PROJECT PROFILES EUROPE 2014 From 28/06 to 14/07

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ATLANTIC CHALLENGE / PHILÉAS 10 Nantes / RESSÒ TEAM / RESSÒ 12 Barcelone / EFDEN / EFDEN 14 Bucarest / CHIBA UNIVERSITY / RENAIHOUSE 16 Chiba / JAPAN PRÊT-À-LOGER / HOME WITH A SKIN 18 Delft / DTU TEAM / EMBRACE 20 Copenhagen / TEAM FENIX / CASA FENIX 22 Valparaiso & La Rochelle / & FRANCE INSIDE OUT / TECHSTYLE HAUS 24 Rhodes Island & Erfurt / USA & KMUTT TEAM / BAAN CHAAN ADAPTIVE HOUSE 26 Bangkok / TEAM LUCERNE - SUISSE / YOUR+ 28 Lucerne / / CASA 30 Mexico City / MEXICO ONTOP / ONTOP 32 Frankfurt / GERMANY TEAM / LIV-LIB’ 34 Paris / FRANCE PLATEAU TEAM / SYMBCITY 36 Alcala & La Mancha / SPAIN TEAM RÉCIPROCITÉ / MAISON RECIPROCITY 38 Boone & Angers / USA & FRANCE TEAM RHOME / RHOME FOR DENCITY 40 Rome / TEAM ROOFTOP / ROOFTOP 42 / GERMANY TEAM SHUNYA / H NAUGHT 44 Bombay / TEC TEAM / TROPIKA 46 Cartago / COSTA RICA TEAM UNICODE / ORCHID HOUSE 48 Hsinchu / INTRODUCTION TO SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014

SOLAR DECATHLON >

The Solar Decathlon is an international competition created by the U.S. Department of Energy in which universities from all over the world meet to design, build and operate a grid-connected, energetically self-sufficient house. The houses use solar energy as the only energy source and are equipped with all the technologies that permit maximum energy efficiency. During the final phase of the competition Teams assemble their houses, open to the general public, while undergoing the ten contests of the competition. These ten contests make this event a Decathlon.

SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE >

The Solar Decathlon Europe (SDE) was created through a signed agreement between the Ministry of Housing of the Government of Spain and the United States Government, in October 2007, in order to organize a sustainable solar house competition in Europe, in 2010 and 2012. The 2014 edition of this competition will be hosted by France, in Versailles. The SDE 2014 Organization’s goal is to contribute to the knowledge and dissemination of industrialized, solar and sustainable housing, and has the following fundamental objectives:

> To raise participating students’ awareness > To emphasize a correct order of intervention: of the benefits and opportunities gained the reduction of building energy consumption through the use of renewable energies for increased energy efficiency,integrating and sustainable construction, challenging solar active systems and other renewable them to think creatively and develop technologies. innovative solutions that contribute to energy Building systems must be selected savings. and dimensioned using environmental and cost-effective criteria. > To encourage professionals of the building > To encourage the use of solar technologies. industry. To select materials and systems that reduce > To promote architecturally attractive solar the environmental impact of a building over system integration, working on using its entire lifetime, optimizing its economic solar technologies to replace conventional viability and providing comfort and safety construction materials in the building of occupants. envelope such as the roof, skylights or facades. > To educate the general public about responsible energy use, , > To clearly demonstrate that high performance energy efficiency, and the technologies solar homes can be comfortable, attractive available to help reduce energy consumption. and affordable.

4 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 With this new edition in 2014 in France, development of the Rules refines the requirements to be met by Teams & their projects.

A key objective is to provide habitats that major issues related to houses of the answer to today’s triple challenges:energy, future. environment and society. The 2014 Solar Decathlon Europe The evaluation of the proposed projects, Organization in France has decided to via the 10 criteria of the Decathlon, covers focus on the six following issues:

1/ DENSITY

Density is needed to minimize environmental impacts. Collective housing project are encouraged rather than individual houses. 2/ MOBILITY

The Solar Europe aims to be a testing ground for innovative solutions merging urban design housing and transportation systems. 3/ SOBRIETY

While it is important to ensure a renewable energy supply, it is even more important to limit demand. 4/ INNOVATION

Innovation remain at the heart of the competition, covering fundamentals from architecture to house appliances. 5/ AFFORDABILITY

Team shoul keep in mind that affordability remains the key issue for applicable sustainable architectural and urban solutions. 6/ LOCAL CONTEXT

Each project must be a quality response to the cultural, climatic and social contexts of each team’s region.

PROJECT PROFILES 5 DIVERSITY OF PROJECT PROFILES >

In 2014, Versailles will welcome 20 teams originating from 17 countries and 3 continents. Each Team has to come up with a zero-energy housing solution that fits the context and specificities of its homeland. This desire to take into account the environment in which the prototype is meant to evolve provides this 2014 edition with various and distinct profiles tackling themes as broad as:

New housing Facing major New urban types typologies natural threats & innovation

INSIDE OUT USA/GERMANY RÉCIPROCITÉ USA/FRANCE Sharing & community LUCERNE TEAM SWITZERLAND Earthquakes Facing major BARCELONA TECH 2014 SPAIN CASA FENIX TEAM social issues CHILE/FRANCE Building on top & density ONTOP GERMANY Floods TEAM ROOFTOP GERMANY KMUTT TEAM THAILAND PLATEAU TEAM SPAIN Aging population TEAM UNICODE TAIWAN TEC TEAM COSTA RICA

Innovation Tsunamis ROME 4 DENCITY ITALY CHIBA UNIVERSITY Population DELFT VERSAILLES 2014 NETHERLANDS JAPAN expansion ATLANTIC CHALLENGE FRANCE TEAM SHUNYA INDIA DTU TEAM DENMARK TEAM BUCHAREST 2014 ROMANIA Drought PARIS FRANCE TEAM MEXICO UNAM MEXICO

6 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 PROJECT PROFILES 7 ÉTATS-UNIS/ SOLAR TEAMS FRANCE

> 20 official teams > 20 zero energy prototypes USA+GERMANY > 16 countries > 15 official languages > 3 continents > 41 universities

PROJECT NAMES COUNTRIES PHILÉAS FRANCE RESSÒ SPAIN EFDEN ROMANIA RENAIHOUSE JAPAN HOME WITH A SKIN NETHERLANDS EMBRACE DENMARK CASA FENIX CHILE+FRANCE TECHSTYLE HAUS USA+GERMANY BAAN CHAAN ADAPTIVE HOUSE THAILAND MEXICO YOUR+ SWITZERLAND CASA MEXICO ONTOP GERMANY LIV-LIB’ FRANCE SYMBCITY SPAIN MAISON RECIPROCITY USA+FRANCE RHOME FOR DENCITY ITALY ROOFTOP GERMANY COSTA RICA H NAUGHT INDIA TROPIKA COSTA RICA ORCHID HOUSE TAIWAN

CHILE/FRANCE

8 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 20 OFFICIAL TEAMS WILL COMPETE IN LA CITÉ DU SOLEIL® IN VERSAILLES IN JUNE AND JULY 2014

DENMARK ROMANIA INDIA JAPAN

NETHERLANDS

ITALY

FRANCE X2

GERMANY X2

SPAIN X2

SWITZERLAND TAIWAN

THAILAND

PROJECT PROFILES 9 TEAM Atlantic Challenge PROJECT Philéas

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Innovation

«Retrofitting historic The 35 modules of the prototype buildings and transforming (5 kWc) will be strategically spread a neighborhoodby on the four slopes exposed to the south. The slope in the south frontage is introducing urban entirely covered by modules; the higher agriculture» section of the three others is also The Philéas project is about equipped with modules, maximizing the the complete rehabilitation of the Cap provision of light while avoiding the risk 44, an industrial building built in 1895 of shadows on the cells. which, alter various functions, from an agricultural co-operative to an office The greenhouse will be ventilated building, is presently vacant. in the case of overheating in summer; With an ideal location on the border roof lights will be able to open, of the Loire, the structure can become at a maximum angle of 18° in order to a center of urban market gardening. limit the risks of shading and the loss of photovoltaic production. Philéas intends to create housing, offices and a restaurant which will use The solar system will be divided into two vegetable production from the building’s sections, the first one will supply rooftop. This last purpose will be a park of eight lead batteries (5,8 kWh) enabled through a double slope in direct current. photovoltaic glass roof with integrated The other will supply the building with monocrystalline double glass modules. an alternative current. The batteries will be directed so as to The prototype module presented clip the consumption peaks. in Versailles will be available in a reduced version of this glass roof. This one should provide a maximum of natural light in the central atrium of the building and in the farming section located on the roof.

http://www.solar-phileas.com

10 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE Nantes D’ARCHITECTURE DE NANTES/ FRANCE ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEUR DU BOIS / INSTITUT SUPÉRIEUR DE SANTÉ ET DES BIOPRODUITS D’ANGERS UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES / ÉCOLE DE DESIGN NANTES ATLANTIQUE / SCIENCES COM

Phileas Solar Decathlon 2014 @SolarPhileas

PROJECT PROFILES 11 TEAM Ressò PROJECT Ressò

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Innovation

«Retrofitting existing house in the rural city of Sant Muç, buildings and transforming situated at 45 km in the north a Barcelon a peripheral of Barcelona. The prototype consists of a city by introducing a new parallelepiped unit with a supporting socialfunction:gathering structure made of scaffolding. and sharing» The two south façades are covered by translucent polycarbonate in order The Catalan project is inspired by to generate passive solar energy. the consequences of the real estate The two north façades and the roofing bubble which struck Spain from 1997 to are insulated. The photovoltaic panels 2007. are mounted on a frame placed on the roof deck, facing south with Today, there are 800 000 empty housing a slope of 25°. units, most of them unfinished, 100 000 of which are in Catalonia. Given that the solar energy has to be Also, a large part of this uninhabited the principal source of energy real estate park shows poor energy for the prototype, the machinery within performance. the house are automatic in order Ressò, a name derived from to consume the electricity the moment “restoration and sustainability”, it is produced. Ressò does not plan proposes a prototype of low-cost to resort to batteries. construction with variable usage, which could be used after the Solar Decathlon as a community

http://www.resso.upc.edu

12 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNY Sant Muç ESCOLA TÈCNICA SUPERIOR SPAIN D’ARQUITECTURA DEL VALLÈS

RESSÒ Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 @RESSO sde14

PROJECT PROFILES 13 TEAM EFdeN PROJECT EFdeN

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Innovation

«Filling the gaps and The prototype is a bioclimatic duplex reconquering the brown of 110 m², equipped with a solar fields by introducing Nature greenhouse integrated on its south in the existing city fabric» frontage. The roof deck will be holding a photovoltaic system of 5 kWc on a frame. The EFdeN project hopes it could give The modules will be tilted to 5° in back its luster to Bucharest, tarnished the final project, but to an angle of 68° by economic stagnation compared to the azimuth during and the architectural austerity the competition. of the Communist Bloc. The connected system will also be In order to make the city more dense, equipped of a park of batteries the project goal is to of create in order to stock up on energy a residential area in an abandoned that can’t be used during the day, industrial plot in the Obor district. for the needs of the evening.

The project will weave the smaller The house will be equipped with developed communities with green a home automation to optimize energy spaces, as well as an area of urban saving and thermal comfort, as well as farming to be used to foster a sense indoor air quality. of community and social interaction. Likewise, the buildings will be equipped with wide greenhouses offering a vast view outdoors while allowing the vegetation to bloom.

http://www.teambucharest.com/

14 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Bucarest BUCHARESTUNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA BUCHAREST/ ROMANIA « ION MINC » UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

EFdeN @TeamBucharest

PROJECT PROFILES 15 TEAM Chiba University Japan PROJECT RenaiHouse

FACING MAJOR NATURAL THREATS Tsunami

Rebuilding Fukushima area and of insulated panels with wool after the 2011 tsunami insulation for the floors. disaster.» The habitat is prefabricated in a workshop and can be easily The name of the project stems from transported in a container. the idea of “rebirth”. The prototype is designed under the The goal is to create energy efficient concept of the “smart house”, equipped habitats in the context of rebuilding with sensors that enable full control of Rikuzentakata, in the Tohoku region, energy and air flow in the house. The which was devastated by photovoltaic system of 5 kWc will be the earthquake and the tsunami of 2011. integrated in the east and west façades and also in the roof deck. The habitats are to be energy efficient, Electricity is stored through the battery supplied by renewable energies. of an electric car (24 kWh), which is The project RenaiHouse consists shared by several inhabitants. of a real estate section mixing private The battery of the vehicle will and public areas – offices, schools, be able to charge up and discharge in health centers, and communal spaces – order to deliver necessary currents for in order to favor the rebirth other uses. of communities shattered by thedisaster. The prototype presented is one of the constituent modules of the set. It is made of wood and built up of supporting wood frames

http://www.solardecathlon.jp

16 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 Chiba CHIBA UNIVERSITY JAPAN

Chiba University Solar Decathlon Europe @

PROJECT PROFILES 17 TEAM Prêt-à-Loger PROJECT Home with a skin

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Innovation

«Retrofitting typical Dutch in Versailles will be a small scale model row houses by adding replica of one of the houses to restore. a new skin on top of existing It will be built in wood panels buildings» and equipped with a double skin. More than 60% of habitats A home automation will control in the Netherlands are composed ventilation, sun protections, lighting of row houses with garden, usually and the heating system. poorly insulated. The photovoltaic system of 5 kWc will be composed of monocrystalline semi- Instead of demolishing to rebuild transparent double glasses integrated with a corresponding environmental to the solar greenhouse. and financial burden, the project The Twenty modules will be located Skin offers proposes the application on the roof of the greenhouse and five of a second skin to this type of house, of them on front façades. specifically a solar greenhouse on one Each module will be equipped with of its façades. a maximum power point tracker (model P300 of Solaredge), replacing The project of rehabilitation concerns the traditional junction box which a street of row houses built in 1963 optimizes the yield of each panel. in the village of Honselersdijk, 11 km to the South of . This package enables the maintenance of the outgoing voltage at an optimum The project seeks to maximize energy level for the inverter. and food production with fruit-trees, berry bushes and vegetable plots. The detached house presented

http://www.pretaloger.nl

18 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 DELFT UNIVERSITY Delft OF TECHNOLOGY NETHERLANDS

Prêt à Loger @Pretaloger

PROJECT PROFILES 19 TEAM DTU Team PROJECT Embrace

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Innovation

«Building sustainable housing The prototype in Versailles will consist in Copenhaguen Nordhavnen of a wooden frame for private spaces, new developments» with an efficient thermal envelope, with prefabricated panels containing two crossed layers of insulation (fibreglass). The Embrace project plans to densify The slope of the «climate shield» will the habitat in areas to be rehabilitated be covered with two types of modules by constructing an additional floor - blackout monocrystalline modules on top of existing buildings. for heated sections, semi-transparent Its particularity is to articulate double modules for open spaces. the transition from private to public spaces, via a buffer zone protected by In marketing the Embrace concept, the a «climate shield.» arrangement of cells could be organized in irregular units in keeping with This will be a glassed sloping roof the well-known Danish design covering thermally insulated private approach. modules (for common areas),open greenhouses and circulation The project does not intend to use a passageways. storage system and is simply connected The project plans to conduct testing to the network in order of this concept in the suburb of to inject surplus electricity. Nordhavnen, north of Copenhagen, which includes a port area.

http://www.solardecathlon.dk

20 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 Copenhagen THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK DENMARK

DTU Solar Decathlon @TeamDTU

PROJECT PROFILES 21 TEAM Team FENIX PROJECT Casa FENIX

FACING MAJOR NATURAL THREATS Earthquakes

«A post-earthquake of posts and panels, and the envelope, sustainable housing unit consisting of carried manually light composing a sustainable elements, which can be quickly community for relief» assembled by non-specialists. The photovoltaic installation is limited Motivated by the reality of Chile’s to 3.9 kWc of polycrystalline modules, devastating earthquakes, Casa Fenix with respect for economic constraints. offers modular and flexible habitats which can be built by victims The 15 modules are placed on the roof in emergency situations. using an aluminum frame with a 17° slope orientated to the south. The name of the project, extreme, Significant energy is used for is based on the notion of emergencies the production of sanitary hot water, due to extreme natural disasters. in combination with a solar thermal sensor. The modules are designed with a wood Simulated electric consumption comes frame and prefabricated to be easily from the production of this hot water assembled by teams of volunteers and of the dishwasher. dispatched on disaster sites. The prototype presented In this way, nearly half of electric in Versailles will be produced production can be self-supplied, at the University of La Rochelle. without another storage device, This is a module of “survival”: while the excess is injected into the structure, an alternation the network.

http://www.casafenix.cl

22 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA Valparaiso/La Rochelle FEDERICO SANTMARIA CHILE/FRANCE UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE

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PROJECT PROFILES 23 TEAM Inside Out PROJECT Techstyle Haus

NEW URBAN TYPES & INNOVATION

«Promoting highly The inside skin is a material performing textile of water-resistant Sheerfill fibreglass, for students residence» often used to cover stadiums. The insulating material will be The Techstyle project seeks to revisit maintained by a nylon wire network, the architectural concept of building while a new layer of synthetic fabric will with solid materials. act as an interior finish. The photovoltaic system will be The goal with Techstyle is to conceive integrated to the top deck roofing a habitat with the energetic standards thanks to the encapsulation of groups of of Passive House (Passivhaus), 21 monocrystalline groups in a layer with organic forms equipped with of vinyl. a textile sleeve. Opposing the default The cells will be deployed in two places vision that the rural habitat must comply on the roofing, a surface area with traditional building approaches, of 17.7 m² in the north part and 5.3 m² Techstyle imagines a new rural habitat in the south part. with a minimal ecological footprint. The cells that mold the round of the roofing will have different angles The project involves the construction of incidence in relation to the sun. of a set of textile buildings which can accommodate nearly forty students In order to limit any energy loss, the on a campus for art and design German-American team plans to resort in the French domain of Boisbuchet to power optimizers, managing each set de Lessac (Poitou Charentes). from 63 to 84 cells. Techstyle is a pile habitat equipped with a metallic structure. Between each metallic shackle, several textile layers will be taut.

http://www.techstylehaus.com

24 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Providence/Erfurt USA/GERMANY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES ERFURT

Techstyle Haus @TechstyleHaus

PROJECT PROFILES 25 TEAM KMUTT Team PROJECT Adaptive House

FACING MAJOR NATURAL THREATS Floods

«Fighting constant floods The materials are chosen for their as a strong and united water-resistance, bamboo planks community» for patios and weather-boarding, sandwich foamed polyurethane between panels of fibre cement The Thai team offers an architecture for the insulation, vinyl coating that adapts itself to natural disasters. for the internal flooring and laminate for interior finishings. The project concerns a suburb in A facility of 4,6 kWc is fixed on the roof the south-west of Bangkok, the district of the prototype, hooked up to a park of Bang Khun Thian, located in an area of four batteries, for a storage capacity prone to flooding. of 6kWc. The Adaptive House is a construction on two floors with a steel structure (hot The 22 monocrystalline modules will rolled steel), water-resistant material cover 70% of the surface area that cannot be deformed. of the roof, the 30% remaining are available for thermal sensors. The house, inspired by traditional Thai architecture, is built on piles in order There also, the photovoltaic systems to support rises of 60cm. Beyond provide the house with an electric 60cm, in the case of a flooded ground autonomy for three days. floor,inhabitants can take refuge upstairs and preserve self-sufficiency for three days.

http://www.kmutt.ac.th/kmutt_sde2014/

26 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 KING MONGKUT’S UNIVERSITY Bangkok OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI THAILAND

SDE KMUTT @ PROJECT PROFILES 27 TEAM Team Lucerne - Suisse PROJECT Your+

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Sharing & community

«Enhancing social living and which can have various uses. interactivity: from the All of them are linked by circulation pavillion to the whole city» spaces “spaces +” conducive to exchange and social exchange. The Swiss project seeks to maximize habitable spaces through sharing The prototype presented in Versailles will in the model of residence cooperatives. expose three rooms, conceived like three distinct parallelepiped spaces linked The goal is to reduce the consumption by a “space +” of space moving from today’s 50m² The photovoltaic installation has fourteen per person to 35m² per person. monocrystalline modules of 335 Wc, with a total power of 4,62 kWc, located The project considers the building on three areas of the prototype. of a block of flats in the Industriestraße The modules are built on a rotary axis of Lucerne, an urban center with good following the sun on its run east-west, public traffic connections. in order to maximize the production The inside of the building is organized of the panels. The yield of the modules into four types of spaces. The ‘my room’ (21%) allows the installation to occupy is designed for the strictest privacy; just 23 m². bedrooms are equipped with bathrooms. The installation is linked to a park The semi-common “our room” holds of batteries with a storage capacity the kitchen and the living-room and can of 4,62 kWh to which are added three be occupied by two to five people. electric bikes representing an additional The “your room” is meant for community storage of 1,18 kWh.

http://www.solardecathlon.ch

28 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED Lucerne SCIENCES AND ARTS SWITZERLAND SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 Lucerne-Suisse @ PROJECT PROFILES 29 TEAM Team Mexico UNAM PROJECT CASA

FACING MAJOR NATURAL THREATS Drought

«Water and drought issues It also includes a water tank housed in and housing for the poorest a minitower and even furniture designed in the gigantic city of according Mexico» to different hubs (kitchen, bathroom, cot, etc… ). The Mexican team offers more than The Casa concept introduces three a type of “toolbox” habitat for acting models for the prototype of Versailles. on the densification of the Mexico metropolis. Each of them will be equipped with monocrystalline modules mounted The city has indeed many voids on the frame and connected to the grid, or unfinished auto-construction, without a battery, to minimize costs most of which are based on reinforced and an ecological footprint. concrete. Casa is a construction system based on light and prefabricated elements, to denser the «hollow tooth» in an economic manner.

The toolkit provides a system of modular support structures, panel walls and roofs covered with textile isolated cladding for walls and a waterproof membrane for roofing.

http://dsolar.mx/site/en/

30 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO : Mexico City SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCHOOL MEXICO OF ARCHITECTURE /RESEARCH CENTER OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PLASTIC ART / SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

CASA UNAM @CASA_UNAM

PROJECT PROFILES 31 TEAM OnTop PROJECT OnTop

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Building on top & density

«Symbiosis and vertical The new units are described as true density» symbionts of the old building, providing thermal protection and surface energy Despite the demographic decline production. of the German population, which could increase from 83 million today The new roof will have two slopes, to 65 million in 2060, cities continue while reducing the north slope to grow. at a minimum in order to increase exposure to the sun on the south slope To preserve the quality of life in urban surface. This will permit a 40 kWp contexts, cities must strike a balance installation on the five segments between habitat density and open of the project. spaces, especially green spaces. The Ontop project aims to build One of them will be exposed additional housing on top of existing to Versailles, and power installed buildings, starting with a demonstration on this prototype will be limited project located in the center to 4.7 kWp monocrystalline modules. of Frankfurt Mousonstraße. A battery with a capacity of 5 kWh will increase consumed electricity and will The additional floor will consist of five release the mid-day point of production segments interspersed with terraces. to relieve the network, as per These buildings will be light-weight, the German context of a high with timber frames and tiles imitating penetration of solar energy (35 GWp the traditional fibre cement slate roofs installed). of Frankfurt.

http://ontop2014.de/

32 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Frankfurt FRANKFURT AM MAIN GERMANY

OnTop - Solar Decathlon 2014 Team Frankfurt @

PROJECT PROFILES 33 TEAM Team Paris PROJECT LiveLib

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES

« The infrastructure of the These will be connected on the north cityat the service of citizens» side of the hub, to leave the south open and well-lit. The Paris team intends to employ The south side also will be used a “plug and play» concept into for the production of photovoltaic the context of a building. Live-Lib’ electricity through two innovative buildings would thus consist of three technologies. distinct elements. Parisians will aim to install PV modules composed of layered superimposed The heart of the building, the «hub”, luminescent solar concentrators (LCS) includes all technical services, energy and thin CIGS films. These LCS cells, production, distribution and developed by the Italian universities of of water, ventilation, etc… Trento and Ferrara, are plastic plates containing a luminescent dye that The hubs are connected to “capsules”, retransmits light when hitby sunlight. removable living spaces or offices, dependent on the «port», a connection Thus, it is sufficient to have photovoltaic interface. The capsules are designed cells on the outer edge of the plastic to be disconnected, transported plate to generate power, reducing by truck and connected to another hub, the amount of semiconductor material facilitating mobility for inhabitants. required. In addition, the light is re-emitted in all directions, an initiative The prototype of Versailles will present of CIGS cells produced by the French a section of one hub and two capsules, start-up Nexcis, which can be placed a 34 m2 apartment and a workstation under the plate to increase production. area of 25 m2.

http://www.solardecathlonparis.com

34 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 ENSA PARIS MALAQUAIS / ESIEE PARIS / Paris ESTP PARIS FRANCE CHIMIE PARISTECH ENSG / UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST

Team Paris @SD_TeamParis

PROJECT PROFILES 35 TEAM Plateau Team PROJECT SymbCcity

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Building on top & density

«Density at the service of an apartment designed for two of the community» people, perched on a 1,30 meter-high host’ building. The Spanish team calls for the «colonization» of rooftops, This prototype consists of two parts, a creating a harmonious additional floor studio and a multipurpose space. to old timber frame buildings, resulting The studio is insulated to passive house in a new symbiotic living situation. standards (Passivhaus) and equipped with phase change materials to provide The profits from the sale of new good thermal regulation. the homes could contribute to the renovation of the existing building. The use of multifunctional spaces Spanish universities are planning varies seasonally: in summer, there are to carry out the operation of urban shaded terraces with cross ventilation, renewal in the Manoteras neighborhood, welcoming vertical vegetation; in winter, in , a residential area built the shell can be completely closed by in the 1950s. the rotating blades of the roof and thus creating a solar greenhouse. The flooring of the new storey will reach a meter beyond the two facades of the The single slope roof provides building, creating of a double-glass 4.8 kWp thin-film CIS modules for skin, improving the heat resistance the studio underneath, which enable of the old walls. The prototype quality performance in high ambient presented for the Competition consists temperatures.

http://www.plateauteam.com

36 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA Alcala/La Mancha LA MANCHA UNIVERSIDAD SPAIN DE ALCALA DE HENARES UNIVERSITY

Plateau Team SDE’14 @PlateauTeam

PROJECT PROFILES 37 TEAM Team Réciprocité PROJECT Maison Reciprocity

NEW URBAN TYPES & INNOVATION

«Achieving regional The prototype of Versailles will consist universality» of three prefabricated elements, a feature conducive to industrial Maison Reciprocity revisits production. the established townhouse, notably The roof terrace of the prototype will those of the traditional habitat be equipped with 20 monocrystalline on both sides of the Atlantic. modules with a total capacity of 4.8 kWp. For this, the Franco-American Team They will be fixed to the chassis designed a modular housing unit, of galvanized steel at an 18° angle. adapted to the urban context, for use The facility will be hooked up to a fleet as a single-dwelling home with of 16 lead-acid batteries with a total the potential to assemble into capacity of 6 kWh. The entire system is a collective housing building. designed to maximize consumption. The modules of this house consist of three interrelated components: It will be driven by a power management «Urban Shell» (urban envelope) unit, moving consumption during PV providing passive standard thermal production. It will also charge insulation, «Chord», the heart the batteries in an intelligent way to clip of the habitat, housing facilities the injection point on the network (bathroom, kitchen) and «Living Brise- during the peak production of mid- day. Soleil» consisting of facade and roof The batteries powering low- components ensuring climate protection consumption devices will cover a third and energy production. of Reciprocity house’s electricity needs.

http://www.reciprocity2014.com

38 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 UNIVERSITÉ D’ANGERS Boone/Angers APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY USA/FRANCE

Reciprocity 2014 @Reciprocity2014

PROJECT PROFILES 39 TEAM Team Rhome PROJECT RhOME for denCity

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Innovation

«Re-densify and re-qualify is the simultaneous integration the boundaries of an ancient of photovoltaic on roof top &façade. city» The photovoltaic modules are integrated into the removable occlusions The roman project is intended of the main bay windows. for the Tor Fiscale district, in a 30 meter high Middle-Age structure in The Team from Rome will present the south-east section of Rome, near a 60m2 apartment in Versailles, the remains of ancient aqueducts. a component of the project’s final section. . Rhome (A Home for Rome) is part The 5 kWc photovoltaic modules will of an urban regeneration program cover a continuous current line for the district, with a goal to replace of the roof slope to the base illegally inhabited buildings with of the façade on the south side performant and ecological habitats. of the prototype. These building sites will become small The chosen technology is that collective housing communities, of flexible monocrystalline modules all designed with attention to detail. Solbian (with SunPower cells) because The ground floor is a foundation of their light weight and resistance of reinforced concrete supporting to harsh conditions (salt water, shock, a wooden-framed four-storey structure, etc…). a total of 12 apartments. These are arranged around a central The pan of photovoltaic façade can shift column for technical spaces: kitchens, from a 15 ° angle on the extension bathrooms, ventilation systems etc… of the roof modules, in order The specificity of the Rhome project to increase system productivity.

http://www.rhomefordencity.it/

40 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 UNIVERSITÁ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TRE Rome ITALY

Rhome for Dencity @TeamRhOME

PROJECT PROFILES 41 TEAM Team Rooftop PROJECT Rooftop

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Building on top & density

«Exploring rooftops» The upper part of these panels holds the CIGS. The Berliners from Rooftop Project also Thus, when the sun appears, the facade want to invest in roof space. panels are folded along the path Berlin has a large number of abandoned of the sun, toward a horizontal position, roofs and unusxed attics suitable increasing the surfaced exposed for extensions. to the sun. The photovoltaic modules are managed The project consists of a studio designed by power optimizers to ensure system for singles aged 25 to 45 who want performance, despite the variations to live in performant & communicative of angles. Each panel can be folded housing systems, while residing within independently according to the wishes their initial communities. of the occupants.

The new unit has a wood structure with In winter, on overcast days, the panels fully glassed north and south facades, cover the windows, enhancing thermal allowing for natural light. protection. The housing unit must service the host building, producing as much energy as This installation, connected to the grid, possible. For this, the extension will also feed a fleet of lithium-ion of the roof is flat and entirely covered batteries, located on ground floors and with thin CIGS film modules. The north allowing, among other things, and south facades are composed of the charging of electric bicycles. eight automatic, horizontally-placed control panels.

http://teamrooftop.de/

42 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS Berlin TUB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN GERMANY

Rooftop @TRooftop

PROJECT PROFILES 43 TEAM Team Shunya PROJECT Project H Naught

FACING MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUES Population Expansion

«New urban lifestyles in The rooftop, transformed into a terrace gigantic indian cities, space, will hold a 4,9 kWc photovoltaic 31 000 inhab/km2 up system on a one-axe tracker which will to 50 000 inhab/km2» follow the sun’s course and maximum horizon. While increasing the production Almost 60% of India’s population of energy through monocristalline lives in ever-growing & expanding panels the tracker creates shadow for cities. In Bombay, dwellings range occupants on the terrace space. from shantytowns to high-standing apartments. The Indian manufacturer of the tracker, SmartTrak, has produced this system The team from India offers a new type for photovoltaic solar parks. of sustainable building, an affordable Applying this system into a residential living solution for the middle-class. configuration is an innovative first. The approach consists of four levels built on a metal framework system boasting a high-performance skin.

The prototype reveals a three-room apartment, adapted for a family of four on the top floor.

http://www.teamshunya.in/

44 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE Mumbai INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INDIA

Team Shunya @TeamShunyaSDE14

PROJECT PROFILES 45 TEAM TEC Team PROJECT Tropika

FACING MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUES Aging population

«Affordable housing solution The bioclimatic buildings rely on for the elderly in La Merced a glued-laminated wood structure, district, City of San José, complimented with teak wood, capital of Costa Rica» (a local resource covering floorings, exterior walls, terraces and even The La Merced neighborhood ceilings). The residences are structured in the Costarican capital of San Jose into 55m2 and 74m2 apartments. includes numerous undefined areas, The prototype at Versailles will reveal some of which have been transformed a 55 m² apartment. Its north façade is into parking lots; there are also many predominantly open to facilitate natural abandoned buildings which appear ventilation (in view of the predominant to be poised for demolition. Costarican north-east winds). A unique solar chimney built into The Trópika project seeks to build a the north façade actively enables warm- series of four to five-story residential air evacuation from the dwelling. and commercial buildings designed to In lieu of a vertical section, the upper address tropical climates and urban section is bent in accordance with densification. the sloped roof, thus avoiding shading As in Europe, with ever-growing on the polycrystalline solar panels populations of seniors, Trópika seeks integrated into the roof. to develop and adapt residential dwellings to the needs of the elderly. The external section of the solar chimney is covered with a glass panel, The Team’s proposal consists used to heat the upper section of a two-building complex linked of the house, thus accelerating natural by an overhead bridge system with ventilation and circulation of warm air encased vestibules, passageways toward the exterior of the house. and technical casings.

http://www.sde14tec.org

46 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 Cartago COSTA RICA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY COSTA RICA

Tec Team @sde14tec

PROJECT PROFILES 47 ÉQUIPE Unicode de Taiwan PROJET Orchid House

NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Building on top & density

«A sustainable living space In order to rejuvenate neighborhoods, harmonized with nature Orchid House will maintain and dedicate on top of Tapei’s towers» 15 % surface space to vegetation. The extensions will reveal one The Taiwanese capital, Taipei, of the three common dominant forms has experienced very rapid found in Taipei: L, C or I forms. development, resulting in uncomfortable neighborhoods, The prototype presented in Versailles weakened by heat and humidity. will be based on the L shape, forming The cornerstone of the Orchid House a large terrace space for vegetation. project is to remedy these conditions Twenty polycrystalline solar panels by creating a series of rooftop are integrated into the southern sloped extensions for existing buildings. section of the roof. As an experimental platform, These are linked to the grid to power the project is using a cluster the building while charging a 5,7 kWh of buildings from the Ximending capacity battery-bloc. neighborhood. These batteries are devised for maximum autonomy from The objective for the house extensions the grid, specifically through evening is to use the broad sloped rooftop consumption and usage. surfaces to collect rainwater and flow this into reservoirs. To this day, very few residential Covered with photovoltaic panels, these buildings in Taiwan use photovoltaic rooftops will contribute to further urban modules. energy independence and, in the long run, improve air quality in combination with 2-wheel electric vehicles, the transportation mode of tomorrow’s Taipei.

http://www://sde.tw/

48 SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014 Hsinchu NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY Orchid House TAIWAN

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