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In the first post I explained how to make architecture in collaboration with nature. Your natural oasis where you can regenerate your mind and release stress.
In the following posts, I will explain how smart people known to me from different professions cooperate with her. Engineers, architects, scientists, innovators and even philosophers.
It is a very long collaboration that dates back to the 5th century BC. The principles of the passive solar house were struck by Socrates (469-397 BC) with a house model with a trapezoidal plan and a base oriented towards the south. The walls are massive stone with an opening only to the south. The roof is single-roofed. The south facade has a porch that is designed in such a way that steep summer rays do not enter the space, and low winter rays enter the depth of the house. Socrates’ model is still a perfect example of a sunny house. When you look a little closer, this house looks even modern. Therefore, it is not surprising that many modern passive solar houses are designed according to the same principle.
Ever since the time of Socrates, people have been collecting rainwater, exploiting underground water, solar energy, and in ancient Greece, wind energy was also being exploited. Heron’s windmill, which powered the organ, is one of the first examples of using wind energy to power a device. Interestingly, Heron had already designed a waterfall that functioned only by means of hydrostatic pressure.
The term solar house should be distinguished from low-energy, passive and plus-energy houses.
In 1982, the design work organization Naš Stan from Belgrade and the Boris Kidrič Institute from Vinča developed several concepts of sunny houses, and the concept itself is the basis of the development of today’s passive, low-energy and plus-energy houses. The houses use the principle of passive architecture and store solar energy. The houses are designed so that they receive most of the necessary heating energy from the Sun throughout the year, while an additional heat source is used to supplement the heating system, so these houses are also called self-heating.
Passive house is the name of the energy standard designed by physicist Wolfgang Feist. Passive house is a phenomenon of physics that tries to prevent transmission and ventilation losses. It is almost 100% airtight. Another name for a passive house is a one-liter house, because it consumes one liter of fuel oil as an energy equivalent per square meter of useful space, or 15 kWh/m2.
Low-energy or three-liter consumes 3 times more, about 45 kWh/m2.
I learned a lot about passive solar houses from a professor at the university and an expert in the field, professor Ljubomir Miščević
https://www.nacional.hr/nacionalni-projekt-solarne-stanogradnje-hrvatska-suncana-kuca/
and professor Alenka Delić who is also the designer of her own passive house designed according to Socrates’ model:
https://www.dom2.hr/predstavljamo-dom/kuce/pasivna-kuca-arhitektice-i-gradevinskog-inzenjera/
Both low-energy and passive houses use renewable energy sources to meet their own needs, and plus energy house and more.
As a student, I came up with a conceptual solution for a passive house for a design firm in Zagreb that dealt with standard, prefab low-energy and passive houses.
The house was conceived as a simple, compact structure with a living room, dining room and kitchen oriented to the south. These living rooms, together with the entrance and service areas form a cube with a large glass wall towards the terrace and garden and an extensive green roof. The bedroom is in a wooden body in the form of a three-sided prism. The single roof of the bedroom is also the place where the solar collectors are installed, through which the heat pump for heating and cooling and the preparation of hot water is fed. The house is designed to be ecological, which includes natural and recycled building materials. This house was designed for continental Croatia, so the living area would be ideally made of kobi (a building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water and, if possible, lime). An alternative is a formwork wood-cement mineralized block, such as Isospan .
The environment is conceived as a permaculture unit together with the house itself.
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