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A Pattern Language for Solar Photovoltaics

Kirk Dimond
Landscape Journal, January 2021, 39 (1) 21-37; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/wplj.39.1.21
Kirk Dimond
LEED AP, is Assistant Professor in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona, where he teaches graduate-level design studios and site engineering and construction. His research involves landscape performance by evaluating social and ecological synergies and trade-offs in design decisions relating to ecology, energy, and water. Kirk is currently focusing on integrating solar photovoltaics into the built environment through exploration of land use colocation, such as agrivoltaics and other strategies.
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Renewable energy projects consume wide tracts of land in efforts to harvest low-density energy. These projects are generally implemented in a manner similar to conventional energy, with centralized yet remote locations to generate energy and large transmission infrastructure to convey energy from its source to its use. Although it is a promising technology for reducing atmospheric carbon and for clean energy production, utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems increasingly sprawl across farm land and natural habitat as isolated landscape features. This investigatory study seeks to create preliminary design principles to integrate PV development best practices into the built environment. Using Alexander, Ishikawa, and Silverstein’s theoretical framework from A Pattern Language (1977), I propose a new pattern for PV systems based on expert opinion and an exploration of current literature, theory, and practice. The resulting principles serve as a preliminary guide for PV development toward greater integration into urban landscape context and incorporation of synergistic embellishments for enhanced landscape depth and purpose. Such a pattern for PV design and planning encourages further exploration for future practice and policy to aid in reducing “energy sprawl” as growth in renewable energy systems continues to rise.

  • Renewable energy
  • design context
  • co-location
  • multifunctional space
  • urban integration
  • LIPV
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