The Gravity Bank
A public space sculpture that turns gravity into electricity through human interaction. The Gravity Bank combines personal-scale energy storage with a shared urban experience, inviting people to generate power while connecting with their surroundings.
How it works
When the pulling rope is released, the weights drop down slowly generating electricty in the process.
Empty
Chraging
Full
When all the weights fall to the bottom the energy storage is empty and no electricity is emitted. The rope can be pulled again to raise the weights up.
After all the weights are pulled to the top the charge is at maximum capacity and automatically released to discharge into the network or for personal use in the outlets.
Gravity
can be used as storage of energy in the form of potential energy. The gravity bank capitalizes on this by people pulling a rope to lift the weights, we use a turbine then to take the descending motion of the weights and turn it into electricity. This is very similar to a wind turbine, however not the wind that turns the turbine, it's the weights sliding motion.
Internal Mechanism
You can use then any of the three electric outlets to charge a phone or any device. In addition to the possibility of injecting the unused electricity back into the grid.
Established Prototype
An already functional prototype was already made for this entity, it can charge most low consumption batteries and devices including phones.
Rethinking Energy. Reimagining space
The Gravity Bank transforms gravity into a shared experience, turning energy storage into an opportunity for interaction, connection, and a more sustainable urban environment.
