planted with large trees and flowers; and Sustainable Materials.

We chose ecocity for our Research-show-tell-task, because it is an innovative project that unites architecture and urban planning at the same time being eco friendly using new technology.

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