Construction of the “Boiling Point Energy House”
Paks, Tolna County, South Transdanubia, Hungary
The aim of the investment was to provide an example of a building which can adapt to the outer circumstances, such as temperature, solar exposure, humidity, ventilation, etc. by a mobile outer shell moved by a pulley system. The Energy House was built using traditional “adobe” bricks and a monolithic concrete structure, therefore it can exploit the advantages of said brick, which are improved humidity control due to the ability to absorb 40 times more water than modern bricks and to accumulate more heat which is useful both during winter and summer.
Benefits
The gains are diverse:
- the building itself benefits from the materials used as explained above and there are specific advantages coming from implementing the building as a project, since it is a testbed for specific technologies in itself.
- The City gained a community space, but the unusual solutions, such as the moving outer hull prove that such experimental techniques could be used elsewhere if the energy consumption data will support its usefulness.
- The Boiling Point Energy House gained a lot of publicity on its own drawing attention of the general public to energy efficiency.