A
Art for the city
The station becomes an open-air gallery. Murals, site-specific installations and patterns tell of energy, movement and renewal, rooting the project in the neighbourhood's identity.
HUBIS® — Powered by Archigia
Energy for the city
The energy transition cannot just add objects to the city. It has to build places.
Scroll to explore
The name
Hub+Urbis
01 Hub
The node, the connection, the infrastructure, the service. The technical necessity of the energy transition.
02 Urbs
The city, the urban fabric, the neighbourhoods, the relationships. The need to give quality back to public space.
Two worlds held together by a single idea of the city.
Public infrastructure of proximity
Not a technical place to pass through, but a space accessible to all: a small contemporary neighbourhood agora.
01
Welcome
A space open to those who live, work or cross the neighbourhood.
02
Orient
A recognisable landmark within the urban fabric.
03
Illuminate
Light for everyone's safety and orientation, day and night.
04
Shade
Usable greenery and micro-areas of comfort for resting.
05
Tell
Accessible public art that gives the place its identity.
Vision & urban role
01 — An urban hinge
An urban
hinge.
HUBIS settles into voids, edges and transit areas — central or peripheral — turning them into magnetic poles accessible to all. Charging becomes an occasion to pause, observe, meet: a break that becomes a shared urban experience.
The project
From technical object to cultural landmark.
02 — New forms of urban life
01
Energy transition
Electrical infrastructure increasingly spread across the urban space, today experienced as intrusive presences.
02
The intervention
Turning substations and medium-voltage stations from intrusive technical objects into urban cultural landmarks.
03
The impact
Cultural, social and urban: art, inclusivity and a new perception of the ecological transition.
Cultural contemporary art in everyday space
Social accessible, recognisable, inclusive infrastructure
Urban new visual quality of the landscape
Our proposalArt, light and green
Art, light and green
as a single system.
03 — Three design layers
L
Light for the city
Light is design material: it defines thresholds, guides paths and makes the hub a safe night-time landmark. Dynamic LED systems modulate intensity and colour, cutting consumption and light pollution.
In collaboration with iGuzzini
V
Green for the city
Green is ecological infrastructure — urban lifeblood. Rain gardens, trees and permeable surfaces improve microclimate, water and air, creating habitats and comfort for those who pause.
With Landscape Architect Lorenza Bartolazzi
The concept
04 — Nature as a web of relationships
Nature as a web
of relationships.
Between human and non-human. Between infrastructure and environment. Between individual and collectivity. A dynamic nature that runs through today's environmental urgency and roots itself in the history and geography of the city.
Relationship 01
Human and non-human
Relationship 02
Infrastructure and environment
Relationship 03
Individual and collectivity
Art for the city
05 — The artists
Art.
The project unfolds in cycles, each entrusted to a group of artists. Every installation becomes a story of the territory: a new form of urban life, rooted in the history and identity of Rome.
01
Pietro Ruffo
Activating artist
Architecture, drawing and carving on themes of freedom and universal history. Landscapes, maps and traces of writing in dense layers.
02
Goldschmied & Chiari
Duo · Installation
Multimedia exploration across feminism, ecology and activism. Printing on glass and mirrored surfaces, between sculpture and performance.
03
Lucamaleonte
Stencil art
An unmistakable style built on the stencil technique. Active internationally from London to Melbourne.
04
Marta Roberti
Drawing · Identity
Identity as continuous transformation. Dissolved boundaries between human, animal and plant in mythological, posthuman imagery.
05
Sten&Lex
Stencil pioneers
Among the pioneers of stencil art in Italy. The stencil poster turns the matrix into the work itself, challenging reproducibility.
06
Michela Picchi
Murals · Perception
An intense palette, pop elements and psychedelic hints. Urban space as a dynamic perceptual field.
Urban insertions
Project visions
Proposal · Pietro Ruffo
Gente di Roma
Neighbourhood hub
Open-air gallery
Reactivated edge
Breathing ground
Project visualisations. The insertions show the HUBIS system applied to urban contexts, both real and conceptual.
A network, not a point
Urban scale
Many hubs.
One map.
HUBIS is not conceived as an isolated installation. Several hubs connected within the same municipality build an urban, artistic and landscape route.
01
Each station hosts an artwork, an intervention, a fragment of story.
02
Together they draw a new map of the city: energy, public art, green, light and mobility.
03
Each hub becomes a stop; each neighbourhood recognises itself in a fragment of the project.
Studio & expertiseIndustrial experience.
Industrial experience.
Urban vision.
06 — The group
0
Years of experience
0
Stations rebranded
0
Production area
0
EV chargers installed
HUBIS is born within Archigia, a group with over thirty years of experience in building the urban image, rebranding distribution networks and delivering infrastructure for electric mobility. Here, industrial experience meets a cultural vision of public space.
Experience gained for
EniliveIP ItaliaEssoMercedes-BenzKIARenaultFordDaciaQ8Autostrade per l'ItaliaAtlanteEwivaElectra
The team —
Imma Lasalvia · Designer & biophilic planner
Paolo Bevilacqua · Engineer & project lead
Sofia Di Gravio · Art curator
Let's start a project
07 — Contact
Let's transform
the next edge.
Tell us the context: an area, a station, a neighbourhood. Together we'll design the hub that reactivates it.