TECHNICAL AREA Project: Bioclimatic House

In a century that has been marked by the exhaustion of energy resources as well as by environmental problems derived from an excess in consumption, the Sotavento Galicia Foundation presents this project, which pretends to offer everyone who is interested a real examplification of the bioclimatical possibilities to save energy and to improve our standard of living.

In order to reach this aim, the Sotavento Galicia Foundation will build a 200m2 building, which, taking into account climate and environment conditions, will use its design and its own architectural elements as its main means to obtain the best habitability conditions inside. The low energy demand of this house will be supported by renewable and/or efficient energy systems.

The building, equipped with an integral management system, will offer visitors all information about its working and even will allow the variation of exterior conditions (temperature, season, solar radiation, etc) in order to prove its response in different simulated ambiences.

The most important aim is to show the basis of bioclimatical buildings and the different phenomena that go on inside them to obtain comfort. On the other hand, we will also show that this comfort can be obtained in a quite simple way, by saving energy and thus respecting environment.

In order to reach it, we will make a guided tour around the following aspects of a bioclimatical building.

• The importance of the emplacement and the form of the building in order to control heat sources and heat sumps (sun, sky, air and ground).
• The importance of orientation for a good bioclimatical working.
• Optimization and management of solar light in the summer as well as in the winter
• Ways of transmitting the heat according to our interests and habitations inside the house to get the best comfort.
• Thermical qualities of the opaque materials that are used. Isolating materials, conductors, heat accumulation and thermical stability.
• Thermical comfort conditions. Temperature and relative humidity.
• Energetical uses of the house (kind of household appliances, types of lighting, water management, etc)
• Integrated energetical working inside the house, which consists in the management of bioclimatical conditions with the support of necessary renewable energy sources together with domotica. Possibilities and effects of these interventions.
• Expected and measured energetical results.
• Possibility of extrapolation of the results on other kinds of bioclimatical buildings (house, flat , etc)
• The use of natural and local materials as important elements of a sustainable architecture .
• This project will integrately apply the “código técnico de la edificación” (technical building code) so that it will reach the best values in Energetical Qualification.

The energetical demand that the house needs will be supported by renewable and/or efficient energetical systems:

• Solar photovoltaic
• Solar thermical
• Wind
• Biomass
• Geothermical heat pump

This project has been performed by an enterprise with a wide experience in bioclimatical architecture, called ALIA, architecture, energy and environment Ltd.. The leader of the project is the architect Emilio Miguel Mitre, a professional of recognized prestige in bioclimatical buildings.

At this moment the housing is constructed, expecting to finish the works in the summer.

Demonstrative Bioclimatic House	Language	Size	Download
Demonstrative Bioclimatic House (Complete)	Spanish	25.850 Kb
Title page and Index	Spanish	1.351 Kb
Introduction, financing and project difficulties	Spanish	2.521 Kb
Project description	Spanish	3.875 Kb
The house in detail	Spanish	5.764 Kb
Bioclimatic operation and termal installations	Spanish	10.963 Kb
Power generation installations and consumption	Spanish	6.775 Kb
Water management	Spanish	3.062 Kb
Monitoring and control	Spanish	1.361 Kb
Informative space	Spanish	3.545 Kb
Technical building code and energy certification	Spanish	1.069 Kb
Bibliography and counter front page	Español	2.141 Kb