User:Luisrborunda/Barcelona Tech (UPC) Solar Decathlon Project

Barcelona Tech (UPC) - Solar Decathlon Project 

“UPC Solar Decathlon” includes entries from the Escola Tècnica d’Arquitectura del Vallès ETSAV by its acronym, to the prestigious international competition  Solar Decathlon Europe, with the commitment of promoting a low environmental impact and low cost sustainable architecture alternative coupled with high energy efficiency.

The Solar Decathlon is an event sponsored by the United States Department of Energy among others. The main goal behind the competition is to promote the use of renewable energies, 20 universities from all over the world build their energy efficient house in the so-called “solar village”, measuring the house´s performance through 10 different tests.

Low3 - SDE 2010
Low Impact, Low Energy, Low Cost

Awards:

1st Place Architecture

13rd Place SDE Competition

The passive house LOW3 by the UPC has as its main goal to reach complete energétic independence with a sustainable use of resources. Through a life-cycle material analysis, component and construction process optimization is obtained, resulting in a low emobied energy house. The house is flexible, updatable and can change depending on constantly varying circumstances, such us use, size, technology, all of these changes promote reusing and recylcing. Low cost makes this prototype a very competitive sustainable alternative dwelling in the near future.

(e)co - SDE 2012
Equilibrium through Cooperation

(e) + co together involves the existing social context. (e) "green-at" re-interprets the symbol of our time (@). It represents the equilibrium among systems as well as spiral self-generative. -Co means putting together, to include new research, development and diffusion areas, all based on cooperation. As a result, (e)co is an alternative way of joining technology, resources and users in order to achieve a sustainable progress focused on the development of architecture. Its objective is to obtain a self-sufficient dwelling based on the principles of zero ecological footprint and zero economical footprint. This intention reflects the changing context we are living in. The main approach towards this objective is to offer more efficiency, more services and more comfort using less materials, less energy and less money.

Categories
Sustainable Architecture

Low-energy building

Building engineering