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Stadtwerke Heidelberg Tower
New Energy Storage Building Germany – design by LAVA
4 Aug 2017
Stadtwerke Heidelberg Energie Park + Storage Building
Design: LAVA with A24, White Void, Priedemann and Transsolar
Stadtwerke Heidelberg Energie Park + Building
BEACON OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE LAVA?S NEW ENERGY TOWER BREAKS GROUND
A new energy storage tower for Stadtwerke Heidelberg (SWH) in Heidelberg, Germany has broken ground.
?LAVA?s design will transform the new water tank, a cylindrical-shaped storage centre, into a dynamic sculpture, a city icon, a knowledge hub on sustainable energy, fully accessible to the public, a strong symbol of the transition towards renewables,? said Tobias Wallisser, director of LAVA.
Stadtwerke Heidelberg (SWH) operates an extensive regional heating network and is building the new heating storage Tower and Park due for completion by mid 2019. Energy created by solar and wind will be used to heat up the water and sell it as heat energy.

?This ‘knowledge store’ will replace a previous gas tank, a symbol of energy policy in the 1950s. Formally and geometrically the new water tank will not be much different from its predecessor. So this raised the challenge for us: How can the parameters of energy regeneration, decentrality, networking, flexibility and adaptivity be made visible in the design of the outer shell" How can an adaptive, dynamic system be produce...