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More than one way to skin a building

The modestly named Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA), has come up with something rather visionary - a transparent cocoon skin to wrap buildings which becomes a self-contained ‘micro climate’. It uses photo-voltaic cells to turn sunlight into solar energy, harvests rain water, creates better day lighting and uses all available convective energy for ventilation.








[Spotted on Architecture and Design via SmartBrief]



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