[Peter Livings]

The google project I was looking at was the ‘googleplex headquaters’ in California, which was built on a brownfield site. It was mainly the principle of having landscape integrated PV rather than just building integrated PV which we could apply different urban situations.

It was interesting to hear about the impact of the Mojave Desert project though. Was there any resolution of the problems? It would be good to know whether that was a case of wrong location or poor research because there are a huge number of other large scale desert arrays planned.

The paint was on a program( ‘visions for the future’ I think ) and the example they gave was coating the corrugated iron shacks in some developing countries to help run water cleaning equipment.

[Peter Livings]

 

Hi,

This is something I am looking to write my dissertation on. I have only just started researching the topic but I have seen a few examples that could be relevant. 

I saw the project in Topos too which really sparked my interest. It’s called  ‘greeting to the sun’  and is in Zadar, Croatia. 

http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9541/1/Spectacular-Monument-to-The-Sun-in-the-city-of-Zadar-by-Nikola-Baiae.html (images and video)

http://www.culturenet.hr/default.aspx?id=22880 (interview)

The shelter drawings look really good. I have seen some good articles on using PV on shelters and car parks. You get the benefit of making the land dual-use and also providing shade. The google Solar project in California used the same principle to generate around 10% of the energy needs (30% from solar overall if you include rooftop installations).

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/google_ends_sea.php

Could be interesting for the next generation of electric cars?

Another few interesting examples are:

Sarah Hall works with photovoltaics and stained glass which looks preety good lighting the Regent college campus: http://www.solaripedia.com/files/504.pdf

And

Parc del Forum in Barcelona http://www.pvdatabase.org/projects_view_details.php?ID=277 (the PV database is pretty usefull for other examples but mostly about building integrated PVs)

Hope that helps, I had just started another thread on here looking for inspiration of my own if anyone has any thoughts (http://land8lounge.com/forum/topics/photovoltaics-in-the-urban)

Thanks

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