Desirable Small-Scale Solar Power Production in a Global Context: Local Tradition-Inspired Solutions to Global Issues

The polder in this case study addresses several environmental issues, risk management concerns related to localities served by existing non-permanent dams, energy requirements that can meet a locality’s needs during the renewable energy transition, and their impacts on both rural and urban built environments. Cultural landscape preservation or solar regeneration on agricultural plots in Romania’s rural wetland areas focuses on traditionally inspired design, emphasising the technical versus humanistic approach as an optimal path through some inspiring “Dyads”. Briefly, the dyads are related to Bennett’s systematic approach to ensure the knowledge necessary for achieving understanding without experiencing it. With a two-way spiral, the defined methodology applies energy as solar photovoltaic technology to water-related natural aspects in the built environment without reducing or harming the relevant water management related to nature or built cultural heritage. The Solar Regeneration Monad “Nature -Energy- Built” is a holistic visual framework, replicable in any built environment for a “Built” regenerative culture, that enables the best solution to be identified for the conservation of cultural heritage values in an “Energy” transition context with “Nature”, biodiversity, or other water-related issues.