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  Project Title

  GREEN ENERGY PAVILION IN GERMANY

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  Winning Firm
  
  

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  Awarded
  
  WINNER, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Agricultural Buildings

• Company/Firm
  Christoph Hesse Architects
• Lead Designer
  Christoph Hesse
• Firm Name
  Green Energy Pavilion In Germany
• Firm City
  Korbach
• Firm Size
  Small Firm (less than 10 employees)
• Project Status
  Built

The green energy pavilion celebrates a milestone in the history of the German village of Referinghausen. During its 750th anniversary, in the summer of 2019, the community demonstrated — in an atmospheric way — how the village is from now on independent of the global energy market. Due to the self-built local heating grid network, which is connected to an organic waste-based biogas plant, energy costs have been reduced by 50% and CO2 emissions by 100%. The steel basin with hot water in the center symbolizes the energy, the straw is a metaphor for the biomass from which the energy is generated.