Open public spaces and street furniture: the potential for increased use of photovoltaics in the built environment
✍ Scribed by C. Abbate-Gardner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 745 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1062-7995
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✦ Synopsis
The trend toward industrializing architectural components, the increasing complexity and multifunctional purpose of buildings and the concern for the COZ emissions common to our cities is pushing design research to experiment with new environmentally friendly construction technology.
Current experiments in integrating photovoltaic ( P V ) systems in buildings and the built environment have already been proven to ofer numerous advantages.
This article focuses on the notable flexibility and adaptability of PV integration in urban structures due to the features of its industrial components. To illustrate this point, I should like to ofer a brief overview of some selected examples of the use of P V in public open spaces to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve a positive integration with its environmental context, while enhancing the architectural quality of the PV material and respecting its technological eflciency.
he artifacts of each age, whether tools or facilities for the use of people, reflect the knowledge and civilization of the times. While architecture and structures are strongly connected to a particular space, these artifacts are T temporary and do not stand still. As the antithesis of architecture, they do not occupy a specific space but are mobile and expand their iduence. They affect their surrounding and even modify them.. . . In this sense, artifacts are very influential. . . .While a building is designed to enclose a specific space, an artifact creates space around it. And now artifacts,. . . .have begun to establish a new urban environment.'