Eco Factor: An organic educational model harness clean solar energy.
Designer Johanna Schönberger’s ‘Solar Grid’ combines the flexible thin-film technology and basalt fibers into a meticulous piece of structure that aims at providing double functionality at a time. The structure not only harness energy from sunlight but also provides an excellent opportunity of learning by working as a free organic model of education. Basalt fiber makes the design cheaper, but ensures durability that of similar to carbon fibers. This is because of the fact that these fibers have better physicomechanical properties than fiberglass.
The design is customizable due to arbitrary arrangement of leave shaped PV cells. This helps it adjusting to any particular environment. This adds more advantages to its ornamental aspect. Although the structure is a sort of network of basalt fibers, each PV cell work as single unit that generates electricity independently. This energy can be utilized depending upon the individual requirement. In brief, the design is an excellent piece of work that combines ornamental, educational and energy generating features in one structure.
Via: UNI
