It's called the BIQ House and it features an impressive bio-adaptive algae facade that controls day lighting while generating a steady stream of renewable energy.

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About 93 percent of 3, 040 large U.S. hospitals used one or more day lighting or lighting conservation features, including tinted window glass (80 percent), reflective window glass (39 percent), external overhangs or awnings (47 percent), skylights or atriums designed to provide light (57 percent), automatic controls or sensors that increase or reduce lighting in response to the level of natural light (14 percent), and occupancy sensors that reduce lighting when rooms are unoccupied (46 percent).

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Lighting changes over the course of the day to keep the focus on the outdoors.

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The lettering will appear dark during the day, and by night will glow, with lighting hidden below the panels.

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So is an electrotransparent glass roof that allows passengers to control the amount of sunlight entering the cabin during the day, or, at night, to adjust the ambient lighting.

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It is true, though, that the spread of electric lighting means many people eat their main meal of the day in the evening, when natural daylight is long gone the obverse of a mouse eating during daylight hours.

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One of the highlights of the week will be a three day competition between design schools from France and the USA to create prototype lighting designs, using 3D printing as an in situ maker technology.

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But on launch day it all comes down to the uncontrollable forces of nature: clouds, rain, lighting and vultures.

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