SKYshades of Southern California, in partnership with CCSE and the NewSchool of Architecture, hosted the inaugural sustainable tensile architecture design competition. The design competition allowed architecture students to develop a commercial carport structure model highlighting tension membrane and thin-film, organic photovoltaic ( PV) technologies.
The parking lot of the San Diego County Administration Center at W. Ash Street and Pacific Coast Highway was used as the model design by the winning team. The design is a repetition of overlaying triangular PVC canopies that hold the ETFE sleeves, housing film strips. The tensile structure is affordably held together by steel beams connected by steel cables. The ultimate goal of the winning student designers was to create enough solar energy to remove it from the grid and pay for its own initial installation, maintenance and support of all lights and landscape.
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