INSPIRING SOLAR ARCHITECTURE. A NEW SWISS WEB-PLATFORM FOR SOLAR BUILDINGS AND BIPV EXEMPLARY SHOWCASES

With the Support ofA Project of:

VISION New technological possibilities and inspiring projects of solar architecture have been created and need to be promoted in order to captivate architects, showing the architectural quality of a multidisciplinary approach bridging energy, design and con-struction.

GOAL The main goal of this project is to promote solar construction by inspiring ar-chitects with the presentation of attractive contents and good practices (showcases)

aimed to firstly motivate architects (main goal-first stage) and secondarily to provide useful information and knowledge (second goal-progressive implementation). The plan is to create motivation, keep in-terest and raise awareness, by supporting the architects (and secondarily also differ-ent stakeholders and decision makers) on the capabilities, potentials and strengths of solar integration in contemporary architecture and building skin in order to enhance the transfer and foster a wider application of such tech-

nologies in construction projects.We see the establishment of an innovative Swiss web platform as a key for the promotion and fur-ther development of solar architecture.

CONTENTS The web-platform will focus on exemplary showcases primarily to inspire architects and also as a mean to elaborate other contents such as BIPV prod-ucts or useful information: technical devel-opments, innovative applications, marketing aspects, etc.).

Inspiration: launch of the beta version of the web platform

2018Information: contents’ imple- mentation and collaboration with stakeholders for the development.

2019Knowledge: strategic contents’ implementation (e.g. scientific and thematic focuses, examples’ and products’ databases, social media, tools, etc.)

2020The running web platform will be regularly updated and maintained.

2021PROJECT STEPS

F. Frontini 1, P. Bonomo 1, I. Zanetti 1, A. Hekler 2, D. Studer 31 Institute of Applied Sustainability to the Built Environment (ISAAC) – Swiss BiPV Competence Centre, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), CH-6952 Canobbio

2 Swissolar / Schweizerischer Fachverband für Sonnenenergie, Geschäftsstelle, Neugasse 6, CH-8005 Zürich

3 Bautechnologie und Konstruktion, ITA / Departement für Architektur, ETH Zurich / HIL E 45.2, Stefano Franscini Platz 5, CH-8093 Zürich

info@solarchitecture.ch

“Technology… is not only a useful means… has a meaning and a powerful form… Is that still technology or is it architecture? Wherever technology reaches its real fulfil-ment, it transcends into architecture. Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names. Architecture depends on its time. That is the reason why technology and architecture are so closely related. Our real hope is that they grow together, that someday the one be the expression of the other. Only then will we have an architecture worthy of its name: Architecture as a true symbol of our time” Mies van der Rohe, 1950

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Sources:

1. Residential building Solaris 416 in Zurich. Photo: Beat Bühler

2. Umwelt Arena in Spreitenbach. Photo: Michael Egloff

3. Residential Building in Zurich. Photo: Nina Mann, Viridén+Partner AG

4. Residential building Solaris 416 in Zurich. Photo: Beat Bühler

5. Solares Direktgewinnhaus in Zweisimmen. Photo: n11 architekten gmbh

6. Z3 HQ Office Building in Stuttgart. Photo: Construct PV

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