Pauline van Dongen's Solar-Powered Heliotex Textile Forms Umbra Pavilion at Dutch Design Week
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Jane Englefield
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Summary
Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created the Umbra Pavilion for Dutch Design Week, featuring a kite-like canopy made from her innovative Heliotex textile that generates solar energy. The pavilion serves as a shaded gathering space while demonstrating the integration of renewable energy technology into architectural design. The Heliotex material combines flexible solar cells with textiles to create a functional, energy-generating fabric that can be used in various applications beyond traditional architecture.
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· 3 pulledFashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created a flexible, solar-energy-generating textile called Heliotex, which forms the canopy of her Dutch Design Week pavilion.
The architectural installation is defined by its sky blue kite-like canopy, formed from Heliotex material.
Umbra Pavilion is currently on display in Eindhoven's Strijp-S district as part of the city-wide Dutch Design Week.
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