DESIGN STUDIO: AIR

ILHYEON (MICHAEL) YEO583928

Semester 1, 2014

CONTENTS

Part A

DESIGN FUTURING - Precent of previous LAGI project

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH-Solar energy

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The Maple Leaf by Phil Choo, Chulho Yang, Seung Ra, Sung- Yeoul Lee, maybe not be the most polished and refined project but it had some intriguing ideas that in my opinion, would be helpful to my project for air studio.

This design is carefully approached with consideration of its existing structure, the gas extraction wells and its surrounding nature, which forms a interaction between man made and nature, where in my opinion, it is like an “organic architecture” which brings harmony and unity to the building and the nature as one.

PART ADESIGN FUTURINGPRECEDENT OF PREVIOUS LAGI PROJECT

The general concept of this design is to consider whole function as like a “plant”, such that plant undergoes photosynthetic process from solar energy which is in benefit of reducing carbon dioxide and increasing oxygen. Similarly, for this design, a renewable source of solar energy were chosen to produce electricty and distribute to electrical grid. It uses “uni solar PVL” which allow flexbility, light weighted which provides possible realisation of the design and is energy efficient where it produces about 130 kWh per year.

Furthermore, it also employs methane gas that is produced on site where the efficiency is nearly twice as much as the solar panel. This connects back to its original idea of “plant” where this is process of using “unnessary” to utilise it as a positive aspect and producing electricity, enriching sustainablity.

In my opinion the real success for this design is going beyond what is given, where this design does not stop on the “aesthetic” view, but takes step forward and making the place interactive where users are able to access the highest point of the design and be entertained and really enjoy the panorama view. Furthermore, it considers in regards to “future design” as Fry Tony (2008) conveys on human destruction of environment, but design could be a possible solution for sustainability. That this think about the duration or life time of technology or its resource and being prepared for future possibilities.

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PART ARENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCHSOLAR ENERGY

RENEWABLE ENERGY

As to accelerate on “defuturing” condition of unsustainability in this finite world, the focuses on renewable energy has significantly increased. Renewable energy is a essential aspect of design for its sustainability reasons and as wells as interesting design ideas, concept that can be worked around with the renewable energy source.

SOLAR ENERGY

One of the common renewable energy would be solar energy, which utilises radiation from sun and is most clean and abundant renewable source. The most common solar energy is photovolatics and solar thermal energy. Photovolatics is a direct conversion of solar radiation to electricity through certain materials is able to absorb photons of light and emits electron, which is than captured as electricity. On the other hand solar thermal energy uses concentrates radiation which heats the “thermal receiver”, usually a fluid, that is used for heating purposes. For both photovolatics and solar thermal energy is fairly old generation of technology, meaning that it is bulky, takes away large spaces, not so flexiable, thus extremely limiting overall design and its ideas or concept that can come through with.

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NEW TECHNOLOGY

New technologies are opening up oppotunities for various design to form and intereting ideas to flow.

UNI SOLAR PVL

Uni solar pvl contains thin panels, which works similar to photovolatics but this allows flexibility and light weight construction, thus enabling complex and different type of geometrical designs can be formed. Though installation of this should be carefully considered as it has to be installed where it can receive most of sunlight, such as roof, throughout day.

SOLAR WINDOW

While panel type, such as uni solar pvl, has to be installed top of roof, this type has more flexibility on where to install while providing some natural day light which is sort of double effect as it saves costs for lighting while producing some electricity. This really broaden the options for design. On short coming it is less efficient in producing electricity compare to other type of solar technology.

PART ARENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH

In conclusion, with development of technology, in terms of its size, volume, flexibility, efficiency and so on, it was possible to open up oppotunities for different variations of design and it will be very interesting to implement this solar energy into LAGI competition, to be sustainable by producing electricity for surrounding areas as well as reducing CO2 emition.

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