Featured in Solar America – 06-2010

Electricity in a snakeskin jacket

Building integration: Photovoltaics on stadium roofs is becoming a more familiar sight. If you want to see a megawatt-capacity photovoltaic array though, thats a genuine structural component of a newly built stadium and supplies all of its electricity, the first port of call is Taiwan.

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pv magazine

07 Sep 2010

A flying dragon, a snake encircling its prey, or a watercourse – the stadium in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, can evoke a variety of associations in a viewer. It forms a closed mass when seen from afar, but seems to change shape constantly as you approach. Curved concrete arches strung together resemble the spinal vertebrae of …

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