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Passive Climate Control and the City
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The City as Energy Landscape Exhibition
AUTHOR: Prof. Sascha Roesler, Dr. Lorenzo Stieger
CONTEXT: Exhibition at Accademia di Architettura (Mendrisio), September 14 - October 30, 2020
The 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, which integrates technological systems and natural processes.