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Housing Alternatives in Chicago

STL recently had the opportunity to design an alternative to collective residential living in Chicago. For this effort, STL applied two distinct and separate approaches to the design of an energy-efficient building. The first strategy incorporates passive design principles that have been employed since the first human shelters were built reliant primarily on site location and climate parameters (latitude, temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation). As a counterpoint to this approach a second strategy was proposed which relied on technologies available today to capitalize on the ability of the building to produce energy on site (photo-voltaic surfaces, wind turbines, etc) while micromanaging its use with advanced digital Building Automation Systems.

Thursday | 27 March 2008 | STL News