Concept design Strawscraper uses piezoelectric technology to power itself

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Concept design Strawscraper uses piezoelectric technology
to power itself.

By Leah Gonzalez
PSFK.com
Friday, May 17, 2013

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Architecture firm Belatchew Arkitekter�has developed a
concept design for a sustainable skyscraper that uses
piezoelectricity to power itself. The Strawscraper, which
the firm has dubbed �an urban power plant,� is an
extension of Stockholm high rise�S�der Torn, with a new
shell that produces energy via straws or piezoelectric
fibers.

Piezoelectricity or the piezoelectric effect refers to
the ability of some solid materials to generate an
electric charge as a response to mechanical stress or
vibration. The Strawscraper uses piezoelectric technology
to harness power from wind energy. The straws covering
the building can produce electricity through the
movements generated by the wind.

Completed in 1997, the�S�der Torn has 26 stories instead
of the original plan of forty. �Belatchew Arkitekter
plans to extend the building to its originally-planned
proportions and at the same time incorporate their plans
of creating an �urban power plant� of the future by
covering the extension and the existing surfaces of the
building with the piezoelectric fibers.

Aside from its energy producing factor, the straws also
give the building an added aesthetic. According to the
project page on the firm�s website, the movement of the
straws makes the building look alive and appears to be
breathing.

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More at:

http://www.psfk.com/2013/05/hair-covered-skyscraper.html

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