LO2P Skyscraper Purifies Air, Grows Food And Generates Energy (PICTURES)

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While it may look like a giant carnival ferris wheel, the LO2P: Delhi Recycling Center concept by Atelier CMJN isn't playing any games when it comes to cleaning up the city of New Dehli. The towering greenhouse is constructed out of parts of recycled cars from local junk piles and has wind turbines inside that act as a set of bio-lungs for the polluted city. While it's still just a concept, the fantastic design recently grabbed first place in this year's eVolo Skyscraper competition.

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The winners for one of our favorite architectural competitions were just announced and we couldn't be more pleased with the results as many of the skyscrapers incorporated awesome sustainable design with out of this world concepts. First place for this year's eVolo Skyscraper competition was LO2P: Delhi Recycling Center designed by Atelier CMJN led by Julien Combes, Gaël Brulé of France, and it couldn't be more fantastic. Conceived as a giant greenhouse constructed out of parts of recycled cars, the ferris wheel-like building with wind turbine inside serves as a set of super bio-lungs for polluted New Delhi.

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The winners for one of our favorite architectural competitions were just announced and we couldn't be more pleased with the results as many of the skyscrapers incorporated awesome sustainable design with out of this world concepts. First place for this year's eVolo Skyscraper competition was LO2P: Delhi Recycling Center designed by Atelier CMJN led by Julien Combes, Gaël Brulé of France, and it couldn't be more fantastic. Conceived as a giant greenhouse constructed out of parts of recycled cars, the ferris wheel-like building with wind turbine inside serves as a set of super bio-lungs for polluted New Delhi.

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[LawnSprinklerChicago]

06:18 PM on 04/13/2011

This is pretty nifty and mindblowing. Should replace the Chicago ferris wheel with this!
http://www.americannationalco.com

[mmike1969]

05:55 PM on 04/13/2011

I like it! Except I can't imagine the noise coming out from the turbine in the middle. But I am going to guess the people could stand a bit of noise in order to breathe and eat.

[PlayTOE]

02:08 PM on 03/31/2011

This building would blow down in the first storm which is why it will never get built. Impractical jokes winning contests in green design are a sure fire way to undermine the entire green movement.

A better (more realistic) idea would be a standard wind turbine and some greenhouses on the ground.

[Timothy Knight]

11:02 AM on 03/24/2011

India, Haa. They would be happy with more normal buildings. The place is a polluted dump.

[Opening Shares]

11:27 AM on 03/22/2011

Thinking big is good as long as you don't forget about the small things too. What about plants that rely on airborne pollen?

[Opening Shares]

11:18 AM on 03/22/2011

Wet blanket alert-

urg, filters. More pollution. A big blade whipping around at the speeds the tips of the set of blades of something like this has to be pretty fast, which seems to me would be a good way to generate static electricity forming the basis of a huge ionic generator, like an ionic air purifier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ioniser

I'm sorry, but they are just going to have to redesign the whole thing

[butchcliff]

07:01 AM on 03/22/2011

Innovative thinking Amazing concept

[KingLeopold]

04:12 AM on 03/22/2011

So who's going to build it?

[sasidhar79]

02:07 PM on 03/22/2011

Whoever pays the politicians will build it. It will never happen.

[cardholder]

12:34 AM on 03/22/2011

When you consider the crowded population of New Delhi and the need to provide food and also to clean the air, this stands to answer a lot of ecological challenges. Being a prototype, this gives us something to look forward to.

[French Toast]

12:23 AM on 03/22/2011

Nice design if it ever gets built.

[lacrabclaw]

11:49 PM on 03/21/2011

they should build 2...
...facing each other
...see what happens

[cvbnm67]

11:44 PM on 03/21/2011

This is the most ridiculous idea in a long list of bad ideas. How about turning the Sahara into one big solar farm? There was more energy released, off the coast of japan by the earthquake, than we could use in 1000 years. There is better ways to get energy.

[StansDad]

11:21 AM on 03/22/2011

Hey, it's better than building another oil power plant

[alteredstory]

12:32 PM on 03/22/2011

The downside of the Sahara idea is that the dunes are constantly shifting, sand could cause problems, and political turmoil in those area could make for difficulty transmitting the energy.

It's NOT a bad idea, but it's not as simple as it might appear on the face of it .

[sasidhar79]

02:09 PM on 03/22/2011

But we can turn deserts in California, Nevada,Utah and Arizona into solar farm or wind farm.

[lacrabclaw]

11:43 PM on 03/21/2011

A circular building made out of spare parts from local junk piles...
...sounds like The Little Rascals won this contest

[raoulhubris]

11:40 PM on 03/21/2011

In that one slide, did I see several hundred running humans turning that wheel?

[NateinMpls]

11:24 PM on 03/21/2011

I can only imagine the horrible whooshing sound that huge turbine will create. What about birds flying through? They'll be chopped up and everything below will be covered with blood and guts.

[noneis]

11:35 PM on 03/21/2011

I have a feeling that blades this size won't be moving fast enough to chop anything up...

[alteredstory]

12:35 PM on 03/22/2011

http://climatecrocks.com/2011/03/22/number-one-threat-to-birds-hint-its-not-wind-turbines/#more-3690

440,000 birds killed by wind turbines per year is the biggest number I can find. For comparison, here's the number killed per year by house cats: 500,000,000.

Over 1 billion born per year.

Wind turbines are not making a significant dent in bird populations.

[sasidhar79]

02:15 PM on 03/22/2011

Somebody claimed that Nuclear Energy is safer than Wind Energy because there are more chances of a broken wind turbine blade travelling a quarter of mile and decapitating all life in its path and is more destructive than a nuclear powerplant accident.