{"id":4073,"date":"2014-08-12T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2016-01-02T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:04:32","slug":"tree-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/archives\/4073","title":{"rendered":"Tree of Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tree of Knowledge <\/strong><br \/>\nSubmission to the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative Copenhagen design competition<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist Team:<\/strong> Boguslaw Barnas, Rafal Barnas, Omar Gharaibeh, Natalia Jejer<br \/>\n<strong>Artist Location:<\/strong> Krakow, Poland<br \/>\n<strong>Energy Technologies:<\/strong> piezoelectric toroids, micro wind turbine<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TreeOfKnowledge11.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tree Of Knowledge\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4076\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the center of the hall grew a large tree, with luxuriantly hanging branches. Golden apples large and small hung like oranges among the leaves. This was the Tree of Knowledge.\u201d<br \/>\nHans Christian Andersen<\/p>\n<p>Tree of Knowledge draws on motifs found in the fairy tale \u201cThe Garden of Paradise\u201d by Hans Christian Andersen. The electricity-generating sculpture is \u201cThe Tree of Knowledge\u201d while \u201cThe Four Winds of the World\u201d are the source of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TreeOfKnowledge3.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tree Of Knowledge\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4078\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tree.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tree of Knowledge\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sculpture\u2019s roots wind their way through a wild and mystical landscape evoking an otherworldly image that is in contrast to the industrial surroundings of Refshale\u00f8en. The organic shape of Tree of Knowledge stands out amid the rigid forms of chimneys, turbines, and warehouses. Upon stepping into the garden, the visitor is transported from the urban reality of Copenhagen into a world of fairytales. The tree is a symbol of nature and knowledge, and the aim of this artificial landscape is to promote contemplation on humankind\u2019s impact on nature.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TreeOfKnowledge5.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tree Of Knowledge\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4081\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the top of the tower is a small-scale wind turbine that captures air as it moves through the roots and into the tower by way of the stack effect (warm ground air naturally rises up to mix with the cooler air at the top of the 70-meter tower). Additionally, the steel structure holds two large industrial balloons, the surfaces of which are covered with PVC pipes containing millions of piezoelectric components. The wind and the mechanical stress from the balloon movements will stimulate the piezoelectric elements to produce electricity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/TreeOfKnowledge2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tree Of Knowledge\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4077\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree of Knowledge Submission to the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative Copenhagen design competition Artist Team: Boguslaw Barnas, Rafal Barnas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74,73,69],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-lagi-submissions","category-lagi-2014-design-competition","category-renewable-energy-public-art","tag-lagi-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}