Is a building broken when it doesn’t produce its own energy? By 2040 all governmental buildings in the Netherlands need to be circular and carbon neutral. How will those buildings function and look like?
This proposal for the Dutch Ministry of Finance in The Hague investigates how solar energy can be integrated aesthetically and circular. The building will function as a testcase and example for other governmental buildings.
By looking at natura phenomena such as heliotrophy (a surface that follows the light) and new types of solar technologies, a complete new approach of harvesting energy arrises.
Organic and transparent solar cells or solar panels that can be printed in any colour colour and pattern. Now we no longer have to see solar technology purely a technology any longer, as circulair, fully integrated and as a true addition to the building.