Check out the video presentation of the ‘Polis’ project. It’s the last of the five projects featured in the docu-film ‘Energy and design: building with integrated photovoltaics’, produced by SUPSI – Institute for Applied Sustainability in the Built Environment (ISAAC) – as part of the European Seamless-PV project.

This project in Pregassona is one of the public buildings which the largest facade-integrated photovoltaic system in Ticino and has an installed capacity of about 170 kWp, corresponding to a surface area of over 1600 square metres.
The Municipality of Lugano chose to change the planned facade concept from a classic fibre-cement sheet cladding to a fully photovoltaic ventilated facade without sacrificing the architectural language thanks to innovative coloured glass photovoltaic modules.