2024-11-24T02:13:32-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149936222/a-river-of-solar-power-a-scheme-for-the-tijuana-river Julia Ingalls 2016-03-23T18:30:00-04:00 >2016-04-08T00:41:46-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/jh/jhfy2m999k4e1647.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In Tijuana, another architect is devising a plan to turn the Tijuana River channel into a solar farm that could provide power to as many as 30,000 homes. Rene Peralta, co-founder of the Tijuana firm Generica and director of an architecture master's program at San Diego's Woodbury University, thinks that his city can transform this unwieldy piece of infrastructure into a renewable energy plant and water-cleaning station.</p></em><br /><br /><p>February 2016 was the hottest month in several thousand years, so it seems like a good idea to start transforming erstwhile urban heat islands into power-generating rivers. Below, Generica's rendering of the proposed redesigned Tijuana river channel:</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/tc/tchavj0aeyj9bffq.jpg"></p><p>For more on projects that turn seemingly intractable swaths of infrastructure into gorgeous urban amenities:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/145736562/liz-diller-gets-high-discussing-the-high-line-s-development-with-christopher-hawthorne" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Liz Diller gets high: discussing The High Line's development with Christopher Hawthorne</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/133738813/gehry-enlisted-to-masterplan-la-river-redevelopment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gehry enlisted to masterplan LA River redevelopment</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149934555/los-angeles-river-revitalization-prosperity-for-all-or-just-a-chosen-few" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Los Angeles River revitalization: prosperity for all or just a chosen few?</a></li></ul>