Environment

Water Building resort is far more than a drop in the ocean

View 11 Images
The eye-catching Water Building resort will use solar and air power to make clean drinking water
The eye-catching Water Building
The Water Building
An architectural feat that not only looks good, it is also environmentally friendly
Birds-eye view of the Water Building resort
The Water Building resort will harness energy from the sun and air
The floor plan of the Water Building resort
The mechanics of the Water Building resort
The eye-catching Water Building resort
The eye-catching Water Building resort will use solar and air power to make clean drinking water
View gallery - 11 images

Given some of the intriguing and unusual eco-friendly resort concepts we've seen of late, a luxury hotel in the shape of an enormous drop of water that's designed to convert air into drinking water with the assistance of solar power should come as no surprise.

The Water Building resort is not only architecturally stunning, its designers hope it will be the first building in the world capable of converting air into pure water using an innovative generator and solar power. The facade of the building is designed to face the sun and is covered in photovoltaic glass, which not only lets light in but also effectively captures the sun's rays to be converted into solar power. The opposite side of the building uses a latticed design for ventilation and the air is also harnessed to produce fresh water using a unique generator – the TeexMicron.

The TeexMicron generator is designed to work in warm, humid climates with an ideal temperature range of 20 to 40 degrees (68 to 104 F) and humidity of 30 to 95 percent.The new technology behind the TeexMicron generator allows it to use ocean air condensation and evaporation.

Tying in with the water theme, the building will also feature an indoor and outdoor aquarium, spa and wharf. The base of the building will house a water tank, a filter system and a desalination plant to purify salt water.

Other more standard features will include hotel and meeting rooms, restaurant and exhibition hall. It’s certainly a futuristic concept but if this resort does all it promises to do, it could have some say on building designs of the future.

Via Inhabitat via Orlando de Urrutia.

View gallery - 11 images
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Flipboard
  • LinkedIn
1 comment
Gargamoth
It\'s amazing to me how a poor country with a few billionaires who care about where they live can make so many Beautiful things, but my home U.S.A. is infested with thieveing politicians and with them pot holes, hmo\'s and an over priced freedom tower thats shorter than our last skyscaper :/ It must be the end times...