SOLARLEAF Bio-Reactor Façade

The BIQ Building in Hamburg, Germany boasts the world’s first bio-reactive façade. It generates renewable energy from algal biomass and solar thermal heat, paving the way for living buildings as a renewable energy source to lower operational carbon.

The following webpage encourages the user to interact with the scale and buttons available to understand the potential of these bio-reactors to produce energy in kWh/m2.

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Instructions:

Click Start to randomise CO2 bubbles and Radiation.

Select a value in the CO2 and Location scale and then click Restart.

Watch how the output kWh/m2 and days to full yield changes.

For more on the BIQ building project:

https://www.arup.com/projects/solar-leaf https://www.coltinfo.co.uk/files/pdf/UK/SolarLeaf%20bioreactor%20facade.pdf