ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE BUILDING AND CONTROL SYSTEM THEREFOR

摘要

An environmentally responsive building (10) includes an array (14) of panels (15, 16) that are configured to generate an output product from environmental inputs. The panels (15, 16) include photocata lytic elements capable of generating output products from solar energy and atmospheric gases, and/or photovoltaic elements capable of generating electricity from solar energy. The building (10) includes a storage system (21). A field controller (17) is operatively associated with one or more of said plurality of panels (15, 16) to modify the generation of output product by the associated panels (15, 16). A supervisory controller (25) is configured to direct the field controller (17) in response to environmental conditions at the building (10) or to a condition of the building (10).