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The Australian Government had a great initiative which has the purpose to teach kids and pupils how important and how much we need renewable energy. Thanks to a design by Buro North, the Australian primary schools will get their solar power installations which will generate electricity and provide shade from the sun.
The Veil Solar Shades were inspired by cobra heads and they resemble with a canopy. The interactive solar power installations will harvest energy at full potential during daylight as they feature a pattern of LED lights that displays the intensity of the sun. When you notice that the intensity decreases, then you can rotate the Veils by 180 degrees in order to reach the best position to harvest solar energy.
For the design of the Veil Solar Shades, also have contributed Soren Luckins, Sarah Napier and Tom Allnutt, and their work is truly exciting for the kids because they could learn to protect more our planet and the oil dependence will soon be forgotten.
So…. why is it these award winning, highly hyped, oh-so-newsworthy designs are always ‘one-offs’? Might the story be along the lines of: “The design didn’t function and was impractical, so the remainder of the money was withheld and spent elsewhere”?
The artsy fartsy bunch only want to trump the necessary function with their ‘art’ so that the artsy side gets a win, once in a while. Ho-Hum,, this isn’t a contest, consumers want function first, then if consumers have the money, they decide which is the most functional form of art. e.g., elitism.