Urban Turbines

Designed by: Benjamin Curtin and Michael Robison

Year: 2011

Integrating wind farms within the fabric of Busan, South Korea. Over 30% of renewable energy is lost in transmission from remote wind farms to the cities they power. Urban Turbines integrates a wind farm within the existing urban fabric of a South Korean city. Busan - a growing city highly dependent on non-renewable energy - is currently investing heavily in renewable energy resources. Urban Turbines proposes a more efficient transmission and dispersion of this renewable energy from its source to the demanding city by integrating the source within the city’s existing electrical grid.