Home > Blog > More Than One Way To Skin A Building >

More than one way to skin a building

Posted by andyh on 06 February 2010 | View all posts | Previous | Next

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]

Ways to get Green Thing:
Subscribe to our lovely newsletter >>
Watch our latest videos >>
Get Green Thing on iTunes >>
Read the top member stories >>
Read the latest from the Green Thing blog >>
Follow Green Thing on Twitter >>

In: innovation, architecture, design, solar, all-consuming, skyscraper, plug out

Buy Nothing^TM

Amazero_thumb

Go on, shop your sustainable heart out and Buy Nothing^TM.

MORE More-white

Join-up-off

latest comments

I too live in a country where we don't have clean drinking water from the tap, so we are forced to buy bottles. We do use...

lippyleipreachain 7 days ago

Gatecrashing the Energy Sector

Would love to be involved - I have spent the past 6 months on the British Gas customer panel, lobbying for much higher...

Archipet 9 days ago

Gatecrashing the Energy Sector

I'll be there! I think there are some great ways to increase participation in renewable energy generation. Ben Brabyn...

ben_brabyn 9 days ago

I'm thirsty...

NYBrowne 11 days ago

Seven holidays, no flights: Diary of a flightless 2009

Unfortunately I do not have any trust in this site. We are a fair company and if we get it wrong then we must pay for...

amit_kumar 11 days ago

Top Tags

all-consuming
plug out
innovation
misc
energy
Stick With What You Got
green thing
Copenhagen
design
easy on the meat

Most Recent Tags

service
electronic waste
commercial
solar heater
tinker
backyard
directions
male
female
A garden party to make a difference