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Apr 26, 20110

HELIOS REHAB SANCTUARY [Solar + Healing]

including Emily Lau (Architecture Graduate) and Jonas Sin (Netherlands Architect), the “Helios

Rehab Sanctuary” innovates in application of sustainable technologies to create a new and exciting

typology.

HELIOS REHAB SANCTUARY [Solar + Healing]

Within an ethereal rehabilitating tower, shades of society gather forming communities of hope.

Occupants are treated with supported clean peaceful living. The tower, vertically zoned, focuses on

healing the BODY (lower), MIND (mid-section) and SPIRIT (high).

Truly sustainable cities should focus on the economy of resources but also the health of the people.

Diminished portions of the community briefly “escape” pressured living to rehabilitate within

the tower and ultimately release back into society. Sufferers are included in sympathetic micro-

communities living in specialized environments whilst contributing to society.

The tensegrity-network-based outer-frame houses horizontal access, connecting occupants to their

pods via green ramps surrounding central functions. The “hexa-skin” and pod shells incorporate

air pollution cleansing TX-Active (Titanium Dioxide) integrated white panels which also reflect light

onto the Solyndra Solar rod arrays encasing the kinetic pods. The Solyndra capture direct, diffused

and reflected sunlight across 360-degree photovoltaic surfaces. Depending on climatic variation, it

opens promoting cooling and the rod-system induces ventilation and views, it closes for protection,

insulation and energy saving.

Once diminished, users rejuvenate and support a healthy society. The shimmering tower acts as a

beacon of hope to its parent city; a vertical rehab sanctuary.

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HELIOS REHAB SANCTUARY [Solar + Healing]

Within an ethereal rehabilitating tower, shades of society gather forming communities of hope.Occupants are treated with supported clean peaceful living. The tower, vertically zoned, focuses on healing the BODY (lower), MIND (mid-section) and SPIRIT (high).

Truly sustainable cities should focus on the economy of resources but also the health of the people. read more

Oct 12, 20090

Map of the Day: Fifty Years of Exploration

The first attempts to reach Mars (1960) and Venus (1961) failed, yet triumph followed quickly. Of the nearly 200 solar, lunar, and interplanetary missions depicted on this map, most have been Earth’s closest neighbors. As rocketry, navigation, and imaging have become ever more capable and reliable, the planets and many of their moons have been examined in detail. The New Horizons mission to Pluto is under way, as is the MESSENGER mission to Mercury. Others not yet launched, perhaps not yet dreamed, await.

Art by Sean McNaughton, National Geographic Staff; Samuel Velasco, 5W Info-graphics. Sources: NASA; Chris Gamble. Sun, asteroid, and comet images: NASN/JPL via National Geographic read more

Sep 25, 20090

Penn State Solar Decathlon & Solyndra Solar PV Tubes

Here is a close look at the competition entry by Penn State University for the Solar Decathlon, as well as a video of the Solar PV technology developed by Solyndra that was integrated into the scheme.

Sep 18, 20090

Image of the Day:Sun-Earth

Nov 23, 20080

core.profile: Alan Jaras

Alan Jaras, born and living in the North West of England, has always been fascinated in visualizing the invisible. Now retired after a long career as an industrial research scientist and photomicrographer working in optical and electron microscopy to investigate the world of materials science, he now enters the strange and wonderful world of the refraction patterns of light. read more

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