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Research and practice: Energy follows form: design parameters and energy use
Current ideas in energy-efficiency in buildings are taking a more holistic approach to assessing energy consumption, instead of just focusing on singl...
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Magazine: The passive house – an outdated concept or suitable for export?
Twenty years ago, a group of clients built the first passive house in Darmstadt. Since then, energy regulations in architecture have gradually become ...
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Background: On the way to a 2000 watt society
The UN IPCC climate committee never ceases to stress how urgent it is for us to reduce the output of greenhouse gases. Scientists at the ETH in Zurich...
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Monte-Rosa-Hütte near Zermatt
The New Monte-Rosa-Hütte stands in a landscape of ice and rock near Zermatt. Above it tower the highest summits in the Swiss Alps, the Dufourspitze (4...
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Unilever Headquarters in Hamburg
Although one of the giants of the European economy, Unilever is not all that well-known despite being represented on retail shelves by a huge ass...
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Apartment building in Bennau
“Kraftwerk B” (Power Station B), the architects’ name for the 7-apartment building, is next to St. Sebastian’s church in the middle of Bennau, a distr...
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