“Solar Asters (Al Arfaj)”

Stainless steel, Photovoltaic panels, LEDs, polycarbonate, deep-cycle batteries. 28' x 22' x 16'

2018

Sheikh-Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Center, Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Inspired by the Kuwaiti national flower (Al-Arfaj), three 28 to 36 foot stainless steel forms are topped by a flower-like array of solar panels. Photovoltaic charge, stored in “virtual Bedouin campfire” illuminating hundreds of LED bulbs by night- “silicon-based photosynthesis”…