Sustainability_Project

This work was made it by: Andrea Rozo Ariana Esteller

__THE GERMAN HOUSE.__

The German house is a prototype home that follows the principles of sustainable design as it has energy supply technologies by harnessing solar energy.

Thus becomes a traveling exhibition throughout Latin America fueled by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany (BMWi), Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs of Germany and export initiative for renewable energy and efficiency.

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Pursued through these exhibitions provide knowledge to Latin America in the use of renewable energy technologies that provide for buildings, its performance and capacity for energy saving in buildings. []

The German house is noted for its ability to save energy by collecting power technologies using different techniques, in this house are shown the different techniques that can be used to achieve it. Thus a model of advanced technologies for the development of buildings that contribute to energy sustainability which should guarantee any loss of energy outside the house and electricity demand is met by the techniques used. []

__Among the technologies used in this house are:__

__PhotoVoltaic:__ It is a technique now widely known and found in most self-sustainable buildings. The energy generated by this technique supplies the station house by a hoarding which in turn can reserve power for times when there is no sun, etc.

__Photovoltaic flakes:__ These slides are used as an enclosure of the house while allowing the collection of energy by wooden panels or lamellae arranged in the direction of the sun which also generate energy and create privacy for the occupants of the house. These lamellae contribute 25% of the collection of energy in the home.

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__Photovoltaic Roof:__ besides all this, the house has some modules on the roof, which are within a crystal that protects the environment and achieve high levels of energy generation.

__Photovoltaic facade:__ composed of eight modules of the same size, combined with a solar thermal system facade, which not only allows the collection of energy but that isolates the temperature to avoid the use of electric appliances such as heaters or air conditioners, thereby promoting reduced energy consumption. Have a thermal conductivity 10 times lower than conventional insulation systems but with a smaller material thickness. This is used in walls, floors, ceilings and doors. []

__Lighting:__ Use the technique of light-emitting diodes (LED) which are extremely efficient and allows the collected energy to meet their demand to different scenarios while allowing light from the faintest to the highest.

__Appliance:__ it has a small size kitchen thus can prove useful in small spaces within the appliances, stove and fridge correspond to low energy demand which can be covered. []

The German House is a model of sustainable housing, by certain technologies is the ability to supply its own energy needs while reducing your daily intake of implementations thermal allow.

It is very important to have this kind of examples in architecture, and that through the unification of architecture and engineering can achieve the implementation of technologies that can be used by ordinary people in their own homes so as to reach a global contribution which contemplate a global decline in the use of power and an overall reduction of environmental pollution and use of nonrenewable resources. []

Intentions are thus generated worldwide not only for making this type of construction but also to proliferate the information so that every day more accessible to most people and begin to familiarize themselves with these technologies []