AIS, Blossomings - Short listed Winning Finalist
Blossomings, Land Art Generator Initiative 2012
Architecture i.S - Short listed Winning Finalist
The main goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is to design and construct public art installations that have the added benefit of utility-scale clean energy generation. Each sculpture will continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid, with each having the potential to provide power to thousands of homes.
Presenting the power plant as public artwork - simultaneously enhancing the environment, increasing livability, providing a venue for learning, and stimulating local economic development - is a way to address a variety of issues from the perspective of the ecologically. By nature of its functional utility, the work also sets itself into many other overlapping disciplines from architecture and urban design to mechanical engineering and environmental science.
As a flower opens up to receive the sun, 'Blossomings' opens up to harness photovoltaic energy during the day. In the evening a flower closes up. Likewise as sun energy disappears, 'Blossomings' closes up to function as vertical wind turbine, converting wind energy into power output. It is a simple process yet and intuition of nature. Its harmonious behavior assimilates to nature's occurrence to bridge the gap between desire for renewable future and community level negative reaction to the scientific and mechanical outlook of renewable fixtures. Sustainability should be about harmony between nature, habitants and man-made fixtures in balance with the ecosystem.
Publication: Regenerative Infrastructures, 240 pages with 250 illustrations; Hardcover, 11 x 9 in. / 28 x 23 cm; ISBN 978-3-7913-5286-2; Publication date: May 2013
Exhibition: Soho Digital Art Gallery, Arsenal Gallery (NYC Parks), Solarworks partnership Dubai
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