SolarVille Prototipo de Comunidade Enerxética Solar by Space10

SolarVille Prototipo de Comunidade Enerxética Solar by Space10 is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronce in Deseño de Produtos, Proxectos e Dispositivos Enerxéticos Competition Category.

BronceEnerxía· 2020

SolarVille Prototipo de Comunidade Enerxética Solar

by Space10

Client: Space10

A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Enerxía Category

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The Design

About SolarVille Prototipo de Comunidade Enerxética Solar

SolarVille é un prototipo funcional dunha comunidade enerxética alimentada por enerxía solar, construído a escala 1:50. Algunhas casas de SolarVille contan con paneis solares no tellado, inversores e sistemas de almacenamento en baterías, polo que estes fogares producen e comercializan enerxía limpa. Outras casas compran a electricidade xerada nas proximidades. Un sistema de cableado conecta as casas nunha microrrede autónoma, e a tecnoloxía blockchain rexistra e xestiona cada transacción enerxética. SolarVille amosa como unha comunidade local pode chegar a ser autosuficiente e manter o gasto enerxético dentro da propia comunidade.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronce

SolarVille Prototipo de Comunidade Enerxética Solar gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que SolarVille Prototipo de Comunidade Enerxética Solar sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. SolarVille Prototipo de Comunidade Enerxética Solar satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Solarville showcases how combining solar panels with blockchain technology could make clean energy more affordable and accessible for the many. SolarVille is a fully functioning prototype, built to a 1:50 scale: some households have installed solar panels to become makers and traders of clean energy, while others automatically purchase the electricity generated in their local community. As a result, SolarVille is a cooperative micro-grid that makes a community self-sufficient.
Dimensions & Packaging: Pallet #1 W80cm x L130cm x H200cm
Pallet #2 W80cm x L130cm x H170cm

Otherwise table on its own has a footprint of 300cm x 150cm
Production Technology: Solarville is made thorugh outfitting houses within a community with rooftop solar panels and inverters that harness the energy of the sun and store it within batteries systems found under the home. This energy can then be redistributed through a wiring system connected to other households, creating a standalone micro-grid. Blockchain distributed ledger technology is then used to log and manage the energy flow—verifying and recording transactions, and self-executing when certain conditions are met.
Design Challenge: An important design decision was to develop an inclusive architectural language that combined building details and city structures from different cultures and countries—so SolarVille didn’t speak to one part of the world while alienating others. We compiled a comparative study with well known and celebrated city structures from around the world, building a small archive of unique building details that spoke to cultural contexts on a global scale.
Research: Alongside the project, we’ve also released a report called ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’, which lends more insights into the research behind SolarVille. More importantly, it makes the case for solar power becoming the viable, sustainable source of energy we need to turn to if we want to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Inspiration: Today, around 1.1 billion people around the world still have little or no access to electricity. The challenge is that the centralised energy systems we have in place are often too slow and economically inadequate to reach the billion people who remain locked in energy poverty.Solarville presents a solution to this global problem. Alongside empowering people with electricity, the community buys its electricity from within, which means the money stays in the community.
Project Duration: Project began in September 2018 and launched February 2019. Solarville is now going on tour and will be shown first in Nairobi at the UN Habitat, and then will move on to locations such as Delhi and Shenzhen.
Operation Flow: Solarville reimagines energy systems in the pursuit of democratising access to clean energy and empowering hyper-localized economies in order to meet this steep demand. To do this, Solarville utilises two key developments: combining solar power with blockchain technology to create cooperative micro-grids in local communities, which is both tamper free, secure against hacking and protected against central governance.
Team Members: SPACE10
Blockchain Labs for Open Collaboration (BLOC)
WeMoveIdeas India
Blocktech
Temporal
SachsNottveit