ZIN/WTC, Brussels (Picture by ONOTO/Tristan Rasson)
SOLAR. NATURE. ARCHITECTURE.
Sunsoak Design is an engineering & architecture practice focused on architectural integration of renewable energy in the city, in infrastructures and natural environments.
We think that upscaling the current use of renewable technologies is a priority to meet 2050 goals. Nevertheless, large scale PV or BIPV objects have a massive impact on both built & natural environments. That impact has to be part of a plan. Part of a design. It has to be drawn with architectural sense, and engineered in order to preserve its optimal efficiency.
Our goal is to preserve nature. Renewable energy has in priority to be decentralized, located where the user is. It means building large scale solar machines in urban contexts, linked to building codes and permitting. Infrastructures between cities have to be equipped prior to the natural environment. When a natural environment is the only option, the solar park has to be designed in a total respect of local landscape, fauna and flora. It should in no case compete with preserved nature, species development or agriculture.
We design solar structures, solar building skins, join contest teams, provide technology watch, R&D, cost surveys to developers, architects, engineering offices and municipalities as clients.
We are solar architects & designers.