

Structure studio EFFEKT has created a charging station for electrical automobiles in Sønderborg, Denmark, which is designed as a park with gardens and seating areas.
Referred to as Higher Vitality Cost, the park is a pilot challenge for renewable power firm Higher Vitality and is positioned alongside a photo voltaic farm on the corporate’s R&D campus.
In line with EFFEKT, the purpose is to exhibit find out how to “rework the traditional petrol station right into a park” the place guests can unwind.

Trying to create a nice house for customers to relaxation whereas their automobiles cost, the park’s charging factors have been positioned round wildflower gardens, wood benches and an arched, cross-laminated timber (CLT) cover.
“A essential thought was to supply the drivers an opportunity to recharge mentally whereas they wait for his or her vehicles to cost,” EFFEKT artistic director Sinus Lynge instructed Dezeen.
“Due to this fact, your entire station is designed as a drivable backyard with an inviting and playful roof construction harking back to a basic backyard pavilion, providing a totally completely different expertise than what we affiliate with conventional fuel stations,” he added.

Supported by massive timber arches, the CLT cover shelters the southern finish of the charging park and comprises a glazed showroom space the place details about renewable power is displayed for customers.
A staircase leads as much as a small platform on the cover’s inexperienced roof, the place guests are given a view over the encircling Higher Vitality campus.
To the north, a paved space options areas of planting with flowers and timber which are wrapped by wood benches. These assist to demarcate parking areas on both aspect of the charging factors.
“We wished the pavilion’s design to be natural and welcoming, very similar to Danish furnishings classics,” stated Lynge. “We have now used nature’s personal supplies – the development is in-built cross-laminated timber,” he added.

The timber construction was constructed with a modular grid system, permitting it to be simply prolonged, downsized or dismantled or repurposed sooner or later.
“The design idea is supposed to be scaled to many alternative places,” Lynge instructed Dezeen.
“The design and building system, using a modular grid, is meant for enlargement throughout Northern Europe, [and] work is already underway for station quantity two, with an anticipated opening on the finish of 2024,” he added.

Higher Vitality Cost is without doubt one of the first stations to implement a dynamic pricing scheme, which incentivises customers to cost their automobiles when there’s probably the most renewable power obtainable within the grid.
Primarily based in Copenhagen, EFFEKT is an structure studio based by architects Sinus Lynge and Tue Foged in 2007. Its earlier tasks embrace Norway’s first treetop walkway and a maritime academy with an uncovered concrete body.
The pictures is by Rasmus Hjortshøj.