Energy-efficient social housing: residential building in madrid

摘要

The social housing project in San Fermin, an emerging district on the periphery of Madrid, won the 1999 competition for one of three buildings with a focus on "social housing with a high degree of energy efficiency." The competition was initiated by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda {EMV Community Housing Development Agency). The brief called for concepts pertainingto bioclimatic planning in multi-story buildings with integrated active and passive use of solar energy. Despite subsidies provided by the EU for any additional costs resulting from ecological and energy-efficient measures, cost-efficiency and proof of operating efficiency for the solar systems were to en ha nee the model character of the project.