Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design Goes to SolarVille Sustainable Energy Community by Space10
Space10 recognized for energy products, projects and devices design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design category for SolarVille Sustainable Energy Community by Space10. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding SolarVille Sustainable Energy Community
SolarVille is a working prototype of a solar powered energy community, built at 1:50 scale. Some houses in SolarVille carry rooftop solar panels, inverters and battery storage, so these homes produce and trade clean energy. Other houses buy the electricity generated nearby. A wiring system links the houses into a standalone micro grid, and blockchain technology records and manages each energy transaction. SolarVille shows how a local community can become self sufficient and keep energy spending within the community.
Award Record
With this recognition, Space10 is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design Award
The A' Energy Design Award is an international competition recognizing good energy products, projects and services by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to energy product designers, energy device engineers, industrial design studios and energy systems architects from all countries. Entries typically include solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric generators, geothermal systems, bioenergy converters and fuel cells. Awarded energy product designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/energy
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/92742
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/92742
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!92742
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/251507
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://space10.com/project/solarville/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- SolarVille Sustainable Energy Community
- Function
- Sustainable Energy Community
- Category
- Energy Products, Projects and Devices Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sustainability and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Light Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Rosy Brown and Gray
- Images
- 4
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Space10
- Country
- Denmark
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #92742
Credits
- Team
- Blockchain Labs for Open Collaboration (BLOC), WeMoveIdeas India, Blocktech, Temporal and SachsNottveit
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Solarville showcases how combining solar panels with blockchain technology could make clean energy more affordable and accessible for the many. SolarVille is a fully functioning prototype, built to a 1:50 scale: some households have installed solar panels to become makers and traders of clean energy, while others automatically purchase the electricity generated in their local community. As a result, SolarVille is a cooperative micro-grid that makes a community self-sufficient.
- Inspiration
- Today, around 1.1 billion people around the world still have little or no access to electricity. The challenge is that the centralised energy systems we have in place are often too slow and economically inadequate to reach the billion people who remain locked in energy poverty.Solarville presents a solution to this global problem. Alongside empowering people with electricity, the community buys its electricity from within, which means the money stays in the community.
- Research
- Alongside the project, we’ve also released a report called ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’, which lends more insights into the research behind SolarVille. More importantly, it makes the case for solar power becoming the viable, sustainable source of energy we need to turn to if we want to mitigate the effects of climate change.
- Challenge
- An important design decision was to develop an inclusive architectural language that combined building details and city structures from different cultures and countries—so SolarVille didn’t speak to one part of the world while alienating others. We compiled a comparative study with well known and celebrated city structures from around the world, building a small archive of unique building details that spoke to cultural contexts on a global scale.
- Realization and Technology
- Solarville is made thorugh outfitting houses within a community with rooftop solar panels and inverters that harness the energy of the sun and store it within batteries systems found under the home. This energy can then be redistributed through a wiring system connected to other households, creating a standalone micro-grid. Blockchain distributed ledger technology is then used to log and manage the energy flow—verifying and recording transactions, and self-executing when certain conditions are met.
- Operation and Interaction
- Solarville reimagines energy systems in the pursuit of democratising access to clean energy and empowering hyper-localized economies in order to meet this steep demand. To do this, Solarville utilises two key developments: combining solar power with blockchain technology to create cooperative micro-grids in local communities, which is both tamper free, secure against hacking and protected against central governance.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project began in September 2018 and launched February 2019. Solarville is now going on tour and will be shown first in Nairobi at the UN Habitat, and then will move on to locations such as Delhi and Shenzhen.
- Specifications
- Pallet #1 W80cm x L130cm x H200cm Pallet #2 W80cm x L130cm x H170cm Otherwise table on its own has a footprint of 300cm x 150cm
