Environmental protection and the idea of a new dialogue between nature and the city are central themes in the work of the versatile young Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata. This is his introduction to Energetic Energies, the installation that Panasonic will present with Akihisa Hirata’s work, installed beneath the Largo Richini Portico at the university, is a poetic and conceptual transposition of a new vision, in which people and spaces coalesce to produce something integral and sustainable: an enchanted city where the roofs of the buildings and houses are covered in miniature solar panels, which, like climbing ivy, merge seamlessly with nature.










