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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6784-1598
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Architecture
Degree Type
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
Year Degree Awarded
2021
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
Energy storage is becoming a crucial element to the renewable energy grid, and new facilities will have to go somewhere. This thesis will propose to co-locate compressed air energy storage on a site with residential units, and a community park.
This thesis will make the argument that co-locating a compressed air energy storage system with residential units could create a new start for the communities most harmed by fossil fuel infrastructure. This thesis will propose a design for a site in East Boston; a community badly scarred by heating oil and natural gas storage; with the goal of creating a model for healing both the physical site, and the social injustices created by the fossil fuel grid, arguing for using compressed air energy storage as both a spatial and an economic resource.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/22863994.0
First Advisor
Erika Zekos
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Slover, Connor S., "Exploring the Use of Grid-Scale Compressed Air Energy Storage in the Urban Landscape" (2021). Masters Theses. 1074.
https://doi.org/10.7275/22863994.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1074