Which would you choose if you had to choose between saving the planet Earth and landing on Mars? Will you be willing to make changes in your daily life in order to save a rainforest? Isn't this a conundrum? This is also one of the many ways that Terra, Dubai Expo 2020's Sustainability Pavilion, wants to inspire tourists to understand their interaction with the world. Terra Pavilion, designed by Grimshaw Architects of the United Kingdom, boasts a huge canopy studded with over 1000 solar panels. These contain a huge amount of energy, enough to fuel a car halfway to Mars! Terra is at the forefront of futuristic science, with 18 energy trees that rotate and collect energy from the sun's direction. It is expected to receive LEED Platinum certification, which is the highest level of certification for environmentally friendly architecture. Not only that, but Terra aspires to be a Net Zero Energy and Net Zero Water plant, rendering it a fully self-sufficient structure in the ...
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