44649 Herne: This is not a housing estate, but the concept could equally be applied to housing. The Naturhuset apartment house by Bengt Warne in Stockholm was one of the first pioneering buildings to implement the house-in-house principle with a shell of glass. Also the Student dormitory ESA in Kaiserslautern is built like this. The project in Herne, however, is the most spectacular of its kind in this form. Completion: 1999
Designed in partnership by the German architectural firm HHS Planer & Architekten AG and the French architectural firm Jourda & Perraudin (Francoise Helene Jourda and Gilles Perraudin), the building is enclosed in a 20,000 square metre glass climate envelope that creates a Mediterranean climate similar to that in Nice. This is on average 5 °C warmer than the outside temperature. Water features, earth channels and large gates prevent overheating in summer. The solar system in the roof, was the largest building-integrated system of its kind at the time. The supports inside are made of 56 spruce trunks.
With an installed capacity of 1 megawatt, the system generates around 600,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year - more than double the academy's requirements. A battery storage system reduces load peaks, compensates for possible grid repercussions from the solar plant and is an emergency power supply for the academy.
Three CHP modules together generated 9,000 MWh of electricity and 12,000 MWh of heat annually. The electricity was fed into the Stadtwerke Herne grid. The heat was used to supply the Mont-Cenis Academy, an adjacent housing estate and a hospital.
Links
www.stadtwerke-herne.de/...energiepark_mont_cenis.html
https://de.wikipedia.org/…#Akademie_Mont-Cenis
https://fah.nrw.de/media/galerie/rundgang-bildern
Last Updated: January 23, 2021
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All project/s of the planning office: Helene et Perraudin, Manfred Hegger, Ove Arup and Partners, Schlaich Bergermann and Partners; Urban region: Herne and surrounding area; Country: GermanyCharacteristics: ; Typology: Building; Thematic: View or try out, Building Exhibition, Education Building, Renewable, Photovoltaics, Commercial/office building, Grey water purification, House-in-house concept, Wood construction, IBA Emscher Park, Rainwater harvesting, Rainwater infiltration, Solar architecture, Water design, Winter garden / Glass house
