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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Sun gifts

Solar tower

If there should be somewhere huge solar towers for electric power generation to happen it should somewhere here — in the south of solar Spain, near to Seville. The commercial thermal solar power station first in Europe — PS 10 — has officially become operational on March, 30th this year. Power of the station erected in Spain, makes 11 megawatt.

№2: PS 20

Hardly later, in April, 2009, Spaniards have erected the second tower, is more powerful than the first twice — PS 20. The principle of work of towers is simple: the field from set of the mirrors tracing movement of the Sun, collects light and directs a sunlight on tower top, heating up a hydrochloric solution which in turn, gives energy to water, transforming water to steam.

Steam runs on pipes and, finally, twists the turbines connected to electric generators. Thanks to presence of the intermediate heat-carrier — salt weight — towers are capable to accumulate “warmly for emergency”.

Solar power

Solar station

The world's largest solar power station

In cloudy weather or evening of the turbine are capable to work on the energy kept in the big tanks with hot salt. The capacious storehouse of the fused salt (565 degrees warmed up to temperature on Celsius) can ensure functioning of steam and gas generators within 16 hours after a sunset. So in the summer station generators will not stop neither in the afternoon, nor at night.

Project PS20 has 1,255 mirrors, PS10 — 624 mirrors, the area on 130 sq. m. everyone. PS20 — the world's largest power station, power of 20 megawatt a day, is enough this energy to provide with light, heat and an electricity more than 10,000 houses. Similar towers it is planned to erect also in the southwest USA.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mecanoo have constructed theatre and the congress centre

Llotja de Lleida

The new congress centre and the theatre designed by Dutch bureau Mecanoo, reminds the huge UFO which has landed on the Spanish earth.

Llotja de Lleida

On a building facade there is a tape of windows, on a roof the garden with twisted plants is broken. The project is called Llotja de Lleida.

In registration of interiors of theatre silhouettes of trees were used. Walls in a building are issued by white plaster, the floor is made of marble or a tree.
Congress centre

White interior

Theatre
New congress centre

New theatre in Lleida

Building characteristics: the total area of 37,500 sq.m., theatre on 1000 spectator places, this premise also can function as the congress centre, two more congress halls on 400 and 200 places, the multipurpose premise, two foyers, 9,500 sq.m. of a parking, 15,325 more m.sq. — the area of office and 2,591 m.sq. — trading premises.

Monday, April 5, 2010

House Apartment-Digital facade

Media laboratory

The digital facade on the area of Songs (Plaza de las Letras) is a result of investments of city administration of Madrid; now media laboratory Prado had a possibility to show to the public results of own researches of art, to combine them with requirements of a wide audience and the advanced technologies.

The given artless invention advances very important values and skills: social responsibility, an information transfer, social interaction.

Medialab Prado — Madrid

Plaza de las Letras

Digital facade

Media laboratory Prado — Spain

Sunday, March 14, 2010

New vision of office space for clerks

BBVA

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have developed design of the central office for Spanish bank group BBVA.

Bank on suburbs of Madrid

The building, which building is planned to finish in 2013 year, will be on suburbs of Madrid.

The building is in new area, is surrounded by office centres, the commercial real estate and residential buildings. In this cold, reserved place architects have suggested to erect an artificial garden, an oasis which would involve outside inside. The linear structure of a three-storyed structure is laid out by a carpet, following district topography. The cool and damp microclimate is inside created.

Spanish bank

Spanish bank BBVA

The design plan promotes dialogue: instead of spending time in lifts, employees can walk in parallel corridors and meet with each other. The big degree of a transparency creates sensation of a generality whereas rather small working compartments allow employees to keep feeling of own identity.