Preliminary assessment of the building design of a new test house in Nuuk, Greenland

Abstract

DTU has established a single-family three-level test house in Nuuk, Greenland. The main idea of the house was to have a relatively small heated area but a split building envelope, where a ventilated space behind the rain screen in some areas could be used as a sunroom. This paper describes the process of transforming the architectural ideas to a test building. Main issues have been how to design the rain screen and how to ventilate the space behind the rain screen.

Hygrothermal Conditions in the Facades of Residential Buildings in Nuuk and Sisimiut

“…The ABC project primarily relies on three Greenlandic data sources. 1) a test house that experiments with sheltered unheated areas between rain screen and insulation, creating semi-indoor zones [9], 2) a test pavilion containing the most typical Greenlandic façade constructions for new constructions [5,10] and 3) hygrothermal sensors in the façades of multiple residential buildings. This study investigates the collected data from most of the monitored residential houses and compares them with results from the test pavilion [5].…”