USING SALT IN PRODUCTIVE AND RESORATIVE WAYS FOR GREEN CONSTRUCTION AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

How can 20 million tons of harvested salt from the Dead Sea every year be used to benefit the society, industry, and the economy? The idea comes from salt extraction and how the salt can best be utilized. This paper shows a project with its architectural design attempt to use local and available resources to create a special constructional material that sensitize visitors to the interpretation of Dead Sea nature and produce electricity from salt without waste. This research is a conceptually orientated research try to raising awareness on green construction and promotes using renewable energy gained from salt for our future challenge of the built environment, through physical solution. The new constructional material depends on salt crystallization on mesh structure. As the water evaporates and salt mineral deposits aggregate, the structure?s appearance transforms from a greyish transparent mesh into a highly reflective and vibrant white opacity. The structural system is a steel structure tube framework that is coated fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) with polymer mesh, sheathed with the salt-layer. However Solar energy is considered one of the most renewable and clean energy sources available on the surface of the Earth, so scientific and technological progress contributed to exploiting solar energy and exploring additional advantage of this renewable source. For example, salinity gradient solar pond, were generally designed for electricity production. The useful thermal energy is then withdrawn from the solar pond in the form of hot brine, use a special low-temperature turbine which enables the hot pond water to convert an organic fluid to vapor and thus produce electricity. We conclude that if sustainability principles interact with the built environment in architectural design we can create interactive systems for best solutions for our future challenges all around the world.