Hyperfunctional Energy Landscapes: Retrofitting Public Space With Renewable Energy Infrastructure
| dc.contributor.author | Grover, Alison | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-13T20:49:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-13T20:49:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-06-13 | |
| dc.description | 109 pages. Committee chair:Yekang Ko | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Between 60% and 80% of global energy is consumed in urban areas, and this will increase with urbanization and population growth. We must meet this new demand sustainably. By 2050, the Green New Deal calls for global net-zero emissions, and by 2040, Oregon will require fifty percent of its energy use to be fueled by renewable energy sources. Scholars have noted that the US contains enough developed land to retrofit to meet our renewable energy goals without using greenfields. Siting renewable energy infrastructure within the built environment of cities can help reduce energy sprawl and transmission losses while creating an opportunity for social engagement and education. Making urban space multifunctional is important because of limited land availability and competing land uses. With that in mind, this project poses the question: How could renewable energy synergize with social space, green infrastructure, and sustainable transportation in urban public space to create hyperfunctional energy landscapes? This project addresses multiple underresearched aspects of renewable energy including small-scale energy production, energy production in the right-of-way (ROW), and the social functions of energy production. This project reviews literature on decentralized energy systems, landscape multifunctionality, environmental justice, sustainable transportation, and environmental functions of the ROW. As a reference, I used an inventory process to analyze the hyperfunctionality of winning submissions to Land Art Generator, an annual design competition with the motto “Renewable Energy Can Be Beautiful”. The overall findings of the literature review, inventory analysis, and projective design phases include the development of 12 Building Blocks, 9 Typologies of Urban Public Space, and 1 Site Design in the Lents Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Using a 7-block segment as example, the Site Design envisions the Lents Green Ring, a circuit of streets and greenways in an underserved neighborhood as a hyperfunctional energy landscape. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/26334 | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Landscape Architecture Program, M.S.; | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | urban design | en_US |
| dc.subject | renewable energy | en_US |
| dc.subject | solar | en_US |
| dc.subject | greenway | en_US |
| dc.subject | sustainable transportation | en_US |
| dc.subject | hyperfunctional | en_US |
| dc.subject | multifunctional | en_US |
| dc.title | Hyperfunctional Energy Landscapes: Retrofitting Public Space With Renewable Energy Infrastructure | en_US |
| dc.type | Terminal Project | en_US |