New LOW3: Living Zero! course started!

After 1 year of exclusive online courses, we could successfully start again our LOW3: Living Zero! Course with a first in-person session at the campus. This is great news, as meeting, discussing, measuring, and experimenting are essential activities of the course which require the experimental environment of our LOW3 solar house.

The course is fully booked with 20 participants and many Erasmus students giving the course once again an international dimension. 

The house was fully opened, measuring CO2 concentration and wind speed for cross ventilation to assure a safe environment for all. 

Housing, Energy and Lifestyle are again the main topics, supported by the 6 online Learning Modules of the course on sustainability, sustainable housing, solar technologies (PV and solar thermal), materials, and water.

The course is held in English, and its mixed online and in-person format is in times of COVID for sure an interesting format to explore also for other courses.

For more information: https://mooc.upc.edu/ 

 

First year students visit the LOW3 Living Lab

First year students visited the LOW3 Living Lab during their first day of Architectural Studies at ETSAV. Introduction in sustainable housing and construction as well as the possibility to participate already as a student in real building projects like the Solar Decathlon houses at ETSAV, have been the important messages for them.

The visit was held together with their teachers of “Basic of Technology”, Enrique Corbat and Isabel Vega, together with the director of the LOW3 Living Lab Torsten Masseck.

In his role as Vice Dean for Student Affairs, Prof. Masseck introduced students already during their welcome session in the morning into decarbonization, efficiency and circular economy as main challenges of the building sector.

With these important inputs, the first day of their studies, our new ETSAV students will hopefully stay curious and demanding regarding a new way of doing architecture, evolving step by step to “game changers” of our profession.