Poyecto academico, intercambio University technology Sidney

Seasonal changes are imperative on the way people live their lives and their personal comfort. Temperatures of Sidney vary between 25-30 degrees on summer until 5 degrees on winter, which means there is a 20-degree temperature difference each year.  This means people are forced to used mechanical elements to control their thermal confront, such as heating on winter an air conditioning on summer, which at the same time means more environmental pollution due the use of this systems.

 

The project consisted on an performing an analysis on daylight levels and temperature factors on a house on Newtown, Sidney. This part of the project determined that social and private spaces where completely conditioned to the seasonal temperatures.  Which means social spaces where cool during summer but during winter they were really cold. On the other hand private spaces were to hot during summer but warm a cozy for the winter.

 

The proposal was then a glass chimney, an passive solar heating mechanism that would allow the house to warm up and light up the social spaces on the house, and also some solar curtains for the rooms and the private parts, to block the amount of light on this part of the house