Featured in Keep on tracking – 12-2010

Follow the sun

Rotating solar houses: Buildings that follow the sun also follow a trend. This year, four new buildings whose roofs track the sun were built in an industrial area in the spa town of Bad Windsheim, Germany.

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pv magazine

15 Dec 2010

“Tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun,” sang the Beatles back in 1964. Today, even houses can do that. The idea isn’t new; in 1994, solar architect Rolf Disch of Freiburg, Germany, designed and built the Heliotrope, the prototype for all rotating solar buildings. These days, architects and PV nerds work on new variants. …

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