Project: Mountain 59N
MArch Architecture / Year 01 / Semester 01
Manchester School of Architecture
Atelier: Infrastructure Space Research

Mountain 59N is an understanding of Orkney Islands’ current renewable energy context and its huge potential in energy generation. Accompanying this potential and major shift towards renewable energy are a number of issues and difficulties such as the curtailment of wind turbines and the low energy capacity of the sub-ocean cables that export energy to Mainland Scotland.

The proposal responds to these issues and acts as a paradigm shift in the way we perceive, install, use, experience renewable energy sources and adds new ways to interact with them by implementing them in our everyday lives.

The idea is simple: buy cheap energy when demand is low, store it (in Tesla Powerpacks) and sell it back at a higher price when demand is high. The amount of energy storage units within the site correspond to the number of households that can be provided with a bridge in the Gross Domestic Income shortfall, between the Highlands and Central London, of seven-thousand pounds.