Casas em movimento |
moving houses
The concept
"casas em movimento" searched on the sun's potential, the source of
light and heat, as well as the management and mutation of spaces in the house,
answers to the uneventful life of the XXI century. A dwelling that interacts
with the environment and solar luminosity variations, recreates at each moment
a new interior and exterior space, adapting itself to the daily routine,
changes its view during the day, draws the sun's course, and from him it feeds.
Developing various
typologies, the concept sought a diversity of forms and spaces, linking itself
interactively, optimizing all the potentialities that the place offers to the
practice of architecture, to the life its inhabitant, always adapting the needs
of the man to the space.
With the admission of
new members in the team the group spirit was renewed, the concept was purified,
introducing new methods and new ideas that has permitted proliferate each one's
knowledge, fomenting group discussion in search for the house's best solution.
The concept of the
building appeared from the will to invert the actual state of energetic
dependence of the national electrical network creating a dwelling capable to
produce energy for self sustainability. The house has a system able to charge
batteries of an electric car or to introduce energy surplus in the network,
making viable the building's profit and its investment.
We intend to suit the
last generation technology in pursuit of guaranteeing a bigger improvement in
renewable energy, making the best management of the resources using informatics
means, integrating all the equipment in a beautiful building that cohabits with
nature.
In this project we
explore not only the usage of photovoltaic panels, but also other equipments
with a luminosity adaptive glass, and movements which will recover energy.
Regarding the passive recovery system we value the usage of materials with
thermal and acoustic insulation due to its nature, like wood or cork, looking
at taking advantage of the national product offer. Variety of exterior spaces
like a reflecting pool, permeable pavements, or other surfaces are adapted to
the house during all day, always concerning about the footing , taking
advantage of the most adequate surface in the moment, varying the possibilities
between the dawn and sunset, and also, between the 4 seasons during the year.
The motion of the
house, besides the energetic improvement, ensures also new concepts of dwelling
- controls all the involving space, being the house made for his user and not
the other way round, consequently the habitation answers the needs of the
inhabitant.
The management of all
resources implemented here is therefore optimized thanks to the insertion of
domotics, being the informatics programming that replies to studies made during
the development of the project by its needs and demands dictate by the Team
Cem+nem-.
At this moment we are
investing in project's propagation in a national level by participating in
sustainability events, like "UrbaVerde 2011 – Feira das Cidades Sustentáveis",
promoted by ADENE (Agência para a Energia – Agency for the Energy), where were
showed the participants of Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 by the Solar Decathlon
Manager, architect Edwin Rodriguez, and the 10action Project. We are also
investing in publicizing all the team's activities on local newspapers, team
which represents not only the University of Porto but also the country in this
event, Solar Decathlon 2012.
Despite all, we
searched near businessmen with national renown the backup for the construction
of the project, at financial level and the idea's promotion, looking to attract
the investors' interest, future partners and clients to commercialize the
building.
The project
"casas em movimento" takes place on the vanguard of Architecture and
Engineering, looking to sustainability as a reason to dwell and to the
construction of a new future, pursuing the concept of "house as a living
element", adapting and offering the best quality of the inhabitant's life.
Source: CEM