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The Bod Battery
Fall 2022
Advisor: Francesca Benedetto
The Bog Battery proposes a transition away from falling cranberry production in the Wareham region towards a landscape of renewable energy production and storage. The project leverages the already existing heavily manufactured topography and hydrology of cranberry bogs and their connected stream systems as vehicles for the storage of excess and resultantly wasted renewable energy. This space becomes intimately entangled with a network of proposed renewable micro-generation sites in the surrounding community. These sites take advantage of cleared and underused spaces that each propose unique opportunities to integrate a new network of power production within all corners of the urban fabric.
The project is deeply in consideration of energy, and energy infrastructure as a public good and a collective shared effort. The project looks to bring these conversations to the public realm, through the establishment of the Bog Battery as a fully accessible public space and through the visibility of microgeneration in the public realm of the larger community, shining light on both the labour of this process and the collectivity of infrastructure. The project is imagined in phases, conversions taking place as farmers exit the industry, building a new energy urbanism one bog at a time.
Site 1: Micro-Generation
Site 2: Bog Battery Storage
