A Tribute to the Persian Windmill – The Process

"A Tribute to the Persian windmill" is a triptych consisting of three wind sculptures. This experimental art project was carried out in 2016 and exhibited in front och the Vaasa City Art Gallery in Finland. The project was inspired by the principles of the ancient Persian Windmill – a simple construction in which one side of a vertical turbine is covered whereas the wind pressure affects only the opposite side of the vertical axis

Each turbine weighs 15-20 kilograms. The turbines are floating on water, generating minimum friction at a low cost.
The sculptures are made out of recycled materials – for example fabric from old raincoats.
The project illustrates the potential of lowbudget&lowtech solutions as an opposite to the hype for high tech.

These turbine models should have potential to be further developed – considering that they were mounted on ground level between trees and high buildings (were the wind speed tends to be low). The next phase of the project will be to eliminate the noise and to attach gears and a generator.

Here you can see a movie clip of the final versions in action:    • A Tribute to the Persian Windmill #2  
Here is another clip of the small scale models:    • A Tribute to the Persian windmill #1  

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