Green Pea
GREEN PEA, FROM DUTY TO BEAUTY
Green Pea is the realization of a project envisioned by Oscar Farinetti (founder of Eataly), which blends harmonically architecture and environment, beauty and sustainability, quality and efficiency inside a revolutionary building located in Turin, Italy.
A unique retail park designed according to the most modern principles of bio-architecture as part of a larger urban enhancement project (ACC Naturale Architettura Cristiana Catino and Negozio Blu Architetti).
The goal of building using exclusively sustainable materials and technological systems brought to a fruitful collaboration with GEONOVIS. Our Company was appointed to design and implement the shallow-geothermal system for the heating and cooling of the entire building, and to warm the pool placed open air on the top floor.
Thanks to this solution, the best comfort is granted in each area of the building through the clean and renewable energy available underground: without any harmful emissions, perfectly in line with the “green and sustainable” philosophy of the project.
The system designed for Green Pea consists of 3 wells that capture thermal energy present in the aquifer at a depth of 35 m.
The withdrawn groundwater is not affected by any chemical alteration: therefore, after its use through the 3 heat pumps in the power station, it is partly collected for subsequent irrigation, and partly returned to the aquifer.
The installed thermal capacity is 1.040 kWt, the cooling capacity is 940 kWt.
The system avoids the emission of 390.000 kg of CO2 each year, corresponding to the planting of 13.000 trees.
On the ground floor, the Green Pea Discovery Museum offers a multimedia presentation of all green energies that make this building a zero-emission facility. This is also home to the model and video made by Geonovis to present in a simple and intuitive way how the geothermal system works.
Images of the thermal power plant are the property of Geonovis. Credits: Dario Foglia
Image of the building, exterior view, is courtesy of the GreenPea Communications Office.
