SUSTAINABLE AND CO2-NEUTRAL HEATING AND COOLING
73 – MASSIV ANDERS
Location: Haunstetten, Kinding, Altmühltal, Germany
Date of construction: 2016 - 2018
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73 - that's how thick the outer wall of the ETS Didactic training centre is in centimetres. Such a solid construction has a different effect, is anything but usual for an administrative building in the 21st century and yet this construction method is anything but backward. Demonstrative architecture can certainly be sustainable if it reflects on fundamental, archaic principles of building. The so-called modern building is unthinkable and unplannable without highly equipped, over-born technology, recognisable among other things by complex air conditioning and ventilation. All that is superfluous here. Instead of air-conditioning and ventilation technology, the client invested in the building envelope: a solid, double-skin brick wall. The second shell in the brickwork cost 90,000€, a quarter of the cost of an air-conditioning and ventilation system for the building. In addition, there are no costs for maintenance and servicing of the system. The ETS Didactic training centre is not the first building to use a solid building envelope to take advantage of the energy and climate benefits and thus dispense with elaborate building services. But it is the first building to combine this solid construction with an ice energy storage system. In this combination, every room can be heated and cooled sustainably, and completely CO2 neutral.
