SOLTAG as a source of life
SOLTAG is an energy optimised home that lives, breathes and produces quality of life for people. A healthy organism to call home. Where the rhythm keeps pace with you, 24 hours a day.
Under the sky, facing the sun, SOLTAG obtains its energy via sluices open to the heavens.
SOLTAG is a living home, designed as an energy-generating climate shield. SOLTAG is a prime candidate for a sustainable home of the future with optimum living conditions for people.
SOLTAG produces energy and a healthy indoor climate for houses and residents without “polluting” its surroundings. The house is self-sufficient in terms of energy for heating, and creates CO2-neutral heating through solar energy. The home interacts with nature’s upper air strata via strategically positioned windows, solar panels, solar cells and air ducts. Sun, daylight and fresh air are brought into the home and transformed into electricity, heat, natural lighting and ventilation.
The home recharges both material and human “batteries”. It produces its own heat for domestic hot water and hot water for under-floor heating.´It generates its own electricity for hot-air – and ventilation pumps – and combined with careful choice of materials and positioning of roof windows, it provides a healthy indoor climate, optimum daylighting and beautiful and functional illumination with zero power consumption. Altogether these features serve to enhance quality of life.
SOLTAG as a source of life
SOLTAG is an energy optimised home that lives, breathes and produces quality of life for people. A healthy organism to call home. Where the rhythm keeps pace with you, 24 hours a day.
Under the sky, facing the sun, SOLTAG obtains its energy via sluices open to the heavens.
SOLTAG is a living home, designed as an energy-generating climate shield. SOLTAG is a prime candidate for a sustainable home of the future with optimum living conditions for people.
SOLTAG produces energy and a healthy indoor climate for houses and residents without “polluting” its surroundings. The house is self-sufficient in terms of energy for heating, and creates CO2-neutral heating through solar energy. The home interacts with nature’s upper air strata via strategically positioned windows, solar panels, solar cells and air ducts. Sun, daylight and fresh air are brought into the home and transformed into electricity, heat, natural lighting and ventilation.
The home recharges both material and human “batteries”. It produces its own heat for domestic hot water and hot water for under-floor heating.´It generates its own electricity for hot-air – and ventilation pumps – and combined with careful choice of materials and positioning of roof windows, it provides a healthy indoor climate, optimum daylighting and beautiful and functional illumination with zero power consumption. Altogether these features serve to enhance quality of life.
The project:
SOLTAG’s prefabricated modules are manufactured under optimum conditions in the production hall then transported to the building site, where the modules are joined to form a housing unit.
“New” building plots in towns, out in the country or on water
SOLTAG is a holistic project conceived in cooperation between urban planners, architects and energy and daylight experts. The project was designed to optimise homes on every scale and parameter recognised by these professionals. They inspired each other and injected their synergies into the project.
SOLTAG is part of the “Demohouse” research project, which is funded under the EU’s “Sixth Framework Programme”. A research project involving research institutes, housing associations and manufacturers from the building sector cooperating to demonstrate energy efficiency in buildings. The project is being conducted in seven European countries: Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Spain and Greece. The purpose of the project is to demonstrate energy efficient refurbishment of existing buildings and provide examples of future housing standards.
The project:
SOLTAG’s prefabricated modules are manufactured under optimum conditions in the production hall then transported to the building site, where the modules are joined to form a housing unit.
SOLTAG is basically intended as a roof refurbishment solution – a housing unit that can be attached to existing 60s and 70s multi-storey housing without needing to be connected to the building's existing energy systems. The flat roofs can then be used as “new” building plots with upgraded roof and housing areas.
The project:
SOLTAG’s prefabricated modules are manufactured under optimum conditions in the production hall then transported to the building site, where the modules are joined to form a housing unit.
However, SOLTAG is also ideal for new buildings such as terraced housing units, single-family housing in towns, out in the country and even on water as houseboats.
The idea of the energy efficient home was realised in 2005 as a demo house. SOLTAG is a prototype developed and produced for display and demonstration. The demo house is a 1:1 source of inspiration where visitors can experience and measure the features for themselves.
SOLTAG encompasses a visionary plan while accommodating the restricted perspective within the grasp of mankind today. Our ecological and economic responsibilities are catered for, and careful, detailed thought has gone into the design, technology and lifestyle the architecture offers its users.
Energy:
The independent heating production and maintenance are achieved by harnessing solar energy, which is generated by the windows’ natural propensity to heat up, and by the solar panels that produce domestic hot water and under-floor heating.
An exemplary project for the future
SOLTAG illustrates the vision that all future buildings should be sustainable. The house stands as a landmark and an active candidate for how we can rethink buildings and building automation to support the drive for a better environment.
SOLTAG answers the call for zero-energy, CO2-neutral housing of the future. By use of thermal solar energy and upgrading the use of solar cells, we can achieve an energy consumption of 0 kWh/m2 for heating.
Energy:
The independent heating production and maintenance are achieved by harnessing solar energy, which is generated by the windows’ natural propensity to heat up, and by the solar panels that produce domestic hot water and under-floor heating.
CO2-neutral housing
SOLTAG implements the new energy rules in a visionary way. Heating insulation and ventilation have both been considered in creating this living, sustainable house. The essence of the project was to balance energy absorption, insulation capacity and air exchange. The home is an “energy station” that also features pleasing design and a healthy indoor climate. The hi-tech energy system is well designed and integrated.
Energy:
The independent heating production and maintenance are achieved by harnessing solar energy, which is generated by the windows’ natural propensity to heat up, and by the solar panels that produce domestic hot water and under-floor heating.
An integrated heating system
SOLTAG is devised as a home that runs itself and is independent of external heating systems.
The independent heating production and maintenance are achieved by harnessing solar energy, which is generated by the windows’ natural propensity to heat up, and by the solar panels that produce domestic hot water and under-floor heating. Solar cells produce the electricity to operate the pumps and ventilators.
A compact, built-in heat-recovery ventilation unit and a mechanical ventilator transfer the heat from the “spent”, heated air to new fresh air taken from outside. Ninety percent of the heat is recycled.
A solid climate screen with strategically placed low-energy windows, 350 mm of insulation in the walls and 400 mm in the roof, and an airtight construction without cold bridges keeps the heat in.
Architecture:
SOLTAG integrates optimised holistic solutions through a partnership of specialists in response to the latest legislation, urban development, human needs and products. The architecture incorporates all these aspects and gives the vision form.
Sustainable home unit
SOLTAG is based on the latest know-how in sustainable construction. The architecture exploits the best energy-optimising building components and incorporates the prefabricated elements so that the construction technology is correctly applied and the elements speak the same design language. The various building components, each with its own energy function, are used to strengthen and contribute to a holistic solution featuring a healthy indoor climate in contemporary energy-balanced architecture built to respond to people.
SOLTAG has its own life and generates nourishment for the residents’ comfort. The 45-degree saddle roof faces south, so the thermal solar panels and solar cells on the large roof area are put to full use. The roof reaches skywards while protecting its living space below. The home naturally integrates its many energy mechanisms. SOLTAG has many sluices and energy aggregates for air and electricity intake, but this circulation is so unobtrusive that there is room for people. The pumps and ventilation system are at the heart of the house, assembled in a closed core area at the centre of the house. The air ducts are hidden under the roof and the solar cells and panels are incorporated in the roofing panels. People are in focus and the home creates the setting for a good life.
Architecture:
SOLTAG integrates optimised holistic solutions through a partnership of specialists in response to the latest legislation, urban development, human needs and products. The architecture incorporates all these aspects and gives the vision form.
Sustainable home unit
The home is constructed from modules designed and fitted out as prefabricated kits of high manufacturing quality. The modules are installed quickly, which minimises the nuisance factor for residents in the buildings where SOLTAG is built on. The modules can be connected to existing buildings or constructed for new buildings. The modules are custom-made and adapted for each different project, with consideration for the building context and financial resources.
The home comprises two basic modules that fit together. One module contains the main installations and kitchen, bathroom, hall and bedroom. The other module consists of dining and living area with an open loft-style area. The north-facing frontage has an external gallery, which provides the most flexible access. To the south, it has a cantilevered balcony that fully exploits the depth of the house.
Architecture:
Each part of the home has its own character, view, lighting and carefully chosen materials.
The homes are placed in a framework construction that also forms the basis for the external gallery and balconies. The underlying framework can be either integrated into new buildings or function as a super-structure on existing houses of various depths.
The roof structure is a steel frame with timber collar beams. The kitchen and installation wall acts as room divider with built-in units.
The open saddle roof structure creates attractive spacious rooms. Under the roof is a useful open loft-style area and at floor level, raised window podiums invite to play and rest. Each part of the home has its own character, view, lighting and carefully chosen materials.
The wood and plaster board is silicate-painted with diffusion-permitting breathable surfaces. The zinc “click roof” has vertical rebates naturally suited to roof windows, solar panels and solar cells. The zinc sheets also comprise the upper shell of the innovative roof air heating system.
SOLTAG is an important contribution that will help reintroduce saddle roofs as an architectural and technological asset.
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