If its gonna be an impervious surface, it might as well be a solar collector. A building being planned outside Paris is set to be the most energy efficient office ever. Its solar arrays will provide all the power needed to drive heating, cooling and lighting, with enough to spare some for the grid. Of course this isn't just brute solar-voltaic prowess here, the insulation and cooling techniques are novel too. And it looks like designers went with the classic layout of "stickman with another headless stickman for a head", renoun for its energy saving properties. The building will cost 25% more than a normal office park. But for self-sufficiency that seems pretty reasonable.
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