ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 450
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Fri Oct 30 09:19:23 PDT 2009
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SOLAR DECATHLON IN DEPTH
by Katherine Gustafson
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In mid-October 2009, twenty teams of engineering and
architecture students erected houses on the National
Mall in Washington, D.C., for the biennial Solar
Decathlon green building contest. After spending two
years designing and building cutting-edge solar houses,
the teams - mostly from North America -
sought the designation of "most attractive, effective,
and energy-efficient" for their structures.
Each house in the competition showcases some of the best
principles of sustainable design by incorporating its
architectural and engineering aspects into a unified
equation of efficiency. The idea of the contest, as
Decathlon Director Richard King put it, is "looking at a
house as a total system that's integrated with renewable
energy... from the beginning, so that it all works
together and the house becomes part living organism,
part living system."
Each team was judged on ten elements - hence the
"decathlon" - including architecture, engineering
and market viability. They also tried to measure up on
communications, lighting design, hot water systems,
comfort (indoor temperature and humidity maintenance),
appliances, and home entertainment. This year, the "net
metering" contest evaluated entries on how much extra
energy they could feed back into the electrical grid.
Team Germany
Team Germany, consisting of students from the Technische
Universitat Darmstadt, was the overall winner for
2009, as it also was in 2007. The team's goal was to
test the limits, in both extensiveness of photovoltaic
surface and use of new technologies. The strategy
worked: they scored in the top five in nine of the ten
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Connecticut Science Center by Pelli
by Michael J. Crosbie
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The Connecticut Science Center is a new architectural
showpiece in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, designed
by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. The design expresses
themes that have been part of Cesar Pelli's oeuvre for
many years: the importance of public space and its role
in the city.
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People and Places
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Ellerbe Becket and AECOM in Minneapolis, Minnesota -
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USA - Tony Fretton Architects in Warsaw, Poland...
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The Watts Sherman House (1874) in Newport, Rhode Island,
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