The Spanish island of Tenerife will soon be known as the first bioclimatic holiday village in the world, where each of the 25 energy self-sufficient houses has been built in individual designs utilizing different technologies, where it will function as a living experiment in sustainability. The house itself will not only serve as a temporary shelter for tourists, but it will also double up as science laboratories, thanks to a slew of sensors which constantly feed back information on their temperature, humidity and air movement in order to determine which techniques are the most efficient. Just in case your geography isn’t up to snuff, Tenerife is in the Canary Islands, situated around 800 miles from mainland Spain and 185 miles from the coast of Africa. It took around 15 years of development to realize this dream, where the entire cost has touched a whopping €10 million (US$13 million), where the houses will be fit and raring to go in time for winter.
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