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Qu’avons nous appris ?<br />
What have we learned ?<br />
pliances available in their respective<br />
markets. It appears that, as<br />
far as laundry culture is concerned,<br />
variations are quite important according<br />
to each european country.<br />
The american Solar Decathlon<br />
Rules based on a north american<br />
common use of machines generates<br />
an homogeneous production<br />
of appliances on a wide territory.<br />
Large, powerful, simple and quick<br />
machines are commonly available<br />
on this market. The different european<br />
cultures have developped<br />
a large variety of relationships<br />
to cleanliness and housekeeping.<br />
These differences result in very<br />
different appliances’ performances<br />
according to each national market.<br />
For example, French people are<br />
not so used to dryers and favour<br />
washing machines providing a large<br />
variety of programs as well as the<br />
small size of appliances over the<br />
time a laundry can take. Therefore,<br />
washing machine and dryers<br />
are designed with a completely different<br />
agenda than the american<br />
ones. Because of historical specific<br />
reasons, it happens that the<br />
spanish culture developped in the<br />
second half of the twentieth century<br />
is very much influenced by the<br />
american culture when it comes<br />
to machines and home appliances.<br />
This probably explains why the SDE<br />
Rules are following so closely the<br />
SD US ones. We think that this issue<br />
should be adressed in the next SDE<br />
2012 Rules set and that the reality<br />
of the european market’s diversity<br />
should be taken into account.<br />
Beside these problems, the freezer<br />
the diswasher, the TV, the computer<br />
and the DVD player worked perfectly<br />
and scored full points.<br />
We cannot end this conclusion without<br />
talking about the dinner parties<br />
which were just perfect even<br />
if a last minute switch of dessert<br />
caused by difficulties in finding in<br />
Madrid the proper ingredients for a<br />
raspberry «mille-feuille» induced a<br />
small penalty... People had a good<br />
* They are Anaïs Rollet’s parents - a master student at Ensag - and are just homonyms with <strong>Armadillo</strong> <strong>Box</strong>® faculty advisor.<br />
Ce sont les parents d’Anaïs Rollet (étudiante en Master à l’ENSAG), parfaits homonymes du responsable pédagogique du projet.<br />
INES - Grands Ateliers - Mai - 2011 ..................................<strong>Armadillo</strong> <strong>Box</strong>® page 489<br />
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