Nano Vent Skin

by mike on Jun.20, 2008, under cool, environmental

This is such a freaking cool idea. Sure, it’s a concept and is largely untested, but it combines brilliant architecture and design with sound science. If I had gobs of money I would throw millions at Mexican-born designer Agustin Otegui and get this on the market. We’re dependent on fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine at the moment, but we won’t always be. Nature is constantly evolving and improving, and so should humanity.

From CNN…

Organic by Design
As a product designer, Agustin Otegui’s has to “think big” about the objects he creates. From novel portable chairs made out of shovels to chrome radiators that look like modern works of art, he recasts the mundane in a modernist and functional new light.

The Nano Vent Skin forms an organic skin around a building providing its energy needs.

Yet when he got thinking about how he could help with solutions to mitigate climate change he started thinking small. Very small, in fact.

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… read the rest of the article…