Project Description
FROM THE WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL:
70F Architecture’s proposed project looks to suspend vast arrays of solar panels above highways, rather than on fields, leaving farmland free for farming and doubling the ground-usage of infrastructure.
The secondary goal of the project is showing how sustainability can be beautiful as well as functional; the semi-transparent solar panels are placed in an open and airy angle, providing a cupola of light, air and rain ‘play’.
As a bonus the solar panel field creates a noise barrier of 18dB in relation to its surroundings, which is double that of a conventional highway noise reduction wall. This directly increases the quality and size of the buildable area next to the highway.