Designing,
Redesigning, Creating Scopes - Architecture with the Passive House
„Enough of Passive House-Architecture“
was the title of Helmut Krapmeiers lecture at the 8th Conference
on Passive Houses. Why then is a working group dealing with the
topic of architecture again?
Theses:
There is no specific architecture for Passive Houses
This becomes evident if we take a look at different Passive House
projects, built over the past years. Surely, it is too early to
argue that all possible architectural styles can be found. But there
is a wide range of them. If one or the other is still missing (
a deconstructive Passive House? On paper for sure, but in reality?),
it has got nothing to do with Passive Houses but with a lack of
opportunities.
The Passive House Standard creates scopes for architecture
without determining the design
Solid buildings come with a certain, identifiable appearance –
and so timber constructions do. Trying to conceal the typical character
of a building is possible of course, without necessarily leading
to bad architecture. A Passive House can be made using solid building
or timber construction. Nothing needs to be concealed for the sake
of the Passive House. In contrast to classical solar architecture,
Passive Houses have no strict guidelines concerning alignment and
the quantum of window surfaces. Is anyone regretting this? There
is no need to. Even a classical Solar House can be a Passive House
– and a good one, too.
There is more to architecture than outer appearance
...because each building fulfils a function as well, and that is
to function. Surely, that is not all. Residents ought to feel at
home. As Robert Hastings put it at the 8th Conference:
“Passive Houses need to be optimized in minimizing ecological
damage and maximising the `joie de vivre`.“ Still not
enough? No need to argue. There is only one claim we must not abandon:
Functionality and `joie de vivre` need to be coherent .
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Amstetten - Poppe&Prehal
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Dresden - Rentzsch
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Steyr - Proyer
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Feldkirch - Unterrainer
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Ulm, Energon - Oehler
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Waldshut - Harter & Kanzler
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Do architects use the existing scopes and opportunities? Is it possible
to be creative on a large scale when designing Passive Houses?
Working
group No. 1: Design, Redesign, Create Scopes - Architecture with the
Passive House
This working group will focus on already existing Passive Houses.
After the requisite know-how has been picked up by now, the technical
side can take a back seat. Thereby not suggesting that Passive Houses
have no technical requirements. It is merely a knowledge taken for
granted in this working group.
You
want to submit a paper? Find more Information
here.
Time
schedule of the 10th International Conference on Passive Houses
in Hannover
2005 Dezember 1st:
Deadline for abstracts
2006 February 1st: Notification on acceptance
of abstracts
2006 March 1st: Registration
period for reduced fee ends
2006 March 15th: Deadline for
the written contributions of the preceedings
2006 May 19th
and 20th 10. Conference on Passive Houses HCC Hannover
with Exhibition
on Passive House Components and
manufacturers
session
May 21st
field trip to the most interesting Passive House projects and construction
sites incl. refurbishment in the region near Hannover.
(updated:2005-09-09 ©
Passivhouse Institute PHI; this page might be reprinted if unchanged)
The PHI is
not responsible for the content of linked web-pages.
Passive
House Institute, Dr. Wolfgang Feist. mail@passiv.de.
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