Spirulina Farm
A façade can be far more than the aesthetic or energetic clothing of a building. In a future, façades will be able to take on multifunctional tasks. With intelligent technologies they would be able to generate energy through its own envelopment.
The design of the program is an ideal shape which lends to the structure and position of the bus shelter and it would reduce the carbon emissions in the area (del to - add of) CO2.
An Intelligent design (ID) Situated in front of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England is presented by its proponents as “an evidence-based scientific theory about certain features biological to be the result of natural processes in the future.
It uses photosynthesis to create its energy and food in combination with the environment it lives in, taking in different metals and nutrients.
The bioreactor façade structure and function at the outside of the micro-program is used for the production of micro-algae. Each of these reactor modules are mounted on a steel frame that is simultaneously used for wiring. These are filled with water in which micro-algae are cultivated. As a nutrient, CO2 is added to the culture it then converts the growing algae.
The design of the program is an ideal shape which lends to the structure and position of the bus shelter and it would reduce the carbon emissions in the area to CO2.
PUBLIC SPACE: VISITORS can collect SPIRULINA BREAD from the bakery and you can also watch the algae grow. The first level of façade structure becomes tables and benches to be enable to people to relax watching the spirulina cultivation. The green colour of the façade shows that the algae are breaking down carbon dioxide and processing it by photosynthesis. The renewable energy production is outside, warmly visible and forms part of the architectural concept.
SPIRULINA can be used as an dietary supplement, added to smoothies
It’s been explored as a form of food fortification add it to daily staple such as bread, children’s sweets and could help chronic malnutrition in poor counties. It represents a fresh approach to food.
The conversion of light to food supply instead of heat as BIQ House, is a well-known physical process used in solar thermal design. In contrast, the conversion of light to biomass in this project is a biochemical process facilitated by microscopically small algae, called micro-algae. Micro-algae conversion of CO2 to organic matter, this fact leads to a new opportunity of reducing CO2 emission through building façades, different from sunlight energy systems but with the same way of non-contamination as in the creation of electricity.
Process of algae production on the outside of the building where it receives more sun light than the rest of the structure.
Supply and disposal of water for the bioreactors is ensured directly through municipal tap water.