Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of a High  Efficiency House: RhOME for denCity, Winner of  Solar Decathlon Europe 2014

Battista, Gabriele; Carnielo, Emiliano; Evangelisti, Luca; Frascarolo, Marco; Vollaro, Roberto De Lieto

doi:10.3390/su7079681

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“…The contest allows universities and businesses to develop and test initiatives related to human dwelling spaces, from energy optimisation through the use of different high-efficiency systems and passive design [ 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 ], to the analysis of construction elements employed in every solution [ 53 , 54 , 55 ], as well as using different home automation tools or studying the comfort conditions of the dwelling [ 56 ], and, as a result, their effect on the health of the user ( Figure 1 ).…”

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Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Millán-Jiménez

Herrera-Limones

López-Escamilla

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 pandemic forced the population worldwide into lockdown. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of this measure on the health and comfort of university students and the role that the characteristics of the home may have played. It is essential to differentiate between the terms comfort and health both from the medical and architectural perspectives, as there are differences between the two concepts that are, nonetheless, shared by both disciplines. An online survey was fulfilled by 188 medicine and architecture undergraduate students at the University of Seville, Spain. In terms of health, 89% suffered neuropsychiatric disorders (56% anxiety and 49% depression), 38% gained weight and 59% reported alcohol consumption. In relation to comfort, the majority rated their home positively, comfortable in terms of room temperature and noise at night, and they had a good relationship with cohabitants. However, those who did not have a balcony or terrace would have liked to have open spaces They would have also liked to increase the size of their bedroom, where they spent most of their time and where they studied. A built-up environment gave them a sense of being imprisoned, while those who enjoyed open spaces found a sense of peace. The absence of open spaces in the house, the environment and the impossibility of making the most frequently used spaces more flexible may have had negative impacts on the health and comfort of university students during confinement.

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Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Millán-Jiménez

Herrera-Limones

López-Escamilla

et al. 2021

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“…Referring to the Koppen-Geiger classification method [33] it is possible to classify and characterize the three climates. Paris presents a marine west-coast climate, with mild summers and winters (Cfp climate).…”

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Comfort analysis applied to the international standard “Active House”: The case of RhOME, the winning prototype of Solar Decathlon 2014

Brambilla

Salvalai

Tonelli

et al. 2017

Journal of Building Engineering

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The relationship between indoor comfort and climatic context is essential to assure a superior liveable environment for occupants. The international approach called Active House (AH) proposes a ranking system to evaluate the provided indoor comfort, which is the same through the whole Europe, without acknowledging the variety of social-cultural contexts of each country. This paper aims to understand whether the AH methodology can be proposed both for continental and Mediterranean climates, evaluating the indoor comfort performances of a single-family home in four different climatic conditions, representative of different climate severities. The RhOME for denCity building, the winning prototype of the international competition Solar Decathlon 2014, has been used as experimental case study. From the results a variation of the AH comfort thresholds is proposed to fulfil the cultural and social environment of warm regions, considering the acclimatization process which arise the boundary of comfort acceptability. The proposed new comfort threshold still provide high thermal comfort expectation with an energy saving estimation of about 1.7% for each half degree Celsius reduction.

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“…The version of the competition, Solar Decathlon Latin America and Caribbean 2015 (Cali, Colombia), to which the prototype presented in this article was submitted, unlike previous editions [8][9][10][11][12][13], was given a social approach, which allowed researching on other architectural typologies and sustainable-healthy construction solutions, where the transfer to society of the environmental strategies implemented in these prototypes gained special relevance. The objective was no longer to present a housing cell where excellent comfort conditions and minimum energy consumption were achieved on the basis of technology decontextualized socioeconomically from the society where the competition was held [14].…”

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Environmental Comfort as a Sustainable Strategy for Housing Integration: The AURA 1.0 Prototype for Social Housing

López-Escamilla¹

2020

Applied Sciences

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The AURA 1.0 prototype is a sustainable social housing proposal, designed by the University of Seville and built for the first Latin American edition of the prestigious Solar Decathlon competition. Different conditioning strategies were integrated into this prototype, optimized for a tropical climate, and focused on contributing positively to the health of the most humble people in society. In this moment, in which a large part of the world population is confined to their homes due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have the opportunity (and the obligation) to reconsider the relationship between architecture and medicine or in other words, between the daily human habitat and health. For this reason, this analysis of aspects derived from the interior conditioning of the homes is carried out. The main objective of the Aura proposal is to be able to extract data through a housing monitoring system, which allows us to transfer some design strategies to the society to which is a case study, in order to promote environmental comfort and, therefore, people’s health. The AURA 1.0 prototype develops flexible and adaptable living spaces, with a high environmental quality, in order to maintain the variables of temperature, relative humidity and natural lighting within a range of comfort required by the rules of the event. To achieve this end, the prototype develops an architectural proposal that combines passive and active conditioning strategies, using construction qualities and typical costs of social housing. These strategies allowed the project to achieve the first prize in the Comfort Conditions test. So, this paper presents an appropriate and tested solution that can satisfy comfortability and health of residents who live in social housing while maintaining low energy consumption.

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Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of a High Efficiency House: RhOME for denCity, Winner of Solar Decathlon Europe 2014

Cited by 24 publications

References 30 publications

Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Comfort analysis applied to the international standard “Active House”: The case of RhOME, the winning prototype of Solar Decathlon 2014

Environmental Comfort as a Sustainable Strategy for Housing Integration: The AURA 1.0 Prototype for Social Housing

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