| Posted: June 19, 2008 |
Skyscraper with nanotechnology skin |
| (Nanowerk News) CNN today carries a story about product designer Agustin Otegui's project aimed to trigger new approaches into greener and more energy efficient structures. |
| His futuristic concept is called the Nano Vent-Skin (NVS) and the design –to wrap buildings in an organic lattice skin made up of micro wind turbines – is radical. |
| One concept Otegui developed is a skyscraper to show how Nano Vent-Skin can be used on new designs and concepts. |
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| NVS Building. (Image: Agustin Otegui) |
| Otegui told CNN: "Instead of trying to build these huge turbines which are always getting bigger and bigger, I thought, why not do something on a small scale and use it on existing objects and buildings. I wanted to try to cover them like a crawling plants you see on facades." |
| Armed with the desire to create something 100 percent organic, Otegui set about researching the possibilities of nanotechnology. "I found out about nanotubes and then I came across some MIT research into nano-manufacturing," he explained to CNN. |
| That's how he developed his idea of the nanomanufactured Nano Vent-skin, which tries to make existing objects greener with a skin made out of micro wind turbines. |
| Otegui maintains a blog called Nano Vent-Skin where you can read more about his ideas. The CNN article can be found here. |
| Source: CNN; Nano Vent-Skin |
