[MOC] Wind farm maintenance & research station

[Exetrius]

The global energy transition is starting to pick up steam. Offshore wind farms are being rolled out in shallow seas across the world. Because fishing within wind farms is often restricted or prohibited, these farms have the potential to become true wildlife sanctuaries. How will marine life develop and colonize the new underwater landscape, formed by the windturbines? Only one way to find out: science! 

Wind farm maintenance & research station

The research station sits on a concrete caisson pillar, and is integrated into a windturbine. It features a general viewing platform, a drone landing pad and a larger platform with crane, for loading supplies and equipment onto or off the station. The station can only accommodate two crew members (researchers or technicians) at most and is not permanently operated.

A researcher has fallen into the river in LEGO city lowered the water sampling device on the platform. From it she will collect the sample and analyse it on-site, for physical-chemical parameters, algae content, and possible pollutants. 

 

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I hope you enjoyed this little bit of backstory. I built this as an entry to a Vestas Facebook challenge, where the premise was to create a creative windturbine with LEGO or other materials. I had been wanting to step into modern/industrial/futurism creations for a while already, so this was a fun excuse to get my feet wet.  

The turbine and crane can turn, the turbine blades spin smoothly and the building has an interior, as you can see below:

 

Thanks for looking! C&C always appreciated!

 

[Roses]

Lovely colour blocking on the platform with the dark blue edges and the yellow railings & supports! I don't often get a cozy feeling out of industrial settings but that tiny station makes for a nice little nook. Great use of the Millennium Falcon Cockpit for the bay window, too. I've often wanted to dabble in some offshore platform-type MOCing but haven't known how to go on about it. Well done packing so many details into a small vignette and dealing with a seamless octagonal structure!

[ExeSandbox]

14 hours ago, Exetrius said:

A researcher has fallen into the river in LEGO city lowered the water sampling device on the platform.

Great build and I enjoyed the backstory as well! Love the use of the kessel run windscreen for the observation window, and the fungus/algae/gunk buildup near the base is a neat touch! 

[Exetrius]

On 2/14/2022 at 5:44 AM, Roses said:

Lovely colour blocking on the platform with the dark blue edges and the yellow railings & supports! I don't often get a cozy feeling out of industrial settings but that tiny station makes for a nice little nook. Great use of the Millennium Falcon Cockpit for the bay window, too. I've often wanted to dabble in some offshore platform-type MOCing but haven't known how to go on about it. Well done packing so many details into a small vignette and dealing with a seamless octagonal structure!

Thanks for your compliments!  "Cozy industrial" is now a genre I want to build in more, haha!  The octagonal shape was a challenge indeed, and it's unfortunately under a bit of tension. I didn't close the ring on the back so to speak, because that would put it really under stress.

21 hours ago, ExeSandbox said:

Great build and I enjoyed the backstory as well! Love the use of the kessel run windscreen for the observation window, and the fungus/algae/gunk buildup near the base is a neat touch! 

Thanks, mate! :D

[Feuer Zug]

Good build. The details are well thought out and placed on the first level of the pillar.

[Exetrius]

18 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

Good build. The details are well thought out and placed on the first level of the pillar.

Thank you!