14/09/2020
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31/10/2020
The City as Energy Landscape | Accademia di architettura
Exposition
Mendrisio
2020-09-14 00:00
2020-11-01 00:00
Europe/Paris
The City as Energy Landscape | Accademia di architettura
Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana
This exhibition promotes the notion of “energy landscape” as a conceptual framework to challenge our current understanding of energy as a cheap and abundant source for architecture. It presents concepts and methods for designing the energy landscapes of the future, taking the greater region of Geneva in Switzerland as its case study. While in the last few decades the discipline of architecture was mainly concerned with the self-sufficiency of individual buildings, the exhibition emphasizes the need for a new urban scale for saving energy, integrating technological systems and natural processes. Such a view relies on the idea of the productive urban environment, in which the built fabric, topography, soil, bodies of water, as well as the urban climate serve as potential energy resources.
Presented as a pictorial archive, energy landscapes appear as “palimpsests” (André Corboz) in which human-built systems and natural forces overlap. The visual documents and the additional mapping of energy infrastructures and local resources in Geneva are tools for representing an often-unseen territory and for designing the structure and dynamics of a specific energy ecology. Contributing to a contemporary environmental theory in architecture, the exhibition highlights aspects of the professorship’s long-term interests in climate and energy in architecture. Building on the professorship’s pedagogical approaches as developed since 2016, the show underlines the ambition to bring theory and practice in a fruitful exchange.
The exhibition’s structure relies on four main concepts for the design of future energy landscapes: energy infrastructures and energy commons (as the main components of contemporary energy landscapes), energy synergy (as a leading design methodology), and energy ecologies (as the main topic for energy-related design research). Investigations into energy ecologies promise new insights into the manifold intersections of energy infrastructures and energy commons, which could form the basis for future energy synergies in architecture.
Monday–Friday 10:00–12:00 & 13:30–18:00Free entrance upon registration. +41 58 6665820 logistica.me@usi.ch
Palazzo Canavée, Mendrisio
Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana
The City as Energy Landscape | Accademia di architettura
Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana
Palazzo Canavée, Mendrisio
This exhibition promotes the notion of “energy landscape” as a conceptual framework to challenge our current understanding of energy as a cheap and abundant source for architecture. It presents concepts and methods for designing the energy landscapes of the future, taking the greater region of Geneva in Switzerland as its case study. While in the last few decades the discipline of architecture was mainly concerned with the self-sufficiency of individual buildings, the exhibition emphasizes the need for a new urban scale for saving energy, integrating technological systems and natural processes. Such a view relies on the idea of the productive urban environment, in which the built fabric, topography, soil, bodies of water, as well as the urban climate serve as potential energy resources.
Presented as a pictorial archive, energy landscapes appear as “palimpsests” (André Corboz) in which human-built systems and natural forces overlap. The visual documents and the additional mapping of energy infrastructures and local resources in Geneva are tools for representing an often-unseen territory and for designing the structure and dynamics of a specific energy ecology. Contributing to a contemporary environmental theory in architecture, the exhibition highlights aspects of the professorship’s long-term interests in climate and energy in architecture. Building on the professorship’s pedagogical approaches as developed since 2016, the show underlines the ambition to bring theory and practice in a fruitful exchange.
The exhibition’s structure relies on four main concepts for the design of future energy landscapes: energy infrastructures and energy commons (as the main components of contemporary energy landscapes), energy synergy (as a leading design methodology), and energy ecologies (as the main topic for energy-related design research). Investigations into energy ecologies promise new insights into the manifold intersections of energy infrastructures and energy commons, which could form the basis for future energy synergies in architecture.
Monday–Friday 10:00–12:00 & 13:30–18:00
Free entrance upon registration.
+41 58 6665820
logistica.me@usi.ch
