Future of Architecture: Buildings as Power Plants

After the energy crisis in 1970s, buildings began to be used as a platform for the elements which produce energy from renewable energies to return them into energy producing power plants. This is a safe, clean and economic way to produce energy since the energy is produced where it is needed and they use renewable energy resources. So, it promises hope for the future energy production. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine buildings which produce electricity by using renewable energy resources and to show that this is one of the safest, cleanest and most economic ways to be used to produce energy in the future. This is done by describing power plants and how buildings are used as power producing stations by the use of renewable energy resources or other energy producing materials, then by examining case studies which are constructed and already being used, case studies which are just a design that have not yet been constructed, and by making projections to the future energy producing techniques that are just a proposal in 2021. In the conclusion, buildings are proposed as the future power plants, either here on earth or on another planet like Mars.