Image: Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Parisian firm Vincent Callebaut Architectures has designed an energy-positive plan to restore Notre Dame cathedral, which was badly damaged in a fire last month.
Vincent Callebaut’s “Palingenesis” project envisages combining the cathedral’s stone nave, roof and spire in a continuous structure.
Image: Vincent Callebaut Architectures
The building would have a frame made from cross-laminated timber beams and pre-stressed carbon-fibre slats, which would hold stained glass. The glass itself would contain a layer of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen to absorb light and transforms it into energy, which would then be stored in hydrogen fuel cells.
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