DutchNews.nl,
Monday 25 August 2014
Students from Delft University have turned an ordinary 1960s terraced house into an energy-neutral home by giving it a ‘new skin’ involving solar panels, glass walls and smart technology.
Solar panels allow the house to become energy self-sufficient. Photo: TU Delft |
Students from Delft University have turned an ordinary 1960s terraced house into an energy-neutral home by giving it a ‘new skin’ involving solar panels, glass walls and smart technology.
The project
shows how 1.4 million similar terraced homes in the Netherlands could be made
energy self-sufficient and won top prize for sustainability at the 2014 Solar
Decathlon event in France earlier this summer.
The home, a
replica of the house lived in by one of the students as a child, has been
rebuilt in Delft with all the high-tech modifications. The project is called
Prêt-à-Loger – ready to be lived in – because the residents are able to remain
living there while renovations are carried out.
Delft
researchers will use the house as a test site for improving the indoor
environment in homes and for the further development of consumer products,
systems and fittings within buildings and solar cells.
The house
is the first building in The Green Village, a Delft initiative to develop a
living laboratory for sustainable innovations on the university campus.
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