Komló

My graduation project is the design of the architectural part of a complex, renewable-based energy system for a former mining town called Komló. I designed the electricity and district heat storage of the energy system taking advantage of the landscape wounds created in the past.

The main location is a gravity energy storage. Gravity storage works with the relationship between space and mass.Typically, concrete blocks or water are raised when there is overproduction of electricity, later they are lowered, driving a generator when electricity is needed.In my concept this technology could be made more efficient by using the two 800 meter deep vertical shafts of an abandoned mine in Komló to move the concrete blocks along a larger path, thus gaining more electricity.When coal mining ceased and the mine was privatized, the mine towers were demolished. In 2005, a biomass heating plant was added next to the buildings.\nBy installing the energy-storing weights, my goal was to make use of this existing infrastructure since it had a similar function.We developed new towers and a rail system with which the blocks slide to the shafts using their own weight, considering both spatial and mechanical aspects.The sloped rail pairs demarcates a capsule shaped space in which energy reeds have been planted to serve the biomass heating plant.The mechanisms of the new towers are similar to the old ones, however using significantly less material.The engine houses and the towers are connected by an elevated route. By following this route, we can get an insight into the operation of the entire system. Eight engines used to stand on huge legs in one of the engine houses. An insulated core, the cooperative house, would be built on top of this order of columns. The ventilation chimney and mechanical channel of the cooperative house penetrate through the holes where the engines used to stand. I also installed a seasonal heat storage in the local andesite mine. The stone and a large body of water store the excess heat of the local biomass power plant, and it can also be heated with solar collectors in the summer. This heat can be used throughout the winter.My main location, the gravity storage is focused on the relationship between an energetic object and the human environment. In the transformation of the ande