A new apartment complex in Hamburg, Germany, intends to generate heat, as well as revenue. Architects, Chemical and Energy Engineers worked to together to produce what looks like a cross between a Mondrian painting and a terrarium but is actually a vertical algae farm.
It can create biofuel, produce heat, shade the building, abate street noise and make history.
Lukas Verlage, managing director of the Colt Group, part of the high-powered consortium that constructed the energy system, said in an e-mail that the building was “an outstanding and important development in the use of renewable resources in building technology,” comparable to advances in the space programme. They expect the technology to be widely available by the time our Year 7 pupils reach Sixth Form.
Do you have a quirky or weird 'careers fact' to interest young people? Please email me.
Kerry Low
Careers Adviser