Health and Habitability in the Solar Decathlon University Competitions: Statistical Quantification and Real Influence on Comfort Conditions
| Autor: | Álvaro López-Escamilla, Antonio Millán-Jiménez, Miguel Torres-García, Rafael Herrera-Limones |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I., Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería Energética., Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Farmacología, pediatría y radiología., Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I (ETSA), Universidad de Sevilla. HUM965: Transhumancias: Hábitat, Salud, Patrimonio, Tecnología y Arte |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Architectural engineering
medicine architecture Universities Computer science 020209 energy Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis lcsh:Medicine habitat 02 engineering and technology 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Article Competition (economics) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) university 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering comfort Humans Architecture Ecosystem Solar Decathlon education Habitability lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Humidity health sustainability Learning-by-doing (economics) Fundamental human needs Europe Sustainability Quality of Life competition |
| Zdroj: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla instname International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 5926, p 5926 (2020) idUS: Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla Universidad de Sevilla (US) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 17 Issue 16 |
| Popis: | Medicine and architecture are disciplines with the main objectives of satisfying the fundamental needs of human beings: health, comfort, well-being, safety, and ensuring an acceptable quality of life in a sustainable habitat. In both areas of knowledge, the advances and the most innovative proposals in the fields of research and teaching are focused on transversal knowledge and the use of learning methods through problem solving (learning by doing). The student competitions called &ldquo Solar Decathlon&rdquo are focused on the development of these concepts, in which prototypes of sustainable and, as far as possible, healthy social housing are tested. In these university competitions, the design of energy-efficient and comfortable living environments that contribute to the health of the occupants are encouraged however, the methodology for evaluating the &ldquo comfort conditions&rdquo stipulated in the competition rules considers only parameters that can be monitored by sensors. For this article, the prototypes presented by the &ldquo Solar Decathlon Team of the University of Seville&rdquo to the editions of said competition held in Latin America and Europe (in 2015 and 2019, respectively) are being studied. The present research starts from the fact that the unique consideration of measurable indices (such as temperature, humidity, etc.), is clearly insufficient when it comes to evaluating the real conditions of habitability and comfort that a domestic architectural space presents. For this reason, a theoretical&ndash practical analysis is carried out by means of surveys, with the final objective of determining a methodology for evaluating comfort&mdash complementary to that of the competition&mdash which assesses other relevant issues and which, in short, takes into account the repercussion on people&rsquo s health. From our analysis, we conclude that at least these two methodologies should be used to evaluate comfort because they are individually considered incomplete in terms of the data provided by each one of them. The survey-based methodology provides complementary information on comfort and health that could be taken into account in future editions of Solar Decathlon. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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