The Society Service Station is an electric vehicle charging station where people interact at local amenity and retail outlets such as the post office, laundry facilities or shopping for groceries It will adopt an additive architectural philosophy to incrementally expand its offer from kerbside (super urban) to Society Service Station and hence become as much as or a greater part of our lives than the petrol filling station is today. Like the post box, it will be adaptable to rural, suburban, urban and super urban environments whilst retaining its identity. It will be modest and timeless, designed from the start to allow the rapid evolution of charging technology and delivery. ![]() Holistically designed, drawing together pragmatic engineering and operational requirements, this new icon will become an object of simplicity. In this space charging points can become a globally recognised new icon for our coming age. As technology is shifting, these gracefully ageing icons are slowly disappearing or evolving into new services. Britain has historically led the way in pragmatic, engineering driven, iconic utility interfaces the street furniture that has, for over a century, defined our urban identity. RSHP’s approach to the brief is to ask the government and general public to imagine a charging point as a piece of street furniture that has the familiarity and timeless elegance of a red post box. RSHP has worked with Peter Brett Associates (PBA), now part of Stantec, to develop a Green Paper that sets out recommendations for Government to capitalise on the provision of a new social infrastructure model across the UK. The delivery of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the UK has the potential to generate significant revenue return to the Exchequer, create significant public value and establish a global template, placing British iconography at the heart of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Government has put the UK at the forefront of this shift not least by identifying this as a key area of our industrial strategy. ![]() ![]() Transport is at the centre of this change as technological advancements drive vehicle electrification and autonomy, potentially revolutionising the way we travel and live our lives. Charging into the 4th Industrial Revolution
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