Enel hosts sustainable primary substation challenge
Enel Grids has announced a competition in their search for a new design and architectural concept for the construction of an innovative sustainable building system dedicated to primary substations.
According to the DSO’s grids company, the purpose of the challenge is the creation of new sustainable architectural concepts dedicated to primary substations.
The challenge will see entrants apply their proposed concepts and strategies around four case-study sites, each with their own individual settings and contexts.
In each site there will be an area where competitors are asked to propose new programmes with the appropriate architectural elements.
The primary goal of the challenge is the creation of a sustainable modular system that allows a high degree of versatility and replicability, a necessary requirement to adapt the buildings and architectural elements to their territorial contexts.
The system must be able to house all the required electrical equipment of the primary substations and at the same time needs to improve the visual, functional and spatial impact of these installations upon their surrounding areas.
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With the redesign of the primary substations, parts of the sites occupied by buildings, electrical infrastructure or local generation will be released for new uses and opened to local communities as, for example, public spaces, green areas, playgrounds and charging stations.
The design needs to take inspiration from such key concepts as:
- industrial architectural innovation
- eco-sustainable and socio-cultural development
- environment-territory integration
- business-territory relationship
- corporate identity and image
- communication of corporate values.
Proposals will be evaluated by a jury, including representatives of Enel Grids and a number of personalities from universities, institutions and the design and architecture field.
The challenge is reserved for engineers, architects, designers, startups, scaleups and SMEs, and industrials incorporated in any country, acting both as natural and/or legal persons.
Entries for the competition ends 15 November 2022, 11:59 PM (Central European Time), and those successful will win up to €40,000 ($39, 530). Late submissions will not be considered.
