Design Boom
Date: Aug 11, 2018
to decrease the pollution in taiwan and optimize the production of electricity, MEPM lab proposes ‘recrystallization’, an alternative way to build a power plant as part of hsints ecological power plant competition.while now 50% of energy in the state is generated by coal firing, the architects’ concept is to create a new balance by decomposing the system and its energy flows.
‘for us, our concept of recrystallization is keeping the local, natural, social and historical elements of the site,’explains the team. ‘letting the habitat develop naturally, purifying the environment, and changing the system to one where local communities get greater benefits from the operations of the plant.’
Heat left over from the turbine generators will go into the economic cycle to warm the local fish farms, or into the social cycle to be reused by the local community. there will be no CO2 or particles, such as PM2.5 or PM10 released from the plant — they will be captured on site. even though it is impossible for the site to be carbon neutral, because the energy generated is transmitted and used off-site, our proposed plan utilizes virtually the entire plant as a carbon sink to maximize carbon sequestration naturally. a next-generation power plant should play the role of ‘recrystallizing’ the original elements of its location, including habitat, nature, and social welfare. [FULL STORY]