Portugese architectural design team On Office may be onto something big...make that really big.
Their cutting edge, ocean-bound wind turbine city -- which takes advantage of all of the wasted real estate presently available within the base of green energy-generating leviathons -- might very well be coming to a coastline near you. That's right...Dubai better watch its back.
The forward-thinking collective -- consisting of Leon Rost, Joao Vieira Costa, Don Lawrence and Tudor Vlasceanu -- have dreamt up a theoretical world (located specifically off the coast of Stavanger, Norway) in which current offshore wind farms are retrofitted with human-friendly architectural features.
As they see it, why shouldn't wind turbines do just a little bit more than merely occupy space in the ocean while reducing our reliance on fossil fuels?
If you think these gents have their heads in the clouds, you will likely reconsider once you take a long hard look at their extensive collection of design proposals which have clearly been carefully thought out.
It honestly seems as though they didn't leave a single ocean seashell or hunk of coral unturned as they were brainstorming ideas for this lofty futurescape.
Operating under the let's kill two birds with one stone premise, they came up with the notion of incorporating tourism with green energy generation, a novel idea that any human being would have to see to believe (and would likely pay good money to do so).
Norway is known for many things -- including its arctic tundra, Viking roots and awe-inspiring fjords -- but it isn't the first place that people run to on their family vacation.
The region would certainly become far more desirable if a project of this nature were to come to fruition -- just imagine museums, hotels, shopping opportunities and spas migrating into the core of specific turbines.
Presently poised as the premier global location to best utilize naturally occurring wind patterns, the country would do well to capitalize on their green image while raking in some always-handy extra tourism dollars.
Remarkably, just 1 MW from 8 MW turbines would generate enough clean green energy to run the entire turbine city, including its dining, shopping and entertainment features.
Do you think that this is a good idea? Would you make Norway a must-see destination if and when they make this project happen? Do you see any apparent drawbacks?
On Office's designs/pix courtesy of Design Boom.
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