Site Visit Objective: To show an application of PV-systems for the restructuring and maintenance of historic industrial buildings.

Company Profile: the non-profit organization Explora - Museo dei Bambini di Roma, is the first museum for children in Italy. It was primarily designed for schools and families.
Explora is a child-sized play town, where everything can be observed, touched and experimented. Visitors come into contact with facts, phenomena and everyday events: environment, communication, economy and new technologies.
The roof of the Children's Museum of Rome was restructured by applying PV-systems (15kWp). This project aimed at improving the quality of natural lighting and at decreasing the heat load of the building through the integration of a specially designed PV system and the adoption of passive cooling devices. The overall approach to the project was based on the respect for the environment and all the materials used for the construction are either recycled or recyclable and non-toxic. Lately, a new PV-system has been applied in the car parking area (18kWp).