Turbine City

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Turbine City

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Hospitality + Sport › Hotel
Cultural › Museum
Landscape + Planning › Public Park

The European
Union has committed to deriving 20% of its total energy consumption from
renewable sources by 2020. The Guarantees of Origin (GoO) system has created a
new tradable good within the EU: renewable energy.
Norway carries
the geographical and economical potential to surpass its own goals and become a
major exporter of GoO energy. It
already possesses everything it needs: the longest, windiest, unsaturated
coastline in Europe, expertise in offshore installations, immense investment
capital from the state oil industry, and a battery of hydropower plants to
partner wind power.
This potential
is no secret; Norway has already begun speculation on an ambitious 8000MW, $44 billion
venture. Yet offshore wind farms are meeting strong resistance, mainly due to
misinformation and ungrounded skepticism.
What Norway
needs to propel wind power is a flagship wind farm to promote and celebrate its
newest investment.
The wind turbine,
the fastest developing renewable energy, has reached a scale that can
accommodate architecture within. A
mast with a diameter of 10 meters is no longer a mere pole, it is a tower.
Events like
European Wind Day have proven that public acceptance grows with firsthand
contact and understanding of the technology. By combining tourism with turbines, the discussion is taken
out of town halls and is instead contextualized within the majestic ocean-scape
of wind farms.The Turbine
City, off the coast of Stavanger, integrates a hotel, spa, and museum with an
offshore wind farm. Only 1 MW from
one of these 8MW turbines is enough to power the entire facility. By bringing tourists, sailors, offshore
oil-workers, and cruise ships to Turbine City, people are able to experience
the advantages and spectacle of turbines firsthand, thereby increasing
awareness and support.
Stavanger lies
precisely at the point where the Norwegian coastline kisses the high-strength
winds. The 4th largest
city in Norway, Stavanger is a well-connected tourist destination. Although known as the oil capital of Norway,
it could use this economic momentum to rebrand itself in time for the
“sustainable revolution,” to create a landmarks among the ranks of
architectural symbols of the world, without clashing with the historical image
of the city.

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