Here ’s the National Aquatics Center in Beijing , which is now almost polish off . Although the bubble in this mammoth Water Cube look like they are made of jelly fishes , they really expend “ two bed of a eminent - performance plastic film shout out ethylene tetrafluoroethylene or ETFE . ” Mmmmmm’kay . So really , what do the jelly fish do ?
The computing machine - give duple - layer purpose depart an empty space in the middle of each bubble , which is used to warm or cool the edifice with a very ingenious method acting : the compressor pull spicy air out of the bubbles , warmed by the sun , to heat the interior of the building . When they need to cool it down , the system take air from the ground floor and out of the building , through exhaust port on the cap ( insert Death Star joke here ) . This kind of social system is also more immune to quake , which is a asset in the seismic - shake Beijing .
picture gallery – Watercube[Wired ]
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