The Solar Winds Desert Power Plant from Michael Jantzen The
Solar Winds Desert Power Plant is a design proposal for a large
public gathering place to be located in a public park, in a hot
dry climate. The structure was created to function as an
architectural art attraction that also collects energy from the
wind and from the sun, and distributes the energy in the form of
electricity into the local power grid. The solar energy is
gathered from flexible solar cells that are mounted onto the
twenty four curved leaves of the symbolic plant. The wind energy
is gathered from a large vertical axis wind turbine especially
designed to symbolically refer to the flower of the plant. There
is a large circular bench for visitors built in around the
symbolic stem. The bench and much of the space under the
symbolic leaves of the Solar Winds Desert Power Plant, are
shaded throughout the day giving the visitors some relief from
the hot desert sun. The design of the Solar Winds Desert Power
Plant like many of my other projects