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Manipulating Positive Energy


We all have a dream of enjoying the privacy and luxury of our own home, but today’s houses are different, homes made up of one source: Energy. Our topic is about the green house, which was manufactured in «Fab Lab» in Barcelona, and designed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture in Catalonia.

Fab Lab is a creative idea that has gained global success, originating from the University of Massachusetts in the United States and has branches in more than a hundred cities spread over the world, with one of those branches being in our very own Jeddah at the Dallah headquarters. Fab Lab provides all the elements of a workshop with all the facilities and equipment necessary to develop, fabricate and manufacture prototypes, products and inventions of artists, designers and anyone with a great idea and is passionate about making it materialize. All these services are provided as a beautiful token to the Saudi society, which ought to elevate itself by coming together and interacting each according to his ability, field and knowledge. It›s a gesture worth mentioning as it encourages invention, development and innovation leaving no space for copying...

Fab Lab’s green house is oval shaped, made entirely of wood. With solar panel roofing, that generates three times the energy consumed by the house. The pur pose of the house dictated its design; the intention was to achieve long term self-reliance. The house is supplied with smart home systems that monitor and control the temperature and energy use, resulting in increased efficiency and reduced power consumption. Underneath the green house is a garden to grow food and incorporated in the ceiling design is a photosensitive film with the purpose of collecting rainwater to complete selfsufficiency of the Green House.

This is one aspect to the pursuit of perfection, and perfection is an attribute of God, of course, God asks us to look around to realize the greatness of perfection in his creations and is there a finer example than the universe and whenever we use the universes positives to serve and elevate mankind, this way we push the wheel of social development and eve if it was only a 0.1 on the Richter scale. Allah will never change the condition of a people until they change it themselves. And if we agree to all be responsible for the social duty to reach glory «it must begin with each and every one of us inevitably,» and then change may happen.

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