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Solar architect Rolf Disch

"Building must be led from the fossil-atomic to the solar age - the goals are clear: houses that are 100% powered by regenerative energies. Houses with optimized envelopes that do not require additional energy for heating and cooling. Houses as power plants that generate more energy than they consume. All of this is possible today."
Rolf Disch, solar architect from Freiburg

The projects are displayed in descending order by completion date in the standard view.

Completion YearContribution dateNamePOSTCODEResidential unitsCity / town name

    Möckernkiez eG Berlin

    MoeckernKiez-110965 Berlin: Cooperative for self-managed, social and ecological living eG. In the Möckernkiez model project, 471 residential units were created in 14 residential buildings. They were built according to the passive house standard and ecological building criteria. 0.21 parking spaces per unit. Property size: 30,000 m². It is barrier-free throughout and designed to be free of car traffic at the neighbourhood level. The Möckernkiez is located directly adjacent to the southeastern entrances of the Park am Gleisdreieck. Completion: 2018



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    Solar settlement "Am Schlierberg


    79100 Freiburg-Vauban59 UNITS. Architecture: Rolf Disch; plus energy houses with 81 to 210 m2 and variable floor plan design; cost savings during construction due to pre-assembly of building services systems and wooden elements; south-facing orientation; main façade glazing total k-value o.5; CHP for energy supply; Expo 2000 project. Completion: 2006



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    Plus energy house "Heliotrope

    heliotrope_freiburg79100 Freiburg: the house turns to the sun and produces more solar energy than it consumes on average over the year. The house of the architect Rolf Disch, a pioneer of solar architecture, is probably one of the first and best-known plus-energy houses in the world. The Heliotrope is one of the few residential buildings in Europe to have a building-integrated biaxial tracking PV system. Completion: 1994



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    Munzingen solar garden

    791_5_Munz79112 Freiburg-Munzingen: Solar garden, 8 units. Rolf Disch (Freiburg), Year of construction: 1993-1994



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    Settlement "Lindenwäldle

    79098 Freiburg: 18 WE. Rolf Disch/G. Kamps, "social housing", completion: 1985



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    Residential yard "Brickyard

    79249 Merzhausen: 20 units, architecture: Rolf Disch. Flexible, "organic" floor plans, social concept, family-friendly residential courtyard typologies, cost-effective, completion: 1980.



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Further information about Rolf Disch

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Architect's office Rolf Disch

Lecture by Rolf Disch on "Solar Architecture. Energy efficient construction with wood" at the IHF International Timber Construction Forum 2011:
www.forum-holzbau.com/pdf/ebh11_disch.pdf

Portrait of Rolf Disch in Die Zeit (1997):
www.zeit.de/1997/31/Der_Sonne_zugewandt

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