Our work process to create these skins has been program-structure-skin. And this skin is an expression of energy. If we think about Gaudí’s La Pedrera, it is a construction system that projects a landscape towards the city. It is the building that must have a dialogue with the city. We need solutions. How do we find these solutions? Let’s take a scientific look at urban landscape, let’s make it a performance, let’s make it performative, with energy as its script. This is the project. This is Media-ICT: meeting energy criteria through beautiful, performative, communicative, urban landscape, which is educational, opening people’s eyes, so that they are aware of key problems such as energy.
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY of the Media-ICT: ETFE SKIN
The mayor, in his speech the other day, talked to us about green cities. If we consider Jeremy Rifkin’s theory, buildings represent 30-40% of the climate change problem. As architects, we are the main cause of climate change... So we need to take it seriously. In the European Union there is talk of a 20% reduction in Co 2 emissions by 2020. Some 20% of our building’s energy will be clean energy with regard to what we consume. Media-ICT’s targets: 1-20% Co 2 reduction due to the use of district cooling, clean energy 2-10% Co 2 reduction due to the photovoltaic roof 3-55% Co 2 reduction due to the dynamic ETFE sun filters 4-10% Co 2 reduction due to energy efficiency related to smart sensors Total 95% Co 2 reduction, the Media-ICT is a NET building almost a net zero building. As an example, if the building code demands a solar factor of 0.45, thanks to the new systems and patents in this building, we can achieve a target of 0.10. Another exemple is photovoltaic roof that produces about 29,000 kWh/year, which represents some 18.8 tones of savings in atmospheric Co 2 emissions. The Media-ICT is this new wave of green architecture, with energy as its principal argument.