We are students from the Dept of Engineering and Architectural Design at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
We initially designed a moving tower, named FloPoTo for Flower Power Tower, exploring the ideas of structure and space while honouring and celebrating ‘carnival’. We have built it four times, for our original parade in Stratford, around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the Bartlett Summer Show Launch Party, the UCLE Marshgate open event and the Bloomsbury Festival. We achieved our aims of efficiency, lightness, and grandeur- with the tower reaching up to a monumental 10 metres high.
Today’s solar panel fields impose negatively on the natural environment and are limited by their set position and angles. Our idea is to integrate solar panels with the form and elegance of the hyperboloid, to make beautiful energy producing structures.
The new FloPoTo will be programmed to move simultaneously with the day so that the surface area directly facing the sun is maximising the solar input.
Our design is dynamic and flexible, and we propose to develop an automated kinetic model with solar power. It will be a permanent structure that could potentially revolutionise solar energy technology
Team Leader: Ramona Kingdon, Contact: ramona.kingdon.22@ucl.ac.uk;
Team: Anna Van Gucht, Sebastian Eisen, Arina Pavlova, Mengyuan Chen, Aliza Kabani, Hana Molokhia, Ahmet Urfali.
