In the coming days, participants will understand how to use these tools to calculate the energy potential for building sites and entire territories.

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Tutors:

Enric Ruiz Geli

Mireia Luzárraga

Assistants:

Maria Kupstova

Dori Sadan

International Jury Board:

Jaume Coll, ETSAB

Gonzalo Delacámara, IMDEA Agua

José María Torres Nadal, Arquitecturas Torres Nadal

Javier Peña, Xpiral – IAAC Faculty

Luigi Ceccaroni, 1000001 Labs

Rodrigo Rubio, Margen Lab – IAAC Faculty

Silvia Brandi, IAAC Academic Coordinator

Students:

Natalie Alima

Ismail Gokhan Catikkas

Maria Agnieszka

Czajczynska

Rodion Eremeev

Maureen Estrella

Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin

Agnieszka Janusz

Akanksha Kargwal

Sofia Kcomt Villacorta

Novak Kijac

Ashwini Mani

Ian Mann

Alejandro Martínez del Campo

Tobias Grumstrup Lund Øhrstrøm

Rodolfo Parolin Hardy

Ricardo Perez Borbolla

Kateryna Rogynska

Hriday Siddharth Saini

Sinem Samanci

Irina Shaklova

Rasha Sukkarieh

Raphael Teixeira Libonati

Remita Thomas

Gustavo Triana Martinez

Alessio Salvatore Verdolino

Mohamad Yassin

Self Sufficient Buildings

Saturday, 21st of June 2014 // 10h00 – 18h00, IaaC Auditorium

Tutors:

Enric Ruiz Geli

Mireia Luzárraga

Assistants:

Maria Kupstova

Dori Sadan

International Jury Board:

Jaume Coll, ETSAB

Gonzalo Delacámara, IMDEA Agua

José María Torres Nadal, Arquitecturas Torres Nadal

Javier Peña, Xpiral – IAAC Faculty

Luigi Ceccaroni, 1000001 Labs

Rodrigo Rubio, Margen Lab – IAAC Faculty

Silvia Brandi, IAAC Academic Coordinator

The concept behind the DUNEhouse project is to create a flexible tool* more than a design where the client has the possibility to define his own house. Mainly, the idea is based on a system composed by different volumes where each of them represents a program or a cluster of it (bedroom and bathroom, kitchen, swimming poll, etc.) and the client is able to distribute them on the plot and creating every kind of space and connection that he prefers. The catalogue on the left is showing, from the left, the growth of the house, from step 1 to step 5; and from the top to the bottom, 3 of the, almost infinitive, possibilities of distribution of the house. This system is working with different parameters in order to create the edges in which this tool can operate ( each of them operates following a non-linear logic but an iterative logic). In this project, the most important parameter is the wind, so the base geometry of the house (the sequence of air flow analysis below shows some of the wind test) is organised in order to maximise the wind flow and consequently the natural ventilation inside the building. To increase the effect of this mechanism all the house volumes (made of reinforced and insulated concrete shells) have been thought on the top of small artificial dunes working as thermal mass with the aim to regulate  the income air temperature (diagrammatic section on the left). Moreover, the shell insulation is given by a covering envelope composed by different soil bubbles working as a green wall where the plants are able to grow and consequently regulating the microclimate surrounding the house.

The second parameter evaluated is the view exposition of the house toward the sea. In order to understand and maximise this aspect has been done an diagram where is possible to define where collocate the windows.  The house is growing as an artificial organism that is taking advantage from the natural resources; also the solution to “melt” the shell of the house with the ground (starting from the level 0.00 with an artificial dune and transforming in spheres of soil, seeds and natural fabric) allows to use as much as possible the thermal inertia to save energy for the cooling heating system.

*= Tool means  a parametric definition made with a software where the user doesn’t have to draw a new house every time that I likes to change something but simply he can change the parameters that he prefers and the design is going to self-adapting to the new scenario. The renders that I present in this panel are just to explain one possibility of the catalogue (dash line rectangle)

Gianluca Santosuosso

Aerial view of the FabLab house in Madrid

The fablab house in Madrid: A preview of the future of how design can be manipulated and used according to the technology and know how that has provided us with limitless possibilities. The interior of the house is composed of a social space, a bedroom, kitchen, a small FabLab, a bathroom and an elevated small room for invited guests to sleep. The house’s control system is designed to provide detailed real-time monitoring of its behaviour and its interaction with the environmet, creating historical profiles which can be shared socially. More of the FabLab house can be found at  www.fablabhouse.com.

FabLab house interior

After endless nights of hard work the fablab House has been constructed in Madrid. With its theme ‘Form follows energy’, the house is now using the resources of its environment – the sun, water and wind to create a microclimate that will improve the basic conditions of habitability. The fablab house is also now serving as a workshop space where digital fabrication,innovation and creativity is encouraged. This sunday more than 5o children have realized drawings of their ideal solar house. They were supported by the fablab house team to win a fablab house cap with their names digitally imprinted on it.The competition for the next week till the 27th of june, more on the fablab house news can be found atwww.fablabhouse.com.

FabLab House  in Madrid

Interiors of the FabLab House

Fablab House being presented by journalists

More than 5,000 visitors at the fablab house

Fab workshop with children

Realizing a drawing of a Solar House