Brooks + Scarpa principals Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa explain their concept for a public pavilion that could harness energy from lightning in our penultimate P.O.D.System Architecture movie.
Los Angeles- and Florida-based architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a conceptual energy-harvesting pavilion for P.O.D.System Architecture ? a collaboration between Dezeen and adidas Originals.
Called Vortex Generator, Brooks + Scarpa's proposed structure merges a public pavilion with a renewable energy power plant, and is intended to capture energy from the sun as well as lightning storms.
The Vortex Generator concept by Brooks + Scarpa merges a public pavilion with a renewable energy power plant
The P.O.D.System Architecture project calls on Los Angeles-based architects to create conceptual buildings based on the story behind adidas' recently launched P.O.D.System shoe, which combines three different shock-absorbing technologies into a single sneaker. "We wanted our building to relate to adidas' tagline for the P.O.D.System shoe: Great alone, better together," Brooks explains in the movie, which Dezeen filmed in Los Angeles.
"So we combined spaces that are traditionally never put together ? a public pavilion and an energy substation."
Vortex Generator features both solar panels and lightning rods on the top
Envisioned for Sarasota Bay, Florida, where hot sun and intense lightning storms are commonplace, the conceptual pavilion features a huge, spiral...