Perched 17 m above the Bordeaux ring road, in Gironde, photovoltaic panels create a shade under which traffic noise is reduced thanks to sound traps.
No need to use windshield wipers on rainy days, rainwater is collected without flooding the road, to water the surrounding green spaces and guard against fire risks.
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This 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”, summarizes the spokesperson for the urban planners-engineers who have been working on the project “which combines carbon neutrality and energy independence” for ten years. .
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