The EV Station of The Future
The Living Charge transforms the EV station from a mere stop into a living, regenerative system. A Paradigm Shift in Service Stations.
Here, mobility, culture, and biodiversity converge to create an immersive experience where every action — charging, pausing, exploring — contributes to a vibrant ecological and social loop.
We have designed versions ranging from compact neighborhood hubs to subterranean stations integrated into roundabouts, showing how this regenerative concept can adapt to any urban scale.
A Civic Shift: From Charging Cars to Charging Communities
The Living Charge invites a fundamental shift in how we frame infrastructure. The question is no longer, “What can we offer drivers while they charge their cars?” Instead, we ask, “What are the everyday rituals, the shared moments, the essential functions that bring people together, and how might these co-exist within a charging hub?” This is not a place for cars. It’s a place for people. And not only those who own or ride in vehicles, but every member of the community. The EV station of the future becomes a civic platform, where you meet a friend, host a workshop, eat a meal, smell the soil after rain. Where energy flows not only through cables but through conversation, collaboration, and care.
Urban Integration as Regeneration
In dense urban contexts where space is scarce and the pace is relentless, The Living Charge does not rely on the rare luxury of vacant plots. It regenerates the forgotten, the overlooked, the in-between. A roundabout becomes a sunken garden. An underpass becomes a pollinator path. These are not isolated stations, but threads woven back into the fabric of the city. They are public gifts; spaces of biodiversity and biodiversity of use. By stitching infrastructure into culture and ecology, we enrich the commons, bringing us closer to one another, and to the living world we share. Human-to-human and human-to-nature connections are not incidental, they are essential.
The Living Charge is a spatial and social intervention, not just integrated into the city, but interwoven with it.