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The Soft House Project


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The Soft House Project
Published: Jun 12, 08
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This one is to all who are afraid of electricity black-outs.

“Kennedy is an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture,” says Inhabitat, and her Soft House project confirm this thesis.

Designed by Kennedy and his team from KVA Matx, Soft House is a structur, which create close to 16k watt-hours of electricity by transforming household curtains into flexible, semi-transparent, solar collectors.

According to Inhabitat, “the thin-film photovoltaic textiles are essentially solar panels created from organic photovoltaics. While not as efficient as the silicon based type, they are able to be molded and modified without any manufacturing process.”

Unfortunately, the current high cost of photovoltaic textiles makes this idea unreachable. However, the Soft House project shows that renewable energy technologies can be applied into architectural design in ways that have never been thought of before.

References:  kvarch.net, inhabitat

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Favorited by Bianca Bartz on Jun 12, 08
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bedlamite23 on Jun 13, 08  0 Trends   85 Comments
This is a great idea! (that really, really needs some grammatical and spelling fixes)
bedlamite23 on Jun 13, 08  0 Trends   85 Comments 0


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