Endesa Pavilion

ENDESA PAVILION

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC)

Endesa Pavilion
 © Adrià Goula

PHOTOGRAPHS
Adrià Goula

YEAR
2011

CATEGORY
Research Center

LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain

Endesa Pavilion
© Adrià Goula

ENDESA Pavilion is a self-sufficient solar prototype installed at the Marina Dock, within the framework of the International BCN Smart City Congress.

Over a period of one year it will be used as control room for monitoring and testing several projects related to intelligent power management.

Endesa Pavilion
© Adrià Goula
Endesa Pavilion
© Adrià Goula

The pavillion is actually the prototype of a multi-scale construction system. A facade composed by modular components, like solar brick, that respond to photovoltaic gaining, solar protection, insulation, ventilation, lighting ...

The same parametric logic adapt façade geometries to the specific environmental requirements for each point of the building.

Endesa Pavilion
© Adrià Goula
Endesa Pavilion
© Adrià Goula

It is is a single component that integrates all levels of intelligence that the building needs.

From “form follows function” (classic XX century statement) to “form follows energy”. The facade opens reacting to the solar path, being active and becoming permeable towards south, while becoming closed and protective towards north. The behavior of this skin makes visible the environmental and climatic processes that surrounds the prototype.

Endesa Pavilion
© Adrià Goula


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