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Leah Briney

FormShift Vancouver : Wildcard

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veg urban

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vancouver energy landscape

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wasted space

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closed loop energy landscape

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current urban system

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

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The contemporary energy landscape is dispersed and spatially disconnected with consumers isolated and buffered from the environmental consequences of their energy demands. This proposal seeks to connect the residents of the GVRD with their energy consumption by generating renewable energy within public amenity space. Making sustainable that which is wasteful, the VEG renewable energy facilities network will harvest the embodied energy of currently discarded organic waste material creating closed loop systems between refuse and generation. This project postulates how an energy landscape can both source from and provide power to a city where work, consumption, production and play are integrated and interconnected within a contemporary urban context .

This project proposes a network of energy centers throughout the Greater Vancouver Regional District that capitalize on the currently under-used land of the substation. By building on the existing network, this new system will add another layer to the existing system and a new programmatic surface to the fabric of the city allowing for community amenity space. This community amenity space folded into the energy facility will educate the public about their energy use and create connections between energy production and consumption, between wastefulness and optimization of resources.

This proposal will transform the stable objects that compose the energy infrastructure of the city to express the reality of energy; that of its finite supply and of its variable usage throughout the day. By focusing on developing a network of facilities, renewable energy will have an iconic and pervasive presence at the city scale and the addition of a public program into the facilities will enable interaction at the scale of the individual.

By redefining the GVRD's organics as the city's solar battery, the energy facilities will harvest the embodied energy of organic material to generate power. By removing the organic component from the GVRD's waste stream and using this currently wasted resource to generate energy, this project addresses Vancouver's energy issues in three ways with one system called the Vancouver Energy Generation facility network, or the VEG. The VEG captures the local organic waste stream, uses it to generate local energy and makes this process visible to assist in energy conservation education by providing a usable public facility.

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Jury Report

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