Active Energy Building Spreads Its Wings
Over the last decades, urban agglomerations have been very successful in absorbing population growth and drawing in rural population. They are home to more than 50 percent of the world’s population. Today’s cities are responsible for 75 percent of the world’s energy consumption and are emitting 80 percent of man-made carbon dioxide. Acknowledging these facts and facing the process of rapid urbanization, demands for new strategies reducing CO2 emissions and energy consumption. As one possible answer to this urgent questions falkeis.architects developed and realized the first ‘active energy building’. The project is the winning entry of an internationally invited competition for an apartment building in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
Based on intense research it successfully implements a building integrated energy production system, developed for this new type of building. PV-tracking systems and PCM-climate wings, part of a moving building envelope, harvest solar and interstellar radiation producing solar power and controlling the building-climate.
The building also provides a high capacity to adapt to changing spatial requirements, achieved by a most effective load bearing structure. The project aims at delivering a contribution to improve urban living conditions and energy demands and is a first built example for decentralized urban energy production.
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