The aim of this publication is to contribute to a better understanding of how we can build sustainable (energy) landscapes. Each form of renewable energy (RES) transforms the landscape in its own specific way and can therefore affect landscape quality in different ways, both positively and negatively. This study starts from the idea that the integration of renewable energy technologies, specifically solar and wind, does not necessarily have to affect the characteristics and qualities of our landscapes in Flanders.
The development of a sustainable energy landscape can be seized as an opportunity to form a new layer in the landscape that can reorder, bring meaning and structure back, or increase the readability of an area. It is also an opportunity to bring back quality to a landscape. A better integration of renewable energy in the landscape can help to ensure that these new landscape elements are more readily accepted by society. Landscape thus becomes the negotiator between the new energy infrastructure and the receiving space in which it seeks a place.
This study explores the opportunities and potential of solar and wind energy for landscape development, identity and perception, by visualising the impact of solar and wind energy within the context of the diversity and identity of landscape types in Flanders . By means of design research, visual and imaginative landscape-spatial concepts are developed that link up the various challenges. This publication serves as inspiration for design and provides input for policy.
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