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Design a Passive Solar House of Zero Emissions in Athens


WORKSHOP Assignment: The ECOWEEK 2010 workshops were assigned with the task to design a passive solar house of zero emissions. The ECOWEEK 2010 workshops dealt with a smaller scale more tangible project, that would give both students and workshop leaders practical experience and tools in passive solar design, and the application of passive and active renewable energy technologies.

WORKSHOP Leaders: The ECOWEEK 2010 workshops were led by experts from Greece and abroad, including environmental engineer Brian Mark (Mott McDonald Fulcrum, UK), architect Daniel Wicke of the Rural Studio (USA), greek architecture and landscape architecture firms, among them Meletitiki-A. Tombazis, doxiadis+, Kostas Tsipiras Architect, AREA, PLIAS-D. Diamantopoulos, PAAN, Agnes Couvelas, Kotionis and Tsagrasoulis, N. Smyrlis, N. Rousseas, Zerefos Tessas, TEAM4, deltArCHI-Dragonas Christopoulou, Anamorphosis, Drifting City-P. Babasikas, Angelidakis, and two workshop groups hosted by the Hellenic Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA) with the participation of the following architects and engineers: Konstantinos Moraitis, Vassilis Papandreou, Menelaos Xenakis, Myrto Koliri, Apostolos Efthimiadis, Dimitrios Mantas, Grigoris Maltezos, Yiannis Gyllis, Konstantinos Papachristopoulos, Sofia Markopoulou, Loren Alexander, Andreas Andreadakis, Fouli Kosmoglou, Elias Barkouras, Katerina Momtsiou, Magda Naoum, Marika Papadopoulou, and Kalliopi Papadaki.

Workshop led by AREA Architects, and workshop team: Olivera Ilic, Eleni Iliopoulou, Giorgos Ritsakis, and Sanja Stevanovic: ‘The purpose of our proposal was to improve the existing external conditions, in order to reduce the required energy of the building and to increase the green areas around it. It is not only the design of a passive solar house but also an effort to try to change the microclimate of the entire block. We examined the orientation of the plot and the adjacent buildings and placed the house in the southwest side of the plot, to take advantage of the direct southern sunlight. We covered just a small piece of land and left a big planted backyard to connect with the future park next to it.’


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