WIND generators integrated into buildings?

[oracle]

I am wondering why buildings don't integrate wind generators into their designs. A tall building could have a traditional horizontal axis turbine at its tip:



Or perhaps the shape of the building could be so that it deflects wind and makes it go through a horizontal axis turbine located at its side edge. A building's surface could act like a huge wind deflector..purposefully redirecting air current to a wind turbine.

[fangorangutang]

I'm not sure what they'll look like, but there's talk of outfitting PSU's College of Urban and Public Affairs' building with wind micro-turbines.

[Gava]

Bahrain world trade center does, 3 wind generators are located between the two towers.

[ATLskyline]

In Atlanta a new tower that should break ground hopefully by june is going to have wind turbines and solar panels integrated into the top of the building, supposedly 50% of the buildings energy needs will be self-sufficient.

Aquarius Tower

[brian_b]

This installation features eight 520H Aeroturbines mounted horizontally to the roof of this 96-unit single-resident housing development. The building, designed by Murphy/Jahn Architects, is a fine example of building-integrated wind energy technology. The geometry and orientation of the building was designed specifically to increase the speed of the wind as it flows over the roof.

http://www.aerotecture.com/projects_mlh.html



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/re...rssnyt&emc=rss

[Pandemonious]

This already is happening.

Google "Pearl River Tower"

Designed by SOM, for Guangzhou, it has been wind engineered to make more effective use out of its integrated wind turbines.

[Happy Valley Freak]

yeah, Frank Gehry is considering putting wind turbines on top of a building he's designing for Lehi utah

[Rico Rommheim]

How much energy can these wind generators provide? Can they make a tower self-sufficient?

[skyscraper]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

How much energy can these wind generators provide? Can they make a tower self-sufficient?

I have my doubts about whether this building is going to get built, but in the concept they have wind turbines between every floor, making it not only able to power itself but up to 7 other buildings as well.
http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/

[oracle]

And expected to product electricity worth 7'000'000$ a year.

[MarkDaMan]

As fango pointed out, Portland State University's new student center is supposed to have turbines. The 12W tower being building in downtown Portland should have turbines too.

And, this rendering was just released and is getting ready to start construction. It will be a boat storage, office building, retail and restaurant building that was originally headed to be completely energy independent, not just from wind turbines but the non-window walls are going to be solar panels and they are even gathering the power generated from the elevators moving up and down (even though it takes more power to move the elevator than it will generate). I don't know if with this redesign and additional amenities, they will be able have a complete net zero energy impact.




http://portlandcitystorage.com/index.html

This is being built across the river from Portland's high density South Waterfront neighborhood, and will be visible from most downtown office towers that have a view of the river.

[Wattleigh]

There is Discovery Tower in Houston, which is designed to have 10 vertical axis turbines as part of the crown. It's just begun construction within the past few months.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=146737