Integrated architectural systems: Integrated design of wind turbines with high-rise buildings

The aim of this study is to examine `integrated architecture? and `system? concepts, during the integration process of building systems and ecosystems, with renewable energy sources to become important, integration of high-rise buildings and wind turbines, in this context in recent years the wind energy about which detailed research is initiated in world literature and which is initiated to be used widely, examining the integration strategies, architectural, structural and environmental dimensions of the subject, creation of integration design citeria. The starting point of the study is; searching the integration method of architectural systems. Nowadays because of the increasing demand of energy and decreasing of present energy sources force alternative energy sources to be used. For this reason, it is provided to deal with renewable energies as sub-systems which satisfies the integration between building and ecosystem. In this context, 10 high-rise building integrated wind turbines are determined, then it is tried to determine the integration potentials, design and process features between architectural design and building form. In this study, shape of the placement of wind turbines and architectural design criterias of buildings is analyzed with PhotoshopPortable and Autocad 2009 programs. Eventually, this study introduces that the integration potential of wind turbines with high-rise buildings is related to building form.