The climate crisis will be the main driver of social pressure in the next twenty years. Large-scale urban coal tarred areas contribute immensely to the heat island effect and to excessive carbon emissions. One of the strategies that can guarantee results, in short term, is introducing energy generating galleries that can transform urban districts into power generators. Urban centres have a great capacity to be converted into beneficial galleries that can generate electricity using renewable sources and house within them a micro-climatic atmosphere that encourages urban agriculture. The present study provides possible solutions and applications of this approach through parametric model design and its simulated computer sided analysis in order to produce results for power generation (energy- plus), and overall benefits of comfort of proposing Power Plant Greenhouse Solar Galleries. The Energy Gallery project aims at identifying the potential of a new strategic design for energy generation at a urban scale. By strategically locating energygenerating/reducing systems like modular pavilions, green houses, winter gardens, or public facilities in the city's open spaces, we could reduce dioxide emissions by lowering the energy consumption due to public events and activities that are held inside. This would in turn increase energy generated by renewable sources and local food production, and at the same time ensure higher standards of comfort both inside and outside the pavilion. From the structural point of view, the pavilion is essentially made by a series of portals composed by TVT truss beam elements (Trave Vitrea Tensegrity - Tensegrity Glass Beam), designed and patented by M.Froli who leaded a research project at the University of Pisa aimed at the development of large spanned yet ductile glass beams. The original idea of the TVT constructional system consists in dry assembling laminated glass panels held together just by prestressed steel rods, according to the principle of Tensile Integrity [1],[2]. The entire project could be made thanks to a co-funding of the Tuscany Region [3] to let little or mean Tuscan manufacturers access to high tech projects and is presently owned by Roberglass Ltd.
The Energy Gallery: a pilot project in Pisa
FROLI, MAURIZIO;
2014-01-01
Abstract
The climate crisis will be the main driver of social pressure in the next twenty years. Large-scale urban coal tarred areas contribute immensely to the heat island effect and to excessive carbon emissions. One of the strategies that can guarantee results, in short term, is introducing energy generating galleries that can transform urban districts into power generators. Urban centres have a great capacity to be converted into beneficial galleries that can generate electricity using renewable sources and house within them a micro-climatic atmosphere that encourages urban agriculture. The present study provides possible solutions and applications of this approach through parametric model design and its simulated computer sided analysis in order to produce results for power generation (energy- plus), and overall benefits of comfort of proposing Power Plant Greenhouse Solar Galleries. The Energy Gallery project aims at identifying the potential of a new strategic design for energy generation at a urban scale. By strategically locating energygenerating/reducing systems like modular pavilions, green houses, winter gardens, or public facilities in the city's open spaces, we could reduce dioxide emissions by lowering the energy consumption due to public events and activities that are held inside. This would in turn increase energy generated by renewable sources and local food production, and at the same time ensure higher standards of comfort both inside and outside the pavilion. From the structural point of view, the pavilion is essentially made by a series of portals composed by TVT truss beam elements (Trave Vitrea Tensegrity - Tensegrity Glass Beam), designed and patented by M.Froli who leaded a research project at the University of Pisa aimed at the development of large spanned yet ductile glass beams. The original idea of the TVT constructional system consists in dry assembling laminated glass panels held together just by prestressed steel rods, according to the principle of Tensile Integrity [1],[2]. The entire project could be made thanks to a co-funding of the Tuscany Region [3] to let little or mean Tuscan manufacturers access to high tech projects and is presently owned by Roberglass Ltd.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
