Solar-powered architecture
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Project • By Giancarlo Zema Design Group • Exhibition Centres
ANAS Smart Road Center
The Smart Road Center in Rome is the first campus in Europe dedicated to the development and promotion of ANAS Smart Road and Green Island technologies. An educational and exhibition space, where you can get to know and touch high design elements from the most advanced technologies for Smart City, from Smart Poles to emotional Smart urban furnishings with photovoltaic technology. The challenge was to integrate and make the traditional character of rural architecture, widely spread throughout the territory, interact with each other with the Smart future through the recovery and inclusion of innovative and design solutions.
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The redevelopment project, signed by the architect Giancarlo Zema, involved the renovation of... More
Project • By Giancarlo Zema Design Group • Transports
Hamamelis
Hamamelis is the innovative solar-powered vertiport from which electric drone-taxis and vertical take-off aircraft depart, as “seeds” of a new way of moving, autonomous and eco-sustainable, promoted by the company Walle Mobility, the first Italian Air-Taxi service for the transport of people and goods. Designed by the famous architecture firm Giancarlo Zema Design Group, it is inspired by the tapered fruit of the Hamamelis, a plant of Chinese origin capable of launching its seeds remotely to perpetuate the species. An eco-sustainable project with organic and emotional shapes with large photovoltaic surfaces, multi-function, contains within itself a series of common areas, reception, cafeteria, restaurant, exhibition spaces, surr... More
Project • By Giancarlo Zema Design Group • Transports
Baobab
The Chinese giant EHang (NASDAQ: EH) world leader in autonomous air vehicles (“AAV”), launches the first Eco Air Tourist Experience, entrusting the famous Italian architecture firm, Giancarlo Zema Design Group (GZDG) with the design of innovative eco-sustainable vertiports that produce energy and recharge the drones wirelessly. This is how Baobab was born, the first vertiports that integrate into nature: large technological trees on which splendid “birds” rest and feed to admire the large green parks and natural reserves from above. A real revolution in the Air Mobility sector. Baobab stands out in the sky with a 30m high tower, with a steel and laminated wood structure, with 360° windows, refined interiors with... More