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Morgan, B. (Ben), Bull, Freya, Uzzell, Kieran, Cain, Rebecca, MacKrill, James B., Dimitrokali, Elisavet, Ramachers, Y. and Jones, G. (Graham) (2019) Data for PVTree. [Dataset]
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2579104
Abstract
Photovoltaic Trees (PVTrees) are artificial solar structures that look like sculptural trees and exist from small scale (size of a bonsai tree) to large scale (about the size of a wind turbine). The aesthetics of solar trees differ and they have been designed to provide different means of power to different urban and built environments. These range from powering mobile phones, electric cars, buildings and street lights covering small and large scale areas (one or a forest of PVTrees). This study brought together a research team of physicists and designers and to conduct focus groups with design based methods and prototyping (clustering of ideas, sketching and modelling) along with a computational 3D PVTree design tool. The focus groups consisted of capturing a) people's perception on PVTrees, idea generations and development of the 3D model and b) further discussion and evaluation of insights. A public exhibition followed to capture public perception on design concepts using 3D models, and a voting exercise. Overall it was found that PVTrees were received positively by the public with desires for them to be multifunctional by providing power yet also having a secondary function e.g. a shelter or seat. The paper details this, considerations for concept development, and the future direction of research in the area.
| Item Type: | Dataset | ||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||
| Type of Data: | Experimental data | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Photovoltaic cells -- Design and construction , Solar energy -- Research, Public architecture -- Energy conservation | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group | ||||||
| Official Date: | 27 February 2019 | ||||||
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| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Media of Output (format): | .tar.gz .pdf .dat .sh .cmake .py .cpp .hpp .cfg .txt | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | University of Warwick | ||||||
| Description: | Data record consists of a 2 zip archives, a master archive in zip format and a data archive in .tar.gz format, and a PDF documentation file. Within the master archive are sub-folders labelled according to contents, raw data files various formats and a readme file. |
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