Slumbered Sleep

Research Center ICTA-ICP / H Arquitectes + DATAAE
Building Structure
The main component, which directly contributes to the
building’s passive comfort, is a durable, inexpensive, and
inert concrete framework. The amount of concrete has
been distributed optimally to support heat exchange. In
order to produce a lighter building, it uses post-stressed
slabs of concrete with pipes in the core area in which the
airflow circulates. Geothermal energy is used to activate
the thermal mass at both sides of the slab. (Joan Pascuets,
2022)
Climate and Management
Three different climates
with varying levels of use
can be accommodated in
the structure: Climate A:
Interstitial areas that only
receive cooling or heating
from passive and bioclimatic
processes; Climate
B: offices with radiating
and semi-passive systems
in addition to natural ventilation;
Climate C: Sealed
and conventionally configured
laboratories and
classrooms. Every climate
type has corresponding
systems. An computerized
system that manages
and analyses a significant
amount of information in order
to maximize energy and
comfort usage regulates
the behavior of the building.
The system has been set up
to maximize the building’s
passive behavior and to utilize
non-renewable energy
sources as little as possible.
The structure responds and
adjusts constantly, opening
and shutting, activating and
deactivating, and successfully
using all the natural opportunities
provided by the
surroundings. As a result,
the comfort experience is
considerably more real and
less manufactured. (archdaily,
2015)
Summer
Winter
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