Algae-Powered Apartment Complex Blooms In Hamburg

BIQ House, a 15-unit net-zero energy apartment complex clad with an algae-filled bio-adaptive shell, is completed in Hamburg, Germany, as part of the International Building Exhibition.

As the world's first building powered by algae, the 15-unit Bio Intelligent Quotient House generates biomass and heat with the assistance of 129 integrated glass bioreactor panels covering approximately 2,150 square feet of the four-story structure's southeast and southwest facing sides.