A stunning solar farm art installation located in the heart of the United Arab Emirates is the focus of a new design concept by America artists Martina Decker and Peter Yeadon. Designed to evoke natural landscape formations of desert, coastline, sand and water, the Light Sanctuary features more than 40km (24.9 miles) of thin 10m (32.8ft) tall solar panels that snake and undulate across more than 40 hectares (0.4sq.km, 0.15sq.miles) of desert sands.
“The project is a sea of ribbons, incorporating photovoltaic technology, touching lightly on the land, reaching out toward the water’s edge at the Ras Al Khor site in Dubai,” explains the designers’ website.
Utilizing ultra-thin solar cells with that will operate with a steep angle of solar exposure and high desert temperatures, the Light Sanctuary solar farm art installation will produce 4592 megawatt hours (16530 gigajoules) annually from the 80,000sq.m (19.8 acres, 861,000sq.ft) of solar cells.
Visit: http://www.deckeryeadon.com/
Via Inhabitat
written by Tom Kacandes , August 17, 2010
Show/Hide comment form
written by Susan , August 14, 2010