Remote island developments pose distinct civil engineering challenges due to limited space, constrained infrastructure, and a high reliance on local energy supply [1]. Conventional connections to mainland power grids are often economically impractical and environmentally disruptive. As a result, building systems and energy infrastructure must be designed as an integrated whole, since changes in building scale, usage, or spatial layout directly affect energy demand and overall system feasibility.

This project adopts an offshore island resort as a unified system context and applies a Systems Engineering approach to investigate the interdependencies among multiple subsystems. The systems considered include an offshore wind energy generation system (Offshore Wind Turbine, which is fundamentally composed of the OWT Foundation and Tower), an energy management system (Tiny House), a hotel building system, and a restaurant building system. Due to the high functional coupling and shared spatial constraints between the OWT Foundation and the OWT Tower, these two components are treated as a unified “Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT)” entity in the subsequent analysis.

The system context is informed by real-world examples, with resort islands such as Sentosa Island providing reference for spatial scale and functional program, and island-based wind-powered systems such as El Hierro informing the energy concept. Rather than modeling these systems in isolation, the project focuses on how shared constraints enforce integration across all components.

The system operates entirely in islanded mode, which requires an integrated consideration of spatial layout, power supply reliability, and environmental impact to ensure sustainable and resilient tourism development. By combining ontological and parametric models, changes in one subsystem, such as energy demand or spatial configuration, can propagate through the integrated model, revealing system-level effects that would not be visible when systems are modeled independently.

Reference:

[1] Żołądek, M., Kafetzis, A., Figaj, R., & Panopoulos, K. (2022). Energy-Economic Assessment of Islanded Microgrid with Wind Turbine, Photovoltaic Field, Wood Gasifier, Battery, and Hydrogen Energy Storage. Sustainability, 14(19), 12470.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/19/12470?utm
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