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European Solar Prize 2017 – Premio per la categoria Solar Architecture and urban planning al progetto Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center di Renzo Piano, proposto da Eurosolar Italia Breve resoconto dell’attività Promuovere la riuscita implementazione delle energie rinnovabili - con questa intenzione EUROSOLAR ha premiato città, comuni, architetti, società e società private, associazioni, organizzazioni e cooperative, giornalisti e, naturalmente, cittadini che sostengono attivamente la transizione energetica con il Premio Solare negli ultimi 24 anni. I pionieri ed i leader del settore sono messi al centro dell'attenzione del pubblico e illustrano come sia possibile un uso realistico e praticabile dell'energia rinnovabile e come possa contribuire alla completa trasformazione del sistema energetico. Verso la fine di ogni anno, i vincitori del premio sono invitati ad un evento celebrativo in una città europea. Precedentemente tenutasi a Praga e Barcellona, quest'anno l'edizione del Premio Solare Europeo si terrà a Vienna, coordinata da Eurosolar Austria. Per l’edizione 2017, Eurosolar Italia ha promosso la candidatura del progetto dello Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, realizzato ad Atene nel 2016 dall’architetto italiano Renzo Piano, per la categoria Solar Architecture and urban planning del Premio Solare Europeo 2017. Il progetto è risultato vincitore e verrà premiato nella Cerimonia ufficiale organizzata a Vienna per il 18 novembre dall’Eurosolar presso la Technical University Vienna (Tu the Sky). Al mattino, si terrà un simposio sul tema "La transizione energetica in Europa". I relatori presenteranno e discuteranno potenzialità e soluzioni per un sistema energetico europeo sostenibile nei settori dell'architettura solare, della pianificazione urbana, dell'energia economica e della politica energetica. Il simposio sarà preceduto da una visita agli interessanti edifici dell'Università Tecnica di Vienna. La motivazione per l’assegnazione del premio da parte della Giuria è stata la seguente: “Uniting solar engineering and art to realize a public center for environmental sustainability and cultural life” (Unisce l’ingegneria e l’arte solare per realizzare un centro pubblico dedicato alla sostenibilità ambientale e alla vita culturale). Il premio dà lustro ad un importante progetto italiano realizzato in Grecia, che l’Eurosolar ha fortemente voluto promuovere per la sua significativa valenza architettonica, tecnologica, ambientale e culturale. Si allega la scheda del progetto elaborata dall’Eurosolar Italia per la candidatura, il verbale della seduta della Giuria internazionale che ha premiato il progetto e il flyer della Cerimonia di Premiazione. b20) Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Address Notes Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Salini Impregilo, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Athens Greece Proposed by EUROSOLAR Italy Internet Category: b) Solar Architecture and urban planning Projectnumber and -title: b20) Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Project overview: The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is a complex built in the bay of Phaliron in Athens which includes new facilities for the National Library of Greece and the National Opera. The Center in Athens was designed by architect Renzo Piano, built by Salini Impregilo as head of a joint-venture with Greek partner Terna and financed by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for 596 € million. After its completion in 2016, the project was donated to the Greek state. Plans for a big scale donation by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation started in 1998. Initially the foundation planned to make separate donations to the National Library and the National Opera. In 2006 it was decided to build one complex for both organizations and after discussions with the Greek state the area of the former horse racing track was chosen. In 2008 the foundation chose Italian architect Renzo Piano to design the complex and in 2012 construction works started. The building has been completed in 2016. Renzo Piano envisaged the SNFCC rising out of the ground like a dislodged piece of the earth’s crust. As a result, an artificial hill is constructed and the roof of both the library and the opera house is emerging from it maintaining the slope. The library is lower and the ‘hill’ concludes with the opera house. The canopy roof provides essential shade and is topped with 10.000 sq m of photovoltaic cells, enough to generate 1.5 megawatt of power for the library and opera house. This field of cells should allow the building to be self-sufficient in energy terms during normal opening hours. Wherever possible, natural ventilation is used. The complex obtained the LEED platinum certification in 2016. Video: http://www.salini-impregilo.com/static/upload/video/Stravos_Niarchos_Cultural_Centre.mp4 Virtual Tour: http://www.salini-impregilo.com/en/stavros-niarchos-cultural-center-virtual-tour.html Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Athens, Greece by RENZO PIANO The Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre is constructed in Kallithea, 4 km south of central Athens. An important cultural and educational project, the site comprises the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera in a 170,000 sq m landscaped park. Previously a parking lot left over from the 2004 Olympic Games, once the site of a racetrack, the project has restored the site’s lost connections with the city and the sea. As one of Athens’ earliest seaports on Faliro Bay, Kallithea has always had a strong relationship with the water. At present, however, despite its proximity, there is no view of the sea from the site. To restore this, an artificial hill has been created at the south (seaward) end of the site. The sloping park culminates in the cultural centre building, giving it spectacular views towards the sea. Both opera and library are combined in one building, with a public space, known as the Agora, providing access and connections between the two main facilities. The opera wing will be composed of two auditoria, one (450 seats) dedicated to traditional operas and ballets, the other (1400 seats) for more experimental performances. The library is intended not only as a place for learning and preserving culture, but also as a public resource, a space where culture is truly accessible to share and enjoy. The entirely glass-walled library reading room sits on top of the building just underneath the canopy roof. A square horizontal transparent box, it will enjoy 360-degree views of Athens and the sea. The site’s visual and physical connection with water will continue in the park with a new canal that will run along a north–south, main pedestrian axis, the Esplanade. The canopy roof provides essential shade and is topped with 10.000 sq m of photovoltaic cells, enough to generate 1.5 megawatt of power for the library and opera house. This field of cells should allow the building to be self-sufficient in energy terms during normal opening hours. Wherever possible, natural ventilation is used. The visual connection with the water continues to the park, where it focuses on a channel to the side of the Esplanade, the main pedestrian axis of the site, in the north-south direction. The complex obtained the LEED platinum certification in 2016. ____________________ tavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre – Athens Source: http://www.salini-impregilo.com/en/projects/in-progress/civil-industrial-buildings/stavros- niarchos-foundation-cultural-centre-athens.html The Centre is located in the Kallithea neighbourhood, not far from Athens centre. It aims at being an ideal connection between the city and the sea. The project was designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) and involves the construction of an ecologically sustainable multifunctional centre over a total area of 23 Hectares, largely devoted to a public park. The Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre is one of the works that best represents the integration of the futuristic vision of a great architect and the engineering excellence of a Group that is a leader in the large infrastructure sector. It ambitiously aims at becoming a cultural and artistic reference point in the Greek scenario, but also at a global level. It stands on the grounds that were previously the home of Athens’ old race-track. With its 23 Hectares, the Centre rises in the Kallithea neighbourhood, near the sea. Its strong points are this very vicinity to the sea and the fact that the Centre respects environmental sustainability principles. The project involves the construction of the Greek National Opera (33,000 m²), which includes a main 1,400-seat theatre and a 400-seat experimental theatre; the National Library (24,000 m²), capable of housing 750,000 books and a hillside park (approximately 170,000 m²) with 1,500 m² of buildings. Its structures were designed using the most advanced earthquake-proof techniques. One of the main topics that the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre tackles is environmental sustainability. The main buildings, the secondary buildings and the park were all designed keeping this in mind. The feature that most characterises the Centre, in this sense, is the Energy Canopy. The roof is built using ferro-cement. in terms of dimension and static complexity it is a unique example, and up to this day nothing like this has ever been built elsewhere in the world. The Centre’s roof is without any doubt a key element of the project: an architectural, engineering masterpiece but also so, for the building techniques used. The structure is made with light steel elements that connect two ferro-cement slabs, which are just a few centimetres thick and that form a kind of shell. It extends over a 2 skin 10.000 m² area. It weighs 3.500 tons and is supported by 30 steel columns with a maximum diameter of 30 cm. On top of these columns, there is a shock absorbing system that allows the entire structure to move if under the effect of thermal expansion, in case of strong wind and during earthquakes. The energy Canopy is covered with 5,560 photovoltaic panels, which are sufficient to generate 2,280 kwh of electricity each year, which will allow the buildings to be nearly entirely energy-independent during normal activity.