Smart leather skyscraper absorbs the world around us

Fans like bioengineering draw parallels between living creatures and unusual machines. And also often been compared with the living organism entire building. When such a comparison does not seem like an exaggeration? This may happen soon. In the meantime, a stroll on the skyscraper, living in harmony with nature, offering the Dutch designers.

The company's specialists Philips decided to dream, what would be the residential building in the Chinese mega-cities in 2020. Why Chinese? This is one of the fastest growing countries in the world, where urbanization is enormous pace.

Not for nothing is the same China has given rise to the terrible communal by 50 thousand people. And it is for China Spaniards once designed bionic tower at 100 thousand inhabitants and an international group of architects - zhutkovaty city resembling hives.



Unlike predecessors, the people of the Philips set at the heart of ecology. They say, without it, no city can not survive its own rapid growth. And if so - the future of the building itself must provide for themselves with electricity, light and water.

In general terms, this approach is not new. It would seem - what is the complexity? Add solar panels and windmills, the system of collecting rainwater and "transport" of natural sunlight inside the building. Similar projects we have seen more than once.

Only with the implementation there is one snag - the bigger the tower, the more difficult it is to write it all of the above systems at once. Here is a "zero" cottages - is another thing. Such houses "self" has already built the stack, even international competitions are conducted.

But when trying to apply similar techniques to vysochennym tower - is not always good. Let's mention the controversial project outside the building-the mill.

Philips has decided that the function of collecting light and water must be evenly distributed throughout the external walls. Do not need no pool on the roof or the huge windmills in the arches, do not obscure the facades of solar panels, or waste precious internal volume of the tower at supersistemy storage and distribution of energy.

All this should ensure every square meter of wall, which, according to the intent of the Dutch should be something like a skin, a living organism or cell membrane.

Thus came the draft Sustainable Habitat 2020 - green in every sense of the building, cover bionic "skin".

His company has developed as part of its initiative Design Probes, to find the contours of the future of our technological civilization.





Skin not only protects the body. She is involved in the metabolism with the environment (skin respiration, the withdrawal of the toxin to then), synthesizes vitamin D by the action of ultraviolet radiation, and so on.

And "skin" from Philips. Thousands of cell walls, like cells must deal with multiple tasks. On the basis of small flowers hubs, "grow" from the wall and turn towards the sun, then met a lot of systems.

First, they often collect the light coming into the embedded solar cells, which gives energy. Secondly, part of the light goes inside the building, providing coverage of the interior during the day. And it - saving energy.

Those flowers do not waive the third function: to collect rain water cups, sent in tanks inside the tower.

In conjunction with the filtration of water (in particular, there will be UV disinfection), and re-used where possible, water is the technical solution to reduce the need for the construction of the water supplied from outside.





Through holes in the "flowers" in a special channels and enters the air. Here is a fourth option, and even the fifth. Because the air that turns the miniature wind turbinki, giving, again, electricity, and more - goes through the filter and enters the room.

In fact, run through the distribution channels in the walls, compressed air is cooled, thereby providing air conditioning and natural.

These wall units can suck out moisture from the air, the authors reported the concept, however, did not clarify - exactly how.

And yet the Dutch refer to the embedded system to capture carbon dioxide, not specifying - how it will operate.

But in this dream-building wonders from Philips does not end there. Say it is not the usual windows. Universal cell skin "cover the whole surface of the wall.

But residents of the house still be able to admire the scenery and let natural light into their rooms. The point is that the wall blocks are made transparent, electronically controlled with light absorbing layer.

One press of a button - and before the owner of an apartment window appears. And people will be able to arbitrarily change its size, and even an image, causing the life to those or other patterns.

Science fiction? But such an interactive window Philips has another last fall. Of course, it does not even know how to develop current and collect water, but reacts to the wave of the hand.

Finally, in the same wall space should be built as miniature reactors produce biogas from organic waste. It is used for heating buildings and for cooking.

For advanced technologies, such a system, each individual is not "secret." Only here the integration of all this within the universal wall blocks - no easy task. As will be intertwined all these air and water artery, so more light?

No less a question - the balance of energy and water in the Sustainable Habitat. It is such a building can really be independent? Fence because it will be the same giants, greedily intercept and light and wind, and the slanting flow showers?

Perhaps the traditional cart of electrical cables and plumbing in the unusual construction of refuse still do not have to.

Until 2020, there is still time to answer these questions. But one can already say now: the idea of decentralization, "life-support systems skyscraper merits attention. At least as a support complex, reduces the load of the building on the environment. What a dreamer and Philips needed to prove.