在气候变化、通货膨胀和武装冲突的背景下,全球能源系统正在发生变革并面临审视。正如联合国指出,建筑的供暖、照明和供电必须依靠清洁、普及、经济、可持续且可靠的能源。建筑与城市规划既有助于扩大能源获取途径,也有助于探索不同的储能形式。总部位于多伦多的初创公司 Civic Grid 致力于设计和建造储能系统,旨在改变社区与日常电力之间的关系。他们的首个“建筑电池”作为公共建筑,由建筑师 Jack Self、Josh Harskamp 以及工业设计师 Max Fine 共同设计。该原型是由他们与里斯本民防局为2025年里斯本建筑三年展共同开发的一套可部署能源系统的演进版本,目前仍在运行,并配有一个等比例模型。
OMA has won an international competition to design Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc, a bridge across the river Garonne in Bordeaux, France, that will link the municipalities of Bègles and Floriac. The 44m by 545m bridge, which will act as "a generous new public space" and "an urban planning intervention" for the city, giving priority to pedestrian traffic, is the first to be realized by OMA. It is scheduled for completion in 2018.
According to Clément Blanchet, director of OMAFrance, the bridge "is not the ‘event’ in the city, but a platform that can accommodate events of the city [...it] may be the least technical, least lyrical, but [it is] the most concise and effective structural solution.”
The architect's description of the project, after the break...