This research project

DESCRIPTION

This project focuses on the participatory design of solar control devices for windows by means of low-cost tensed structures, composed of recycled household waste products like tetra briks and renewable energy systems, and prepared to be assembled during sustainable school architecture workshops by students and teachers from elementary schools.

OBJECTIVES

The general objective of this project is to reduce the environmental impact caused by our school architecture by improving the comfort and learning process users have available to them.

The main particular objectives are:

a) Design new low cost solar control devices.

b) Organize didactic workshops to optimize students’ learning process.

d) Increase the thermal and light comfort in our school architecture through the use of these new devices.

f) Reuse appropriate recycled household waste products like tetra briks and contribute to environmental awareness and education in general by our new generations.

JUSTIFICATION

The main novelty of this project is the design of protective solar devices for their assembly during didactic workshops attended by teachers and elementary students. In this sense, students and teachers will be involved in the dry assembly process of a solar control device. Likewise, a multidisciplinary team of experts from the construction sector and the education system will participate in its design.

Another important novelty is the design of tensed structures through the reuse of recycled household waste products like tetra briks or plastic containers suitable for use in schools, at a low cost for these innovative solar control devices.