A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Integrating photovoltaics into the built environment presents unique opportunities and challenges. Designers have to mediate between the functional demands of photovoltaics as solar devices and their architectural role as a building material. Photovoltaics are highly modular and will be used in large and small projects; their design will have to be considered at all scales. Solutions to these problems will change, for better or worse, the orientation and focus of the built environment. Here, the author examines whether buildings, now mostly indifferent or even hostile to their climate, will turn outward expressing their relationship to the Sun, or whether the landscape will be transformed into a sea of modules, fixed at monotonously optimized angles.
Integrating photovoltaics into the built environment presents unique opportunities and challenges. Designers have to mediate between the functional demands of photovoltaics as solar devices and their architectural role as a building material. Photovoltaics are highly modular and will be used in large and small projects; their design will have to be considered at all scales. Solutions to these problems will change, for better or worse, the orientation and focus of the built environment. Here, the author examines whether buildings, now mostly indifferent or even hostile to their climate, will turn outward expressing their relationship to the Sun, or whether the landscape will be transformed into a sea of modules, fixed at monotonously optimized angles.
The PV infrastructure: architecture from houses to highways
Die Photovoltaik-Infrastruktur: Architektur von Häusern zu Autobahnen
Kiss, G. (author)
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications ; 4 ; 259-268
1996
10 Seiten
Article (Journal)
English
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