This special event, that highlights the interaction of PV systems with buildings and landscape, will outline the vision of a transition from PV architecture into urban and non-urban landscapes and how architects take up this challenge.
In a future Zero Energy Building scenario it is considered that PV solar energy covers the energy needs of the living space (electricity services, heating and cooling).

How could buildings look like to incorporate this energy source? How would out-of-city landscapes offer opportunities to satisfy the energy-hunger?

At the moment, the traditional domain of architecture design takes into account only the physical space we live in, that we can envision with our traditional tools, and, in the end, ‘categorise’ and ‘touch’. For the net zero energy challenge, in consequence, architectural design needs to foresee for each m² of a ‘designed’ space about 2.5m² more ‘energy-surfaces’, which are generally neither envisioned nor designed. We need a shift of perspective and to learn how to combine the design for the space we live in, and the space for generating the energy. We cannot leave the energy generation in a technological corner where design has no role, and where the forms of our cities and our landscapes would be affected in a way which the public does not accept, making fail all positive aspects of the net zero energy community.
The realization of the 2021-Nearly Zero Energy Buildings objective is a great challenge, but at the same instance also a unique opportunity for a new school of performative design. Energy, in fact, has a new, more than symbolic and societal meaning, that can be made visible by design beyond traditional architectural categories. It develops new visions appropriate for the needs of today.

As an official event of the 27th EU PVSEC, the Photovoltaics, Forms, Landscapes Parallel Event is jointly organised by ENEA, ETA-Florence Renewable Energies and the EU PVSEC with an introduction of JRC European Commission.

Programme Outline

Moderator
Roberto Zancan
DOMUS, Italy

Welcome and Introduction
Heinz Ossenbrink
European Commission JRC, Italy

Presentation
Alessandra Scognamiglio
Scientific Organizer of the event
ENEA, Italy

with

Nikos Fintikakis
UIA Council Member
Director of UIA – ARES International Work Programme, Athens, Greece

Julian Worrall
Associate Professor - Architecture and Urban Studies
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Photovoltaics as Public Space: Solar Infrastructures in the Post-Fukushima Era

Walter Hood
Director, Hood Design, Oakland
Professor, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkley, USA
Power Strands

Concluding Remarks

For further information:

Angela Grassi,
ETA-Florence Renewable Energies, Italy
angela.grassi@etaflorence.it

Alessandra Scognamiglio
ENEA, Italy
alessandra.scognamiglio@enea.it