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BIG launches Kickstarter Campaign to fund World’s First Steam Ring Generator

Denmark Architecture News - Aug 17, 2015 - 17:42   5051 views

BIG launches Kickstarter Campaign to fund World’s First Steam Ring Generator

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BIG always seeks new innovative systems or productive ways for architecture to get more attraction from public and create new awareness about studio's latest projects- the latest announcement of the studio is about BIG's Waste-to-Energy plant. Bjarke Ingels Group has launched a new Kickstarter Campaign to fund World's First Steam Ring Generator.

By 2017 the citizens of Copenhagen will not only be able to ski down the cleanest power plant in the world - their perceptions of what a power plant can be will be challenged by an art piece that raises awareness of our carbon emissions. The world’s first steam ring generator will puff out a steam ring for every ton of CO2 burned in the plant. 

BIG launches Kickstarter Campaign to fund World’s First Steam Ring Generator

Diagram of the prototype which is one third of the real steam ring generator.

By sweeping nothing under the carpet, but rather projecting our carbon footprint onto the Copenhagen sky, the studio provides every single citizen intuitive information to help them inform the decisions they make for their lives and for the city that they want to live in.

BIG launches Kickstarter Campaign to fund World’s First Steam Ring Generator

Copenhagen Waste To Energy Plant

Based on an original art proposal by the Berlin-based artists realities:united, BIG is designing the chimney to utilize the plant’s excess steam in collaboration with Peter Madsen's Rumlaboratorium, as well as the Danish Technical University. In the future, if you come to Copenhagen, all you will have to do is look at the Copenhagen sky and count the rings. Each one will signify the emission of a single ton of CO2.

BIG launches Kickstarter Campaign to fund World’s First Steam Ring Generator

Currently under construction, June 2015

BIG launches Kickstarter Campaign to fund World’s First Steam Ring Generator

Completion in 2017

BIG launches Kickstarter Campaign to fund World’s First Steam Ring Generator

The plant has three steam lines with different pressure that are used to create the steam rings.

> via kickstarter.com