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#093 Sparking Springs

by volume64blog
September 29, 2017
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B9_#093 // SUBSTATION // JONATHAN WREN

Waste heat from this converted Sub Station is used to create a thermally-heated outdoor Lido. Watt a shocking Transformer-ation.

Jonathan Wren is an M.Arch Graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture

 

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#cube099 of #thesubstation marries the flashing lights of neon signs with its usually forgetful façade, pushing it at the forefront of urban streetviews: 🏙 "The proposal here is a reimagined substation that wants to be seen. Substations are now placed near city centres for better access and can be maintained more frequently. Companies wanting to advertise themselves has to buy their rights to each panel. New substations are new urban spectacles that want to be seen." 🏙 BY LLOYD LEE @lloydlees @aaschool #volume64 In #cube098 of the #substation, the microtypology enters mixed use and daily life: 🍞 "A silent sentry, the substation’s usually dull presence is transformed into an element fuelling the heat of a typical daily activity: bread at the bakery. The boulangerie shapes a daily routine for many urban inhabitants, who can now get their bread….hot off the whirring, blustering (and slightly flour-dusted) power plant." #hotoffthepowerplant 🔋 BY Sabrina Syed @sabi_syed #volume64 Repost! #cube095 of the #substation addresses a critical issue in our energy-generating world - where to store it? 🏠 "The Domulator, short for domestic accumulator, uses the mass of our houses to store potential energy in times of overproduction by winching it up and releasing it in times of electricity shortage through a generator. Without the need of toxic batteries, our cities become animate structures, finally reflecting the energy landscape in which they are embedded." 🏠 BY AGOSTINO NICKL @agostinonickl @bartlettarchucl #volume64 #cube097 Power Plant rethinks the typology of the common distribution node cabinet. 🎚🔋 “The Power Plant utilises the malleable and efficient wrapping, bending and coiling potential of telecommunications optical fibre cables to create internet distribution points that not only become a new elegant piece of street furniture but an easily maintained workstation for network engineers.” 🎚🔋 By Henry Schofield @h_enry @bartlettarchucl #volume64 #cube096 brings the #substation to suburbia by domesticating the typology in the "House Plant": 🔋 "Playing with scale in size and voltage the normal function of the substation is subverted. With the idea of the “House-Plant” a new typology emerges: the substation as electricity plant is becoming domestified – offering a centralised power supply for low volt devices it is constituting a key apparatus of the future household." 🌱 BY JOHANNA JUST @johanna_just @bartlettarchucl #cube094 occupies the typology of the #substation as a place where learning can take root: 🔋 "As substations become harder and harder to hide, the design proposes to reinhabit/ repurpose this micro typology by creating a laboratory for research institutes and universities where horticulturists, biologists and ecologists could conduct research on a niche ecological pocket. The particularity of this site arises from the high voltage, which might affect parameters such as conductivity and pH levels of the soil" 🔋 BY ELIF ONGUT @elifongut #volume64

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