Dutch Windwheel - new building concept

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Well, it is probably encorporating a lot of existing ideas, but they've designed a circular building. At first I thought it was a new sort of giant turbine, from the name, but it is a wind cooled building, with solar power, rain water capture and the like - all from materials local to Roterdam and designed so you can take it apart and reuse the bits. So quite cool. I'd like to find a webpage with a bit more technical detail, but so far so intriguing

The Dutch Windwheel

The Dutch Windwheel
dutchwindwheel.com dutchwindwheel.com
 
That was 2016. And after that it became really quiet. It's not an entirely dead project, I believe.

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I love how futuristic it looks. Genuinely like something from the future we were promised.

I wonder how practical it is from a usage standpoint. There looks like a tonne of unused space for the footprint. Plus how does nearby buildings affect energy production and cooling? Air turbulence must have quite an impact on efficiency.

Hope it works and I get to see it though!
 
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