“Our building has a deck can move and rotate with the sun by tilting, not by turns rotating to follow the direction of the sun”, explained project director Josep Maria Adell, a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Madrid (UPM), during his presentation in New York.
This university is one that coordinates the Spanish nomination made by a multidisciplinary team of young engineers and architects for the fourth edition of this biennial competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy, to be held in Washington next October.
“The B & W House” has been named in allusion to the white and black (black & white) as the simplest way to express the harmony and balance between the extremes of the environment”.
“This building also has a set of innovative technologies that allow for maximum solar energy and transmitted to the interior of the building or to heat, either to store it and then convert it into electricity,” explained the professor.
It has designed a square house, a floor of 45 square meters, which provides a large inverted pyramid that houses a solar panel capable of monitoring the orientation of the sun at all times to stay in a horizontal position by night.
The interior is a unique portable module includes all the necessary technology to be energy self-sufficiency, since the energy captured by solar panels on the roof joins the vertical collection panels on the walls which are oriented during the day depending on the path of the sun.
In addition, other panels embedded in outer walls; in this case fixed charge is going to heat water which will also serve as an energy source.
“All the potential energy coming into the building through the sun are captured, stored and delayed in their application to use as necessary to maintain the best possible energy,” said project director.
The houses that bid must be subjected to ten tests in which assesses factors such as livability, energy efficiency, functionality and engineering, entertainment, lighting design, and even how to communicate their differences.
Once past the competition, the project also envisages the possibility of extending the house by adding a floor between the first floor and automatic roof, whose movements are reminiscent of those of a sunflower.
UPM has already participated in two previous occasions, which won the ninth and fifth place, so “this time we have to overcome, we will try to win,” said Adell.
He added that this would be a good letter of introduction to Spain for the organization in 2010 of the first contest in Europe a version of this contest, as both parties have agreed.
The UPM is working on behalf of the Ministry of Housing (from Spain) in organizing Decathlon Europe to be held in Madrid in 2010 in which 21 universities will participate from 10 countries, “he told Efe the project of this initiative, Sergio Vega.
Indicated that among those selected to participate in this edition, which will take place next to the Jardines del Palacio Real de Madrid, there are universities in Spain, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, France, Finland, Israel and China.
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