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Military Solar Structures
Solar Charging Station for Corporate Event on Randalls Island
These solar sails serve multiple functions! Installed for a corporate event, these highboys provided space to eat and hide from the summer sun. The event was a success and the highboys provided charging stations for the attendees to charge their cell phones.
Solar Glamping Tents at Rockaway Beach
Pvilion is excited to offer our Solar Event Tents for temporary and semi-permanent applications. Leveraging our 30+ years of experience with the U.S. Army, Pvilion has developed a solar-powered fabric skin that is easily adaptable for small and large fabric structures. Lightweight and easy to install, this remote power solution will provide shade and reliable charging for your cell phones, tablets computers and batteries.
Whether you are hosting a large outdoor event or enjoying some off-grid camping, our Solar Event Tents have you covered.
Solar Café Trellis at Google
Pvilion takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary by enhancing the traditional wood trellis with tensioned PV stainless steel sheet technology.
Google requested an energy savings, eye catching, sun protection shade for its employees. The functional and stunning destination provides a relaxing shady spot. Pvilion’s design of a solar cell integrated trellis is producing direct current electricity while simultaneously being used to support the power grid for the Google campus.
Tommy Hilfiger Solar Tote
Pvilion recently launched its second successful collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger, developing a new solar-powered tote and clutch. Pvilion’s removable solar clutch allows easy access to mobile charging, incorporating a battery and a USB port to power your phone. Utilizing the iconic Tommy color palette of red and blue, this one of a kind tote is made out of durable saffiano textured leather integrated with solar cells. Simply walk outside and see your phone charge as soon as the sun hits it. Measuring at 13″ x 10″ x 17″, the tote showcases a front panel design with star-shaped cutout, allowing sunlight to charge the branded battery hidden within.
Solar Shell for LED Light Posts
Solar panels in any shape, any color, and any orientation are our specialty at Pvilion. The Solar Shell for LED Light Posts does just that, becoming an accessory for any light post on the market.
Just tell Pvilion the light posts you’d like to use (or buy the whole thing from us!!) and we’ll work with you for a beautiful product.
Solar Canopy for the Brooklyn Roasting Company Coffee Cart
Pvilion paired with Brooklyn Roasting to construct environmentally-conscious mobile coffee stations.
The coffee carts were made from both recycled and sustainable materials; the wooden frames were built from reclaimed basketball courts, and coffee is kept either iced or hot by Pvilion’s solar technology.
A four-point fabric tensile canopy equipped with a solar array stretches over the top of the cart, generating electricity and providing shade. The first cart was placed in the Brooklyn bridge park, near Deborah Kass’ yellow sculpture “YO/OY”.
Pvilion Designs Battery Conservancy Stands
We designed and built 100 custom tents for the Battery Conservancy’s Midsummer Fair on June 25th and 26th, celebrating the completion of the Battery Oval!
The weekend-long event engaged the public with the region’s biodiversity, showcasing local horticulturalists and agriculturalists, and emphasizing the connection between plant and food production.
Our tents provided shade and space for vendors, those who had been carefully selected by The Battery Conservancy’s advisory board for fulfilling alternative and sustainable production goals.
Each tent was 8’ wide and 10’ deep and covered with top-of- the-line Sunbrella fabric. The versatility of the tents lend themselves to future event use!
Solar Shade Canopy at Yankee Pier on Governor’s Island
Pvilion built and installed the solar canopies at Yankee Pier to provide shade for passengers waiting for the ferry to Brooklyn, and to power the lighting that turns the canopies into a Governors Island icon at night – visible from Brooklyn, and for a mile up and down the East River. These economical, multi-year solar frame tents were constructed for a budget comparable to that of renting commercial tents for one season.
The colorful fabric solar panels are attached to the canopy fabric and frame in a playful “zig-zag” pattern. Pedestal platforms high up on the metal frame support the battery boxes that store the solar electricity that powers the LED RGB lighting bars suspended from the top of the frame.
