Residential buildings
A short overview of the Torre Verde development, which was the first residential bio-climatic building in EXPO'98's intervention area. It has 41 bio-climatic apartments distributed across twelve storeys, and a total area of 7200m2. It includes five different base typologies ranging from two to four bedroom apartments.The Torre Verde is an attractive, low energy building, and performance monitoring over a 12 month period has shown that its CO2 emissions are around 24 tons less than a conventional building of the same size and use.
The single family detached house in Meschede/Germany is a low energy building made out of concrete. The yearly energy demand for heating is only 18 kW/(m²·a). It uses renewable resources and is equipped with a state-of-the-art heating and ventilation system.
Komfort Husene (The Comfort Houses) is a project comprising 10 one-family houses being built in the city of Vejle, www.komforthusene.dk. The goal of the project is to increase knowledge of houses with passive heating and setting the scene for the building of the future. An important aspect is that optimum indoor climate is aimed as well as low energy consumption.
Komfort Husene (The Comfort Houses) is a project comprising 10 one-family houses being built in the city of Vejle, www.komforthusene.dk. The goal of the project is to increase knowledge of houses with passive heating and setting the scene for the building of the future. An important aspect is that optimum indoor climate is aimed as well as low energy consumption.
An article describing the refurbishment of a 1970's concrete residential housing block which has been adapted to maximise thermal performance, and has become renewned as an example of property renovation with energy solutions based largely on solar heating. It also describes the highly successful collaboration between project team and the tenants who acted as a source of inspiration and ideas for both the architects and building engineers.
Sweden's biggest apartment development built using passive housing technology - with the priority on comfort and energy-efficiency. With a quarter of the heating requirement of a normal apartment building, 75 per cent less carbon dioxide emissions, the same rent and a healthier indoor environment, it is helping to drive development towards the housing of the future. The project showed that it is both economically profitable and makes the best environmental choice to build a highly energy-efficient passive house that is heated by the surplus heat from people and appliance etc. The higher investment cost and environmental impact that this entails is repaid within a few years
Four projects of passive houses in Sweden (3 new construction and one renovation) are studied in a Licentiate thesis comparing light (wooden) and heavy (concrete) structures including simulations on indoor temperatures, differences in energy demand and influence of the thermal inertia.
The project: Two buildings with a total of 51 apartments are being built in Stjørdalnorth of Trondheimin central Norway. The buildings are owned by a housing cooperative presently consisting of three buildings from 1970. The existing buildings have 110 apartments. The construction of the new buildings started in March 2004 and will be completed during the fall of 2005.
The PLEIADE (Passive Low Energy Innovative Architecture Design) dwelling is a two-storey row house in the city of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, which was designed, built and evaluated by the Walloon Region in the years 2000-2005. design : sprl Atelier d'Architecture Ph. JASPARD, Dinant, Belgium in collaboration with : P. WERY (stability) project participants : Université Catholique de Louvain - Architecture et Climat, Belgian Building Research Institute, Région Wallonne, ELECTRABEL (LABORELEC, ARGB), COMITA, BCDI.
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| Photograph: A. De Herde | Photographs: Ch. Bastin & J. Evrard |
Abstract
Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT made in early 2000's studies how low energy concrete block house should be designed and constructed. Energy consumption was studied and compared in low energy and traditional one family houses (report nr RTE 627/05). One of the first low energy houses designed and built according to the studies was made at the house exhibition of Laukaa, Finland in 2003.
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| Photograph: Mrs M. Koivisto |