Live Algae Used In World’s First Bio-Adaptive Facade

When it comes to sustainable buildings, nothing gets greener than this. The world’s first bio-adaptive façade will be installed in the BIQ house for the 

The façade concept is designed so that algae contained in so-called bio-reactor panels grow faster in bright sunlight to provide more internal shading. Using the latest technological finds, the bio-reactors not only produce biomass that can subsequently be harvested, but they also capture solar thermal heat, hence providing two energy sources that can be used to power the building.

Arup developed the bio-reactor concept in cooperation with 

The house that the façade is mounted on was designed by