SOLAR DECATHLON COMPETITION

The prototype “Aura 3.1” is conf igured from a series of specialized devices fragments with the ability to be attached with obsolete buildings, which need to be transformed to meet the needs demanded and required by current society. This way, the prototype is defiened as the result of combining a set of these devices [gadgets], which in a real case would be linked, in an isolated way to one or several existing buildings. Each device contributes or improves one or several features of the existing building, interacting with it.

In the prototype there is a part that represents the pre-existing building, forming an interior space with the shape of a square, closed and recognizable. This idea is materialized through a light, recordable hollow and translucent wall in which circulations, stairs and networks of installations are inserted.

This element, which we call “connective envelope” defines the public area inside the prototype.

On this primitive construction, the pre-existing building or element, the set of fragments have attached to give character to the prototype. Each fragments introduce for different actions in relationship to activities to be develop by the individual or the collective like: to rest and sleep, to meet, to cook and organise the cook, the look, interact with the neighbours, to have natural and appropriate lighting and ventilation, to getenergy, to cultivate, to store, etc.

Each of these actions materialized in specialized fragments is identified with the parameters defined in Solar Decathlon Rules: living room, kitchen, workplace, rest or cleanliness, as well as the central meeting space where the public visit will be possible and where they take the place for the different dinners to be organized during the competition.