Never seen before in France: Bordeaux will test a solar panel shade over 1.5 km of boulevard. The equipment, also capable of collecting rainwater and filtering fine particles from cars, will soon be tested on site.

The project could have come from the imagination of Schuiten and Peeters, comic book authors known for their fantasy and futuristic cities. And yet, “everything already exists, the shade house condenses several inventions to offer a global response to climate change”