Traditional Terracotta Roof That Happens to Harness the Sun
There are plenty of technical hurdles keeping the masses from decking out their roofs withsolar panels, but their general ugliness doesn't help much either. Tegolasolare puts their photovoltaic panels second to the surrounding architecture, not the other way around.
The Italian company's red clay roof tiles look just like traditional terracotta and incorporatephotovoltaic panels, as opposed to merely accommodating them. It's a perfect example of how forward-looking, sustainable technology can exist in harmony with traditional architecture.
Of course, lose the drab solar roof look and you lose your eco-savvy neighbor visibility along with it, and really, what fun is having an Earth-saving roof if it looks just like your regular old one?
Todays society care too much about physical appearance. Just plaster your house with solar panels for the sake of humanity instead of worrying about how awesome your roof looks.
27 comments:
Great eco friendly idea, hopefully more ideas like this will pop up.
innovation :)
its very nice
Brilliant. Seriously, I'd love to implement this design into my own home one day.
carbon footprint? what carbon footprint??
neat stuff
never see stuff like this in north america
unless you live on the never winter'ed coast.
This would make day to day life easier and in the case of a powercut it'll be ok (so long as its during the day)
everyone needs those!
Todays society care too much about physical appearance. Just plaster your house with solar panels for the sake of humanity instead of worrying about how awesome your roof looks.
Thats pretty cool
would love to have something like that
Hey that actually looks pretty good
That's nice. Better than some of the eyesores I've seen installed in the US.
The look of these is genuinly impressive.
ah yes, you make a good point. Why help keep the environment healthy if you can't act like a hero in front of all your neighbors.
cool idea!
Brilliant!
Thats just brilliant! If people would use that, and it'd be cheaper.. how a wonderful world that would be :)
My dream house is eco-friendly so I may have to get some of these!
more green roofs. we need more Italian inventors here in the united states making this stuff. would help me on my energy bills
What a great way to combine aesthetics and environmentally friendly technology!
i like the last sentence. what's the point of being green if people aren't even aware of it? so cynical, so true.
that's pretty cool
That's very nice... But I already have solar panels.
Brilliant! I want these for my house
I like that. You can't even notice
Good post, I think that terracotta is really underrated, even if it's old it's still good.
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