Solar Decathlon Europe 2019 – Collaboration ETSAV-EEBE

ETSAV director Prof. Albert Cuchí and the UPC faculty advisors Torsten Masseck and Martì Obiols, visited the installations of the The Barcelona East School of Engineering (EEEB) on the new Diagonal-Besòs Campus of UPC, searching for possible collaborations for SDE 2019.

The ETSAV representatives met with the EEBE director Prof. Luis Miguel Llanes and his team, and got introduced to existing initiatives at the EEBE like the e-Tech Racing Formula Student Project, the Lego League team and others, with the aim of identifying common interests and formats of collaborations between architects and engineers in the current Solar Decathlon Europe competition. 

Recent developments in the fields of smart buildings and smart cities clearly enlarge the field of possible collaborations between the two disciplines with topics like decentralized renewable energy generation, energy storage, smart mobility, smart grids, demand-side management, user-building interaction, Internet of Things (IoT), and similar solutions and technologies which nowadays are searching for their place in our build environment.

URBAN INTELLIGENCE - Roadmaps for Energy (R4E): Final Conference

The URBAN INTELLIGENE - global conference on smart cities has taken place in Murcia on 6^th and 7^th of February. The event included the final Conference of the R4E project, with the partner cities and knowledge partners presenting the outcomes of this HORIZON 2020 project to the national and international audience.

In the R4E project eight partner cities (Eindhoven, Forli, Istanbul, Newcastle, Murcia, Palermo, Sant Cugat del Vallès and Tallinn) and two knowledge partners (TU Eindhoven and UPC) worked together in developing the Energy Roadmaps of partner cities in order to achieve their ‘Smart Cities’ ambition.

UPC participated in the project as knowledge partner in the fields of Smart Buildings and Smart Urban Spaces, developing corresponding desk studies, conducting experts’ interviews and creating Generic Roadmaps of these two topics. Dr. Torsten Masseck, UPC Coordinator of the project, presented a short summery of the UPC contributions under the title “Holistic Energy Transition – 6 Takeaways for City Leaders”.

ETSAV selected for SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2019

[eng] The ETSAV - Metropolitan School of Architecture has been selected as one of 15 international university teams for participation in the 2019 edition of SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE.

After 2010 [LOW3], 2012 [(e)co] and 2014 [Ressò], our School of Architecture will go for a new prototype solar house for the 2019 edition, which will take place in Szentendre, Hungary between July and September 2019.

Under the current ETSAV director Prof. Albert Cuchí, the Solar Decathlon projects are a priority lines for consolidating the education model of our school towards a much more projects-based learning through prototypes and real interventions.