Eco Factor: Multiple-use development designed to harness solar energy for heat, power and illumination. The Vertical Village by Graft Lab is a multiple-use development for Dubai, which is designed to provide space for residential, hotel and entertainment facilities, while harnessing solar energy to the maximum.
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Eco Architecture: Vertical Village by Graft utilizes sun to the maximum
Solar Decathlon Build-out Gathers Pace By Chris Stimpson Solar Nation Executive Campaigner The sun rose this morning on a new development in progress in downtown Washington — about as downtown as you can get, in fact. On the National Mall, stretching from the Washington Monument east to the Smithsonian ‘Castle’, twenty small houses were in different stages of construction. They had started their journey to the capital from points as far away as Darmstadt, Germany and as close as the state of Virginia, to compete in the 2009 Solar Decathlon