Client: Sheikh-Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Center, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Overview

“Solar Asters (Al-Arfaj)”
Inspired by the Kuwaiti national flower (Al-Arfaj), a small dandelion-like plant that blooms in springtime the Kuwaiti desert, composed of three 28 to 32 foot stainless steel forms are topped by a flower-like array of solar panels.
Photovoltaic charge, stored in deep-cycle batteries within a “virtual Bedouin campfire” illuminating hundreds of LED bulbs by night- a “silicon-based photosynthesis.”
32’ tall x variable widths, in 316L stainless steel (to resist corrosion from the sea air blowing in from the Persian Gulf)
Sheikh-Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Center, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
© Brian Borrello, 2018.

Goals

Off-grid pwer and lighting system of photovoltaic panels, deep cycle batteries, LEDs, and charge controllers, and composed of 316L (surgical grade) stainless steel to resist corrosion from the sea air blowing in from the Persian Gulf,