This tree doesn’t need water and soil to grow. What it needs is the solar energy from sunlight. The solar tree is the solar-powered street lighting, which is the masterpiece of the great team-up of designer, Ross Lovegrove, Artemide and Sharp Solar. The solar tree is used to light up the Ringstrasse outside Vienna’s Museum for Angewandte Kunste, which is a museum for Applied Arts and Contemporary Art. More pics after the jump!
The statement from Lovegrove Studio tells that the Solar Trees “communicate more than light… they communicate the trust of placing beautifully made, complex natural forms outside for the benefit of all of society becoming a museum that if folded inside out, the museum as an incubator of change in society… and with this the promotion of environmental science and the joy of the new aesthetics made possible by the digital process.
Since it’s a solar-powered street light, my guess is as long as it’s been exposed to significant amount of sunlight during daytime then it’ll be able to shine you through the cold nights. These trees will be switched on only from October 8 onwards
via [GizmoDo]
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