Energira: the Children’s Game that Generates Energy through Rotation

Abstract

With the imminent need to incorporate sustainability to the field of architecture, the design of small-scale sustainable projects are just as important as those at the urban level to bring about change in groups of people and communities, since we would all benefit from a positive change in our ecological footprint over time. This article presents Energira: que merry-goround children´s game capable of lluminating its surroundings by generating energy though the movement of rotation. This was designed and built by a group of architecture students and donated to a girls’ home in San Juan de Lurigancho.