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Lighting with Natural Energy at the Asunal Kanayama Building Complex [Aichi Prefecture]
Fig. 1 Lighting at the windmills.
Brief summary
Fig. 2 Daytime view of the windmills.
The Asunal Kanayama building complex, which opened in front of the north wing of the Kanayama Station, is an open mall commercial facility consisting of sixty stores and the Asunal Hall, a multi-purpose venue. The Asunal Kanayama complex also functions as a bus terminal, a taxi stand, a parking area, and a bicycle parking lot. Lighting powered by natural energy from wind and solar power generation was installed on the northern wall of the facility (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).
This facility has been designated as a refuge for the region in case of disaster, and the lighting is effective as a landmark.
- Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
- Owner: Nagoya Urban Development Corporation
- Design: K Architects & Associates
- Completion: March 2005
- Materials provided by:
Regular Member Hiroshi Koyama (Inaba Electric Work Co., Ltd.),
Photographs (Fig. 1, and Fig. 2): Copy right Jyunichi Shimomura
*This text is quoted from “Lighting Datasheets” published in the Journal of the IEI-J, Vol. 90, Number 9, July 2006. The journal contains a description of the illumination facilities.