COMFORT
The project consists in providing refuge for Concordia shuttle bus services'users, creating a n ideal environment for waiting, with adequate thermal protection in all seasons. The core of the project is the house archetype, which embodies the fundamental characteristics of a comfortable home and grants the user a warm wait in the winter, and a fresh waiting the summer. This becomes possible due to the year average temperature that can be found 3 meters underground and brought to surface through the use of ventilated pipes. The design does not use electrical energy, and, during the cold seasons, it only uses the soil heat - which was warmed up by the sun and was kept due to its thermal inertia - to increase the bus stop's temperature. The construction is defined by a steel portal frame that is embraced by wooden walls with insulation protection. These structures are covered by an inverted extensive green roof that helps increasing the thermal capacitance of the bus stop, which means it will take longer to be cold, during the winter, and it will take longer to be hot, during the summer. In a very simplified way, the heating system works semi naturally. A pipe network is organized under the ground, connecting the air outside the bus stop with the air inside it, warming it up or cooling it down depending on the bus stop's temperature. The soil temperature, as said before, is the same temperature as the year average temperature of the place, that way, on winter it will increase the temperatures and on summer it will decrease it.This design substitutes the use of heaters - electrical or gas ones - and the energy they waste. If measured in kW, it saves 1080 kWh per month, that's over 4300kWh during the winter - energy that could charge a mini USB phone 864 times, charge a notebook for 6.643 hours, blow dry your hair 1.653 times, watch television for 21.500hours straight.
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