Recycled wind turbines may one day become tiny homes and floating playgrounds

From October 19 to October 27 at Dutch Design Week 2024, Vattenfall and the design studio Superuse are showcasing a roughly 393-sq-ft home built inside a retired nacelle—the topmost, steel-encased part of a wind turbine containing its generating components such as the generator itself, gearbox, brake train, and drive mechanisms. After hollowing the nacelle of its original internal parts, the team used the casing for a prototype that now features a living space, bathroom, and kitchen with amenities like solar-powered electricity and water heating, as well as a heat pump instead of encasing turbine parts.