Inspiration

PQL Studio is run by architect, planning specialist and concept developer Peter Qvist Lorentsen.

The world’s oil resources are swiftly running out. The last cheap oil in the world is limited and the oil prices are rising.  The CO2-outlet is causing problems to the environment etc. The hydrogen technology could be the missing link that would accelerate and secure the use of renewable energies in the long-term. During the last couple of years, development and commercialization of solar, wind and hydrogen technologies has made a great leap forward. Today, hydrogen technologies can be applied in a wide range of products: 

Batteries in cell-phones, computers, and electric vehicles, not to mention large hydrogen based energy storage capacities for energy grids including powering our houses. This will result in new demands to design, function and shape of buildings. A city run on hydrogen might sound far-fetched, but it  is already in the pipeline. Architect Peter Qvist Lorentsen, and the  PQL Studio from Denmark, have been doing extensive research on hydrogen as an energy resource for architecture, and are in the midst of realizing a hydrogen-powered city, H2PIA, in their country. Which  could change the future of architecture and infrastructure of the world. The connection between solar cells, wind energy, hydrogen technology and buildings is obvious to many with an increasing understanding for the architectural potentials in renewable energy. In the future our buildings can act like many, huge decentralized batteries able to produce and store their own power all connected to the utility grid selling and buying energy when necessary. 

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