70F Architects, Holland, Building, Almere Design Studio, Dutch Architecture Office, Projects
70F Architecture
Contemporary Dutch Architects Practice – Almere Design Office in The Netherlands, Europe
70F News
70F Architects News
12 Dec 2018

70F architecture wins World Architecture Festival X-award 2018
Dutch architecture studio 70F architecture won the WAFX-award 2018. Solar panels above the highway was chosen as best project in the ?Climate, Energy and Carbon? category. The award was presented at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam on Thursday the 29th of November.
Solar panels above the highway by Dutch architecture studio 70F architecture, winner of the WAFX-award 2018:

image courtesy of 70F Architecture Solar panels above the highway offers an alternative for solar panel fields that take over valuable land in densely populated areas. At the end of 2018 NUON/Vattenfall adopted the concept that was developed already in 2015, and became the principle client.

image courtesy of architects
Except for the double use of the land that infrastructure takes up in general, the concept offers a substantial noise reduction (-18dB) to its surroundings and shows how sustainability can be beautiful as well. The first execution is planned above the A6 highway in Almere, at the future International Horticultural Expo ?Floriade?.

image courtesy of architects
The WAFX award is awarded to future projects that identify key ecological and societal challenges which archit...