{"id":1532,"date":"2011-05-13T09:28:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T09:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2011-05-13T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T09:28:22","slug":"basement-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Basement Revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1533\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><strong> <\/strong><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1533\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?attachment_id=1533\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1533\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1533\" title=\"revolt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/revolt-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-1533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students prepare the model presented at the opening of the design studio. (Photo: Florian Heinzelmann)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Students designing a floating, energy-producing home for the Solar  Decathlon competition have opened their design studio in the Science  Centre&#8217;s bare basement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the United States, basements and garages have proven to be fertile  breeding grounds for creativity. Violins, fireworks, music and the  first Apple computers have emerged from such humble beginnings.  Fittingly, the Science Centre basement now houses the Solar Decathlon  team&#8217;s design studio. Still very much a bare space, the studio was  opened on 28 April by the dean of the Architecture faculty, Karin  Laglas, and project director, Professor Patrick Teuffel.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The  team&#8217;s mission is to design and build a two-person home (smaller than  100 square meters) that is energetically self-sufficient but  grid-connected, while using only solar energy and the best available  technologies to reduce energy demand.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Revolt&#8217; house proposed  by the Delft team is a typically Dutch design in that it floats.  \u201cEssentially, it&#8217;s a floating Passivhaus,\u201d says project manager and  architect, Florian<\/p>\n<p>Heinzelmann, using the original German word  for a house without heating. The current drawings show three  interconnected spaces for sleeping, dining and living situated around a  central pillar. Different sections of the house offer a range of  facades, varying from a totally closed to an open house front. By  rotating the house, the designers make clever use of the sun&#8217;s  radiation. The well-insulated house thus profits from the warmth of the  intermittent winter sun, while also avoiding excess heat in the summer  months. Solar panels and solar collectors on the roof provide the home  with heat and power.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Hilhorst, an architecture student, and  project manager, Heinzelmann, aim to finish the design this summer. Next  year team members will build the prototype, which will then be  transported to Madrid for the final exhibition in September 2012. During  the event, the 20 university entries will be rated according to ten  different aspects (hence the &#8216;deca&#8217; in the name), such as architecture,  energy efficiency, comfort conditions, industrialisation &amp; market  viability, and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Some 30 students are now participating  in the project (19 architecture students, 10 MSc students in  Sustainable Energy Technology, and three \u00a0Technology, Policy &amp;  Management students), alongside the students from Erasmus University who  will advise in financing the project and attracting sponsors. More  students are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(null);\">www.revolthouse.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"javascript:void(null);\">youtu.be\/j6RPcTXiKiI<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(null);\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students designing a floating, energy-producing home for the Solar Decathlon competition have opened their design studio in the Science Centre&#8217;s bare basement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[46,102,398,426],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-delta","tag-architecture","tag-competition","tag-solar-decathlon","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}