Urban energy

Not everybody can or choose to live in an isolated self sufficient house...And cities can in fact be a good thing for the environment as they shelter humans on greater density, sparing some land for natural ecosystem. P O S I T I V A R C H I wants to show that cities can work with nature, how the proud façades of our skyscrapers can produce green energy for the whole neighborhood. The roof of our buildings can catch and store precious rainwater, our lifts can feed back batteries by their movement, everyone can make a change.

 energy positive green building cladded in pv cells

Moved By Joburg project. MoByJo tower (right)  with its 173m heigh photovoltaic façade can produce more than 1 GWh per year. That is enough to share electricity  with the new neighborhood  planned  over five square  kilometers between Johannesburg CBD and Soweto.

energy positive urban and transport plan

 

Not everybody can or choose to live in an isolated self sufficient house...And cities can in fact be a good thing for the envirronnement as they shelter humans on greater density, sparing some land for natural ecosystem. P O S I T I V A R C H I wants to show that cities can work with nature, how the proud facades of our skyscraper can produce green energy for the whole neighbourhood. The roof of our buildings can catch and store precious rainwater, our lifts can feed back the system by their movement, everyone can make a change.