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Solterra Systems
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Our display is intended to show how
sustainable technologies can be elegantly integrated into
the urban environment, providing a feasible solution to the
increasing grayscape that surrounds us. By incorporating
such elements as indoor and outdoor living walls, vegetative
roofs, and solar photovoltaic arrays, anyone can increase
the quality of their life, home and environment.
Figure 1 shows the urban structure that will be built. Our
display will have two viewing levels; the surrounding
grounds and the building interior compose the bottom viewing
level. The exterior grounds will consist of an outdoor
living wall underscored by a rain garden, building exterior
decorations including a window planter and rain barrels, and
an urban façade, i.e. a sidewalk and parking strip leading
to the upper deck viewing balcony.
The interior building will showcase an interior living wall,
a sample of equipment for the solar array, and a display
wall of green roofs, living walls and solar arrays. The
center of the floor will be occupied by a sample miniature
green roof built on a dog house. Information regarding
sustainable technologies will also be presented here. Figure
2 shows the layout for these areas.
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