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27th EU PVSEC – 25/09/12

Concept

HOW TO USE PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR SHAPING NEARLY ZERO ENERGY COMMUNITIES.

Day: Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Time: 13:30 – 18:00

Access: Open to all registered participants (Conference delegates, Exhibitors and Exhibition visitors) of the 27th EU PVSEC

 

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 Workshop is jointly organised by ENEA, the European Commission JRC, ETA-Florence Renewable Energies and the EU PVSEC.

Programme

ADDRESS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS – INTERNATIONAL WORK PROGRAMME ARCHITECTURE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES, UIA-ARES

INTRODUCTION
Heinz Ossenbrink
European Commission JRC | Ispra | ITALY

THE CONCEPT
Alessandra Scognamiglio
Scientific Organizer of the event | ENEA | Portici | ITALY

PRESENTATIONS

Nikos Fintikakis
Architect | UIA Council Member | Director of UIA-RES International Work Programme | Athens | GREECE
GLOBAL SOLAR BUILDING LANDMARKS FROM A UIA PERSPECTIVES

Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Co-Principals | Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) | New York | USA
THE BEAUTY OF ZERO ENERGY: THE AESTHETIC INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE INTO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Networking Coffee Break

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 | Berkeley | USA
POWER STRANDS

CONCLUDING REMARKS

moderator
Roberto Zancan
Deputy editor | Domus | Milan | ITALY

Speakers

Heinz OSSENBRINK

Dr. Heinz Ossenbrink, born in 1951, has a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin and joined the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in 1982. He built up the JRC’s activity on Photovoltaics when Europe started its research and pilot programme for Photovoltaic systems. In 1995 he became Head of the Unit for Renewable Energy, and expanded research and support activities to Energy Efficiency and Bio-Energy, notably Biofuels. His work is dedicated to the scientific support of EU legislation for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency. More recently, he is developing the unit’s portfolio to support Africa’s efforts for a renewable energy supply.
Since 1982 he is contributing to the standards work of the IEC TC82, Solar Photovoltaic Systems, in particular regarding calibration of reference cells and lifetime testing of PV modules. His many publications cover measurement and testing methods for photovoltaic generators, economic assessment of renewable energy and global environmental impacts of extended bio-fuel use.
From 1995 he has been serving as Programme Chair of the prestigious series of European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conferences and in 2005 he commenced and still continues his term assisting the Programme Chair of the prestigious series of European Biomass Conferences.
He lives on the shores of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy where he practices sailing and skiing, and is deeply interested in global sustainability issues.

Alessandra SCOGNAMIGLIO

Architect, PhD in Technologies for Architecture and Environment. Since 2000 she works as researcher at ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Solar Technologies Area / www.enea.it
The main field of activity is Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) and Ecobuildings design.
In particular, she designs photovoltaic modules for building integration and architectural solutions for Photovoltaics, where the visual and multifunctional aspects of Photovoltaics have to be carefully taken into account. Furthermore, since 2007 she investigates the topic Energy-Landscapes, with a special focus on Photovoltaics and agricultural greenhouses.
She is involved in activities of promotion and dissemination of knowledge about Photovoltaics, and, particularly, she is teacher for educational/professional courses promoted by ENEA about Photovoltaics and Renewables.
She gives lectures, seminars and presentations in national and international conferences and events.

Elizabeth MONOIAN

She is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who is currently working on large-scale international public art projects that both address and expose models of environmental sustainability. Her work has been screened and exhibited in venues throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the United States.
Elizabeth is the founder and director of Society for Cultural Exchange, a non-profit organization that is developing international exchanges between communities, academics and artists. She is the Principal and Co-Founder of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI). LAGI is a worldwide public arts initiative that offers the opportunity for collaborative teams of artists, architects, landscape architects and designers, working with engineers and scientists, to create new ways of thinking about what renewable energy generation looks like. The LAGI project calls on design teams to conceive of large-scale public artworks for specific sites that, in addition to their conceptual beauty, also have the ability to harness clean renewable energy from nature, convert the energy to electrical power, and distribute the power to the utility grid of the city. The project has been in feature articles in numerous international press outlets, including The New York Times and Dwell Magazine. Elizabeth received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Robert FERRY

He is the Co-Founder of the Land Art Generator Initiative and Studied Impact.His focus is on designing buildings that go above and beyond current popular notions of sustainability to achieve complete harmony with their local and global environments and with the people that use them. His designs of “positive-impact” buildings that double as renewable energy power-plants have been featured in “Superlative Emirates” (Daab Publishing), several Popular Science Magazine articles, and have been shown at international exhibits. The Land Art Generator Initiative has been in feature articles in numerous international press outlets, including The New York Times and Dwell Magazine. While based in the UAE, he has consulted on such projects as Masdar City and ADNOC HQ. Robert is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a licensed architect.

Julian WORRALL

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study,
Waseda University, Tokyo, JAPAN

Australian architect and writer based in Tokyo, where he is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Waseda University’s Institute for Advanced Study and runs the research-based practice LLLABO. His research is broadly concerned with the construction of Japanese modernity, using architecture and urban space as lenses through which to interpret linkages between spatial and social phenomena. Current interests include mapping the cultures and landscapes of urban infrastructures; regional revitalisation through contemporary art and architecture; and the architectural and spatial responses to contemporary conditions of displacement and mobility, pursued through a mix of scholarly research, critical writing, and design practice.

Walter HOOD

Director Hood Design, Oakland
Professor College of Environmental Design,
University of California, Berkeley,USA

Landscape architect, founding principal of Hood Design and professor and former chair of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of California-Berkeley. Hood was the recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Design in 2009.

Walter HOOD

Architect
UIA Council Member
Director of UIA – ARES International Work Programme
Athens, GREECE

Architect, studied at the National Technical University of Athens and post-graduated at the Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh. He is senior partner and Managing Director of “Synthesis and Research Ltd” G. Albanis – N. Fintikakis and Partners Architects – Consulting Engineers (www.syntres.gr).