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restaurant, Dubai informing of strategies, i.e. from the iridophores cells were studied imitated and
implemented as a light shelf, from the non-photosynthetic pigments to a double glazed glass and
from the photosynthetic pigments to photovoltaic cells. The reason behind imitating the Tridacna
Gigas life mechanism was to improve the café thermal performance.
Furthermore, with these lessons learned and strategies derived from, we were able to provide
thermal comfort as well as energy efficiency in the building. The results achieved were with the
help of the lessons learned; the iridophores cells reduced the amount of light entering the space
to 48% on using the light shelf, the non-photosynthetic pigment’s reduced the amount of heat
entering the building by 53% on using the double glazed glass, and finally the photosynthesis
pigments reduced the electric energy by 4.25% on using the photovoltaic cells.

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