Energy Afterlife : Choreographing the Geothermal Gradient of Reykjanes, Iceland

Abstract

Energy is the basis of life and the fuel for modern civilization. The energy industry is reconsidered by uncovering where operations can overlap and hybridize with other infrastructures, economies, and ecologies. Energy Afterlife explores the reutilization of geothermal effluent from Reykjanes Geothermal Power Plant in southwest Iceland. Reusing its residual energy creates a post-production, spin-off process that yields a new landscape formed by thermal principles and the compression and extension of its temperature gradient. Algae cultivation and production, revegetation strategies, and temperature’s experiential qualities are interwoven to form a thermal resource park. Heat is reexamined as an invisible, phenomenological design material, which can be captured, contained, and released through conduction, convection, and radiation properties and techniques inherent in particular materials and forms.

Keywords

Energy / Energy Life Cycle / Geothermal / Microclimates / Temperature / Gradients

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Higher Education Press