Battery of Amsterdam

Battery of Amsterdam: where mankind interacts with clean energy

Zimmerman, Shawn (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

van de Pas, Roel (mentor)
Tomesen, Paddy (graduation committee)
Fremouw, Michiel (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2019-07-09

With new renewable technologies, each production system has become its own Distributed generator, contributing energy to the net. This means, that the perception of power plants will change in the future, as each building can become a distributed generator. This means that powerplants will seize to exist creating a new paradigm of power plants. As buildings switch from a consumer standpoint to a producer standpoint, this Creates a power transition within our build environment. But with new ways to produce the energy, we must find ways to store these energies within our common spaces. Therefore the battery of Amsterdam uses hydro energy storage system to create a new type of powerplant within our cities, where mankind interacts with clean energy. This new way of using our buildings as distributed generators will change our building typology from consumers of energy to producer of energy within our social spaces.

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Student theses

master thesis

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