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Seawater helps heat buildings, printed reefs invite observation, and an electric vehicle learns from Antarctica. A small place can contribute at very different scales.
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MONACO / ENERGY & CLIMATEStart with Monaco’s Seawater Energy.
Monaco’s Seawater Energy
The sea can heat a neighbourhood.
Monaco uses seawater as a thermal resource for heating and cooling, connecting coastal geography with the everyday needs of buildings.
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Travel & movementDocumented stage: Implemented
Venturi AntarcticaAntarctica becomes the testing ground.
A tracked electric vehicle designed in Monaco went to Antarctica—and the conditions it encountered changed the design.
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Food & natureDocumented stage: Pilot
Larvotto Printed ReefsDesign a surface that marine life can occupy.
At Larvotto, 3D-printed artificial reefs became a long-term experiment in habitat geometry and biological colonisation.
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