One of the most unusual sustainable buildings in the world, designed on nature's architecture and generating energy from daylight, was launched last week in a light show at the Eden Project in Cornwall. True to the Eden Project's principles, the new education and research facility, named The Core, is a superb example of sustainability using building-integrated photovoltaics (PV).
Described by Tim Smit, Eden CEO, as "the finest modern building in the world," The Core is the most geometrically complex roof structure into which the UK-based solar installation company Solarcentury has ever installed solar panels. The building's architecture follows the Fibonacci series -- a unique pattern at the heart of nature that generates, for example, the spirals in snail's shells or the pattern of seeds in the head of a sunflower.
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