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Silvertown Battery Park is inspired by Saloman House, a fictional scientific institute imagined by Francis Bacon in his 1626 utopian novel New Atlantis, which envisions a future where science and technology improve and enrich quality of life.
The project imagines Silvertown Quays as a scientific testing ground, portraying every possible and impossible technology that could support the local off-grid energy system. Located at the centre of an area undergoing large-scale urban regeneration, Silvertown Battery Park is an innovative energy infrastructure and a vibrant public space for local communities.
The dockland waterscape and the site are turned into a solar panel blanket that captures the energy, and the five battery landscapes store the energy for off-peak usage. The techno-parkscape demonstrates bold and trivial science imagination in a playful and immersive way. The working infrastructure celebrates the industrial history of this area and ushers Silvertown into the next technological era.
As a modern version of Saloman’s House, Penguin Island ‘possesses every possible and impossible technology that one could think of’. It is a scientific institution that tests and demonstrates bold and trivial science imagination.
Energy infrastructure as a new mode of urban landscape and public space.
The park is composed of four layers of architectural elements: a grid walkway system, a solar panel surface with green edges, a toolkit architecture layer, and five battery landscapes.
Each battery landscape employs natural material as a renewable resource for energy storage. The technologies are demonstrated as spectacles, also combined with community facilities that can serve local people.
In Silvertown Battery Park, the invisible processes in energy infrastructure are turned into sensational experiences. The technologies are tested and demonstrated in performative landscapes.