Night view of ANTI-SMOG’s Solar Drop and Wind Tower

This may look like a cross between movie sets for Star Trek and The Hobbit, but for me this design works. The Anti-Smog Innovation Centre for Sustainable Development perched over Paris’ canal de l’Ourcq the building promises to be “auto-sufficient”, which sounds like it may be a zero energy building.

法国青年建筑师Vincent Callebaut 设计了Anti-Smog：Innovation Centre for Sustainable Development，这一建筑被视为是零能耗建筑。

The Anti-Smog building features green roofs and 250 square meters of photovoltaic panels.

Anti-Smog的显著特征是其绿色屋顶和250平方米的光电板。

Anti-Smog Center Brings Cleaner Air To Paris

Some of you may remember a series of posts [listed below] we featured here on Vincent Callebaut Architectures back in March of 2007, where we covered a number of the young designer’s projects - showcasing his incredible renderings and unique/individual architectural aesthetic. We here at MNP recently received an email from Vincent Callebaut informing us that his site has been updated - and linking to the most recent project: ANTI-SMOG [An Innovation Centre in Sustainable Development in Paris].

Interior view of ANTI-SMOG’s Solar Drop

Callebaut describes Anti-Smog as a ‘parasite‘, attaching itself to the ‘post-industrial urban structure of the Petite Ceinture and the canal de l’Ourcq in the 19th Parisian district’. In response to the pollution [smog] in Paris, and the industrial area’s contribution to this problem, Anti-Smog is a ‘green’ project - promoting sustainable design + development through its use of green technologies and building techniques.

Solar Drop and Wind Tower model

In this case the ‘green’ technologies are not simply an attempt to sustain this one building alone, but instead to actually ‘de-pollute’ the Parisian environment. Quite the task to accomplish - but how?

在这个案例中，绿色技术并不仅仅试图去维持这一栋建筑，而是去改善整个巴黎环境。

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