Site Potential & Precedents

Wall Space
Digital Education - energy efficient screen

Mural/Education

Garden/Green wall

 

Large Triangle Space

- multiple levels of wood stadium seating

- bike storage

- ADA accessability

- native species gardens on top level

- stormwater management & storage under raised triangle floor

Pop-Up/Community Space

Energy Usage

Here's just a general idea of average household energy usage:

http://blog.myenergy.com/2012/09/26/average-amount-of-electricity-a-household-uses/

Site Goals

SITE: Main triangle + Parking lot (surface, wall, roof, etc.)

1. Cultivate local economy using natural resources, sustainably grown food, stormwater management, and green space used for education and community events

            - EARTH = Boost local economy

            - WATER = Collect and distribute stormwater runoff

            - ENERGY = utilize community’s natural resources

            - AIR = reduce air pollution, create filtration and circulation     

2. LIFE =  Develop replicable models for open spaces for city/neighborhood scale

Energy Research

Research and Analysis - Energy
Stephanie Heucke, Rachel Howren, Jessica Nielsen

Stephanie: how we can create regenerative energy by operating on the community's natural energy resources - researching what exactly those energy sources are and how to harness them.

Rachel: the current energy sources the city of Philadelphia and state of Pennsylvania are currently using and researching different types 'alternate' energy sources.

Jess: researching different communities and projects that have incorporated interactive aspects and have created a sense of community (i.e. Daybreak Community in Utah)

Energy Goals

·         Eliminate all degenerative energy sources by replacing them with regenerative sources

·         Create awareness of alternate energy sources by incorporating an interactive aspect

·         Create regenerative energy by operating on community’s natural energy sources

Stephanie Heucke, Rachel Howren, Jessica Nielsen

Energy Touchstones

      1.  Utilize some or multiple forms of alternative energy ///

      2. Reduce energy emissions ///

      3.  Create awareness of alternate energy sources //

      4.  Consider all KSS /

      5.  Increase efficiency //

      6. Create a list of incentives/decentives

      7.  Increased energy production

      8.  Regenerative energy //

     9.   Eliminate 50% of degenerative energy /

    10.  Aesthetically pleasing energy sources

    11.  Visual  representation

   12.    Interactive /

Energy

History

• Fire was the first form of energy
• Early forms of energy were those used to hunt animals, harvest edible plants, and process and transport food, energy came from eating food
• Energy Progression: burning coal, heating for cooking, refining petroleum as fuels for lamps, wheels to harness water, windmills, intense coal mining, natural gas well, electromagnetism, electric generator and motor, first oil well drilled in Pennsylvania (1850s), solar energy generator, alternating current system, geothermal energy, the world’s largest petroleum deposit in Saudi Arabia, first nuclear power plants
• Invention of electricity, earliest 20^th century, favored method for transmitting energy
•  Trends: dependency on foreign oil, Three Mile Island (1979), evidence that fossil fuel is contributing to global climate change, fear of depletion of nonrenewable resources (since the 1860s) is still relevant

Trajectory

•  Further developing existing energy sources
•   Economic disincentive for not using sustainable energy sources/methods/processes
•  Goals from Mayor Nutter (2010): Lower overall city energy consumption, generate 20% from alternative energy sources, reduce vehicle miles traveled, divert 70% of solid waste from landfill  http://www.phila.gov/green/greenworks/PDFs/GreenworksPlan002.pdf

Goldilocks Scale

• Neighborhood – widespread, unified collaboration in order to manage energy