SITE VISIT OBJECTIVES
To show an application of PV-systems for the restructuring and maintenance of historic industrial buildings. Explora - Museo dei Bambini di Roma, a non-profit organization, is the first museum for children in Italy. It was primarily designed for schools and families.

COMPANY PROFILE
Explora is a child-sized play town, where everything can be observed, touched and experimented with. Visitors come into contact with facts, phenomena and everyday events in relation to the environment, communication, the 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 respect for the environment and all the materials used for the construction were either recycled or recyclable and non-toxic. Recently a new PV-system has been applied in the car parking area (18kWp).