LONDON , England ( CNN ) -- As a product designer , Agustin Otegui 's has to `` think big '' about the objects he creates . From novel portable chairs made out of shovels to chrome radiators that look like modern works of art , he recasts the mundane in a modernist and functional new light . The Nano Vent Skin forms an organic skin around a building providing its energy needs . Yet when he got thinking about how he could help with solutions to mitigate climate change he started thinking small . Very small , in fact . His futuristic concept is called the Nano Vent-Skin ( NVS ) and the design -- to wrap buildings in an organic lattice skin made up of micro wind turbines -- is radical . It 's an intriguing idea and an exciting confluence of cutting edge science and industrial design . Back in 1959 American physicist Richard Feynman famously predicted that we 'd be creating atom sized machines in the future . Today , advances in nanotechnology -- the science of impossibly small materials -- are rapid . Scientific discoveries at nanoscale -- one billionth of a meter -- are finding their way out of the lab and into production , creating more efficient computer chips and coatings for glass . It was all the big `` green '' projects around the world that got Otegui thinking about smaller solutions . Otegui told CNN : `` Instead of trying to build these huge turbines which are always getting bigger and bigger , I thought , why not do something on a small scale and use it on existing objects and buildings . I wanted to try to cover them like a crawling plants you see on facades . '' Armed with the desire to create something 100 percent organic , Otegui set about researching the possibilities . `` I found out about nanotubes and then I came across some MIT research into nano-manufacturing , '' he explained . Otegui imagines ( see photos ) merging living organisms to form a complex skin which will absorb and then utilize the energy created by the sun and wind . Solar power is harvested through an organic photovoltaic skin which then transfers the energy to nano-fibres located inside nano-wires . The power is then sent to storage units located at the end of each panel . In addition the turbine blades -- which Otegui envisages to be 25 millimeters in length and 10 millimeters wide -- absorb CO2 . He says that on rough calculations each turbine would produce 0.2 watts of energy and a square meter grid of turbines could produce around 90 watts of power . Designs incorporating nanotechnology are a far cry from Otegui 's day job which has seen him employed in the design departments of car industry giants like BMW , Citroen and Fiat -- working on the grill and wing mirrors of the new 500 ( Cinquecento ) -- in recent years . His spare time is taken up by designing anything from external storage units -- `` the urban shell '' -- to multi-use stools and sandals . His dedication has already been rewarded in the shape of awards and exhibitions in London , Barcelona and Milan . The NVS looks set to go the same way with interested parties already contacting Otegui to find out more . There are some controversial branches of nanoscience but Otegui is keen to stress that his take on nanotechnology is n't . `` These micro organisms will not been genetically altered , '' he said . `` They will work as a trained colony where each member has a specific task in the symbiotic process . '' He says he 's not trying to reinvent or reshape the future . `` It 's just acting as a merger of different means and approaches into energy absorption and transformation , which will never happen in nature , '' he said . Otegui concedes that implementation of nano-manufacturing of this type is still years away . `` Even in 10 or 15 years it wont be accessible to everyone , but people will hopefully be developing materials , '' he said . Nevertherless , the NVS offers up a glimpse of the future , where energy might just be greener than anyone could have possibly imagined .
Mexican organic product designer creates a radical concept for tackling climate change . The Nano Vent Skin would utilize nanotechnology to create organic wind turbines . Energy from the sun would also be used through organic photovoltaic cells .