ARTA Park; a Cultural and Creative Renewable Energy Park

There is no crisis for today’s human more important than decadence of fossil fuels and his concerns about providing energy for future generations. Meanwhile, turning back to the blessed hands of nature and using its everlasting energies could be a proper way of providing energy through modern methods.This needs a huge attempt to introduce this endless energy source to the public and energy providers of the country. Such stuff should not only consider financial and economical facilities of the society and providing necessary funding sources, but also have to make the energy consumers familiar with the cultural aspects of this precursor movement in energy issues.In regard to feeling the necessity to create such cultural bed in Iran, the present pattern is seeking to fulfill this concern and take an efficient step toward cultural, educational and economical development. In order to ascertain this concern, a park has been designed under the title of renewable energy park having unique characteristics of providing necessary energy in addition to regarding all principles of designing parks.Following this objective, some energy tools, energy consumption calculating methods and environmental issues have been employed and the result was applied to a real occasion in district 22 of Tehran Municipality. Since the main purpose of designing a renewable energy park is to familiarize the public with a friendly environment in which the landscapes and facilities are designed such that the visitors could be able to have a direct contact with the basic concepts of renewable energy.

ARTA Park; a Cultural and Creative Renewable Energy Park Keywords:

Renewable Energy , Urban Park Design , Sustainable Architecture