The Twilt Tower
© Paolo Venturella . Published on August 11, 2013.
A building in a modern area in the outskirts of Rome, in the “E.U.R.” (Esposizione Universale Roma, in 1942), known as the “Eurosky tower” by Franco Purini, in our point of view is not realized according to the principles of “integration” architecture/renewable energy. This creates a strange, no sense residential tower looking like a boring box with on top a photovoltaic panel not designed for the tower itself.. It looks like that in the main design was not foreseen a photovoltaic panel system and it is just placed after all. That creates a design we don’t believe in, a design where the shape does not come out from its function. All this generated in us a deep idiosyncrasy against this architecture. What we propose is to make it fall down and replace with a similar in the function but radically different in the shape tower. The “Twilt Tower” (since twisted and tilted) integrates the photovoltaic panels not just in the facade but even in the volume. The idea of tilting and rotating the panels towards the solar rays, to allow direct sun radiation during the whole day, deforms the building making the idea and the architecture a unique thing. The outcome is a fabulous cutting edge design that demonstrates how a building can express a concept in a contemporary rather futuristic way. Far from academic visions where the new is not accepted, far from wrong interpretation of the history of architecture that made became the city of Rome from the most vanguardist city in the world to the most obsolete, we propose a new revolutionary design to allow the city of Rome to find again its own old splendor, leading it to a new pioneering city as it was in the passed century. Rome was not built in a day, lets make it born again!
© Paolo Venturella . Published on August 11, 2013.
© Paolo Venturella . Published on August 11, 2013.
1- Placing a huge photovoltaic panel on the top does not comply the integration between architecture and renewable energy elements. 2-Moving the photovoltaic panels on the facade allows a better integration on the building and a more efficient photovoltaic system. 3-Extruding the panels creates the space where residential units are placed, with terraces facing the sun and views on the city on the other side. 4-Twisting the blocks guarantees that PV panels face the sun during the all day exposing the most surface possible to solar radiation.
© Paolo Venturella . Published on August 11, 2013.