Home › News ›

Futuristic, Carbon-Neutral Plan for Azerbaijan

Posted by: Tim Halbur

30 January 2009 - 7:00am

A futuristic-looking, carbon-neutral development is rising on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, featuring residential buidlings designed to mimic the country's famous Seven Peaks.

"Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has released their master plan design for the island of Zira off the coast of Azerbaijan. The island will undergo a full revitalization to become a zero-energy resort and entertainment city (amazing!). Under this concept BIG has developed a sustainable urban development which uses the landscape of the country has a theme in its revitalization."

"The island will use solar, wind and wave power to supply it with energy allowing it to operate completely off-grid with zero-energy efficiency."

Zir Island Master Plan by BIG.
Full Story: SEVEN PEAKS OF AZERBAIJAN, ZERO-ENERGY RESORT!
Source: Loudreams, January 28, 2009
»

Comments

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Carbon Neutral??

Submitted by Charles Siegel on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 09:36.

A resort in Azerbaijan is obviously meant to attract tourists who arrive by airplane, and those planes emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide, which they ignore when they claim the resort is carbon-neutral.

In terms of emissions, it is much better to go to a conventional resort near your home than to fly to a carbon-neutral resort in Azerbaijan.

Charles Siegel

Bookmark and Share
“
People need to stop thinking about cities as bundles of technical problems that the planners must solve for them and to start thinking about the different ways that they would live in different types of cities.
”