• MAYA Design develops solar-powered interactive display for world’s first ‘living’ building

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    MAYA Design has come up with a solar-powered interactive display for a “living building” under development at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. It will use a powerful computer that will give details of the environment surrounding the building, which will be used as an educational center. This low-power prototype was developed by the company by using an electronic paper display developed by Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink Corp. it hopes that the new design can engage its visitors with the kind of sustainable electronic display that is energy-intensive in conventional uses. The project is estimated to cost around $20 million and pursue standards of green design that go beyond a LEED platinum rating by the US Green Building Council.
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    Posted in Topics:Architecture, Tags: , on September 30, 2009