3 Things to Inspire Your Weekend: #72

Quote of the day: 

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily -Paulo Coelho

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An eleven year old from Colorado, US, Gitanjali Rao has won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Selected from 10 finalists she took home $25,0000, for her idea of a sensor that can detect lead levels in water better and more accurately than traditional methods. Rao, working with 3M scientists developed her idea 5 months after learning of the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan -where lead -contaminated water is a problem. Rao wants to either become a geneticist or epidemiologist when she grows up.

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Chris Long, the NFL's Eagles defensive end is donating his entire salary for the season to educational charities in the three cities where he has played -Philadelphia, St.Louis and Boston. He is set to make a base salary of $1 million during the season all of which will go to these charities. He said he is doing it because he "believes that education is the best gateway to a better tomorrow for everyone in America". Long has been involved in charity and activism and two years ago started a foundation that supports causes such as access to clean water and fighting homelessness.  

As seen on Arch Daily, Binh House

Architects: VTN Architects
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki, Quang Dam

Brief: 

Part of a house for trees series of prototypical house designs offering green spaces within high density neigbourhoods. The inhabitants are a family consisting of 3 generations -the challenge was to create a space to interact and communicate despite their differences.

Theme:  Vertically stacked spaces with gardens visible from the exterior of the house. Bounded by sliding glass doors which act as a natural source of light and ventilation for each room as well as increasing visibility between family members. The roof garden also adds a natural feel to the house, a sort of vertical farming solution that suits and contributes to the Vietnamese way of life.




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