Land Art Generator Initiative

The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) brings together artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, engineers, and others in a first of its kind collaboration. The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative is to see to the design and construction of 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.
The main goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is to design and construct public art installations that have the added benefit of large scale clean energy generation. Each sculpture will continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid, with each having the potential to provide power for hundreds to thousands of homes around the world.

Presenting the power plant as public artwork—simultaneously enhancing the environment, increasing livability, providing a venue for learning, and stimulating local economic development—is a way to address a variety of issues from the perspective of the ecologically concerned artist and designer. By nature of its functional utility, the work also sets itself into many other overlapping disciplines from architecture and urban design to mechanical engineering and environmental science. This interdisciplinary result has the effect of both enhancing the level of innovation and broadening the audience for the work.

In January of 2010 LAGI placed our first international call to artists, architects, scientists, and engineers to come up with both aesthetic and pragmatic solutions for 21st century energy challenges.

The design brief for the LAGI design competition contains the following baseline requirements—the artwork is to capture energy from nature, cleanly convert it into electricity, and transform and transmit the electrical power to a grid connection point to be supplied by the city. Consideration could be made for the safety of the viewing public and for the educational activities that may occur on site. The design should be constructible (rather than theoretical), and it must respect the natural ecosystem of the design sites.

My sculpture submission:

The Butterfly effect sculpture is a 33 meters high design, containing three main elements; 50 translucent fiber glass shaped as butterflies, white carbon fiber pipes to hold the sculpture and provide balance for the overall structure, and two leafless trees replacing the butterflies as leaves for the sculptural design.
The main goal of the design was to inspire the children mainly as opposed to them being the future generation, therefore a colorful design was chosen to make it very appealing to the eye and inspiring at the same time, creating fun shapes alongside making a sustainable idea come to life inspired the overall design of the project.

each butterfly entity consists of two main elements for a self sustained proposal, the upper side of the extruded geometrical design (butterfly wings) contains a costume designed solar panel allowing it to absorb clean solar energy which will be stored at night time for the integrated LED lights inside the translucent form creating a beautiful view of glowing the dark colorful sculpture.

-The technology used is simple and well established in the modern days, it is the same system used for solar panels which transfers solar energy to electrical energy.
- Materials used are translucent fiber glass and carbon fiber pipes.
- the estimated annual KWH = 50 x 4 panels x 200 x 5 hours a day = 200000 a day = 200kwh/day
energy loss = 15% = 170kwh/day
annually ~ 60000KWH

Environmental assessment:

Environmental benefits: The large-scale adoption of solar technologies will significantly reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and will consequently reduce the environmental impacts associated with these fuels .
Significant emission reductions can be accomplished through PV electricity (PVe) production since PVs do not generate noise or chemical pollutants during their normal operation. Besides, PV cells help the increase of soil humidity and improve flora formation in dry/arid areas.
The emissions associated with transport of the modules are minor in comparison to those associated with manufacture.
Transport emissions were still only 1% of manufacturing related emissions.
Renewable electricity technologies have inherently low life-cycle carbon dioxide emissions compared with traditional fossil fuel-based electricity production.
Most emissions occur during the manufacturing and deployment of the renewable energy technologies; Except for biopower, renewable electricity generation has low or zero direct emissions of regulated atmospheric pollutants.
Most renewable energy technologies consume significantly less water and have much smaller impacts
on water quality; Land use impacts tend to remain localized, and some affected land may also be used for other purposes.