Renewable Cities LAGI
Renewable Cities LAGI
Renewable Cities LAGI
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Thomas hoepker
Bruno Barbey
VIEw oF INDUSTRIAL PLANT IN ESPENhAIN
ThERMAL PowER PLANT wITh RICE FIELDS
EAST GERMANY
hADoNG, SoUTh KoREA
1998
2007
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Airman 1st Class Nadine Y. Barclay henning Leweke
VIEw oF US AIRFoRCE SoLAR INSTALLATIoN TEhAChAPI wIND FARM, CALIFoRNIA, USA
2007 2001
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PUBLIC
ART + RENEWABLE
ENERGY + LIVING
BUILDINGS
AND CITIES
+ INTEGRATED
SYSTEMS
The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative is to design and construct
public art installations that uniquely combine aesthetics with utility
scale clean energy generation. The works will serve to inspire and
educate while they provide renewable power to thousands of homes
around the world.
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LAGI has held three free and international design
competitions in partnership with private & public
entities. There is now a portfolio of over 600 submissions
representing more than 60 countries.
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DUBAI & ABU DHABI
LAGI 2010
COPENHAGEN
LAGI 2014
SANTA MONICA
LAGI 2016
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The design brief for the LAGI design
competition contains the following
baseline requirements:
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LAGI 2016 Partners + Team LAGI 2016: Southern California
The City of Santa Monica Interdisciplinary teams will be invited to design their ideas for large-scale
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JANUARY 1 LAGI 2016 competition opens
LAGI
2016
southern california
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Each competition has a group of 12–15 jurors who represent the interdisciplinary
nature of the competition. LAGI jurors have include experts such as:
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crystalline and thin-film
flat panel solar cells
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Examples of polycrystalline solar panels
Images from Wikipedia
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ENERGY DUCK
TEAM: Paolo Venturella, Alessandro Balducci, Gilberto Bonelli, Rocco Valantines, Mario Emanuele Salini, Pietro Bodria
LOCATION: Paris, France
TECHNOLOGIES: thin film photovoltaic
ANNUAL CAPACITY: 10,000 MWh
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HELIOFIELD
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Solar Cells – Emerald
All figures are averages, all figures +/- 3 %. Cell class measurement at VFIX = 500 mV.
Subject to technical changes, as at Stand 04/2009
2/4 Copyright: Sunways AG · Photovoltaic Technology · Macairestraße 3 - 5 · D - 78467 Konstanz. SD310512A version 04/09 EN
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SOLAR ECO SYSTEM
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organic thin films and
dye sensitized solar cells
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Image courtesy of Belectric OPV (SolarteTM) Image courtesy of Heliatek
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell table by Marjan van Aubel Image courtesy of Belectric OPV (SolarteTM)
(collaboration with Solaronix) (functinal solar piece from their SL1 Garden Lamp)
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BEYOND THE WAVE
TEAM: Jaesik Lim, Ahyoung Lee, Sunpil Choi, Dohyoung Kim, Hoeyoung Jung, Jaeyeol Kim, Hansaem Kim
LOCATION: Seoul, South Korea
TECHNOLOGIES: organic thin film
ANNUAL CAPACITY: 4,229 MWh
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LIGHT SANCTUARY: AN EMPOWERED LANDSCAPE FOR THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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Beam-down point-focus CSP heliostat array at Masdar
Image courtesy of Lens Online from an interview with Marwan Basem Mokhtar
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TEAM: Santiago Muros Cortés
THE SOLAR HOURGLASS
LOCATION: Buenos Aires, Argentina
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES: concentrated solar power (thermal beam-down tower with heliostats)
ANNUAL CAPACITY: 7,500 MWh
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omni directional solar
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Sphelar Power Corporation
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PV DUST
TEAM: George Legendre, Emanuele Mattutini, Jean-Aime Shu, & Alfonso Senatore
LOCATION: United Kingdom
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY: Sphelar®
ANNUAL CAPACITY: 50,000 megawatt-hours
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S FLOW
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Ducted Wind Turbines
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FRESH HILLS
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WindNest: Pittsburgh Powered by Art
Original design for LAGI 2010
TEAM: Suprafutures
LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA USA
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY: compact acceleration wind turbine, thin film solar
ANNUAL CAPACITY: 30 MWh
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ORGANIC THIN FILM SOLAR PROTECTIVE BIRD NETTING
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WindNest Project Team
Trevor Lee, Suprafutures
(Design Lead)
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
(Site Partner)
Greg Kitko, GTK Flow Analysis
(CFD and Prototype Testing)
Jean-Pierre Chakar, Buro Happold
(Schematic Structural and Performance)
Greg Reed, PhD, Swanson School of Engineering
at the University of Pittsburgh
(DC Power Electronics)
William Rost, Mascaro Construction
(Design Build Contractor)
Hal Hilbish, Hilbish McGee
(Lighting Consultant)
Clyde Ross, C & C Tooling
(Prototype Development)
Chris Williams, Steeltown Design
(Prototype Development)
Jonathan Mrockosky, Air Turbine
(Prototype Testing)
Heinz Endowments (Funding)
Hillman Foundation (Funding)
Horne Family Foundation (Funding)
National Endowment for the Arts (Funding)
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piezoelectric stacked and
linear alternator generators
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Piezoelectric disks and stacked actuators
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WINDSTALK
TEAM: Concept and Design Atelier dna: Darío Núñez Ameni & Thomas Siegl; Narrative and Poetics Gabrielle Jesiolowski; Structure and
Engineering; ISSE Innovative Structural and Specialty Engineering: Radhi Majmudar PE; Ecology and Renewable Energy Strategy eDesign
Dynamics: Ian Lipsky
LOCATION: New York City
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY: piezoelectric discs, linear alternator
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hydraulic pistons and Wells turbines
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AETHERIUS
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OSCILLATING PLATFORMS
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Oscillating Water Column uses Wells Type Turbine that
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shared resource wind+solar
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BLOSSOMINGS
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cooperative energy installation
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100*100*100 WIND TOWER
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bio
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GRID SLIDE
TEAM: Morten Rask Madsen, Julie Trier Brøgger, Julie Rindung, Natalia Guerrero Gutiérrez, Artis Kurps, Kevin Bailey, Søren Laurentius
Nielsen, Per Møller, Jesper Ahrenfeldt, Tobias Thomsen
LOCATION: Copenhagen, Denmark
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY: algae biofuel
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GOLDEN ROOTS
world through community outreach and online presence (where visitors can browse through blog entries
In 2010, the Land Art Generator Initiative
held its first international design competition
to explore the various facets of renewable
energy’s beauty. Artists, architects, engineers
and scientists from around the world worked
together to design power plants that would
NEW Copenhagen
ENERGIES
brings together creative minds from around the world in a collective effort to challenge our
preconceptions of what renewable energy generation looks like. The Land Art Generator
Copenhagen
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Initiative, or LAGI, was created to encourage the design and construction of public art
installations that have the added benefit of utility-scale clean energy generation.
Sixty-four of the LAGI Copenhagen competition entries are profiled in this book
through detailed spreads that include renderings, illustrations, and diagrams. Seven essays
explore the role of creativity in the conception of new energy landscapes and provide
insights into sustainable infrastructure innovations in Denmark. New Energies provides a
much-needed case study on how we can transform our urban brownfields into aesthetic Land Art Generator Initiative
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and functional destinations that power hundreds of homes while providing places for
recreation and contemplation within our urban environments.
EDITED BY
Robert Ferry
Elizabeth Monoian
• Foundations
• Crowd-sourcing (cooperative installations)
• City, provincial, and national public funds earmarked for arts and/
or the environment
The capacity of public artwork (especially large-scale and high profile
works) to increase economic activity is well documented
And now imagine that this work of art educates hundreds of visitors every
day about the technology that it employs, while contributing clean energy
NYC Waterfalls to the electrical grid equivalent to the energy consumed by hundreds or
Olafur Eliasson
even thousands of homes. It may be that sustainable cities of the future
will seize on the opportunity and efficiency that may come from the
fusion of renewable energy infrastructure and public art amenity.
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Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, (former) CEO of Masdar
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