Randomly Placed Solar Panels, Green Second Skin Give Stunning Look To Hotel In Chile

Photos: GEN Hotel. Designed as an apartment venue and later turned into a hotel, GEN is a 26-storey building designed by Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido located in Santiago de Chile with the usual green credentials but with two cool details: distributed energy generation with individual solar panels exposed to the front, and a second skin made with recycled aluzinc that acts as a temperature and shading control…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Randomly Placed Solar Panels, Green Second Skin Give Stunning Look To Hotel In Chile

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