Print Email Facebook Twitter Renewed Trombe wall passively reduces energy consumption Title Renewed Trombe wall passively reduces energy consumption Author Wattez, Y.C.M. (TU Delft Building Physics) Cosmatu, T. (TU Delft Design Informatics) Tenpierik, M.J. (TU Delft Building Physics) Turrin, M. (TU Delft Design Informatics) Heinzelmann, Florian (SHAU Architecture and Urbanism) Contributor Brotas, Luisa (editor) Roaf, Susan (editor) Nicol, Fergus (editor) Date 2017 Abstract In order to reduce the energy demand of households, a new type of Trombe wall is being designed during a ‘research through design project’ called ‘Double Face 2.0’. A Trombe wall is a passive system that reduces the energy demand of a building. In winter, it captures the heat from the sun during the day and releases this heat into the building at night. In summer, it captures the heat from internal sources during the day and releases that heat at night towards outdoors. First simulations showed that our prototype of a lightweight, translucent, adjustable Trombe wall reduces the energy demand for heating of a typical Dutch household by 25-30%. Instead of stone-like materials, the new type of Trombe wall will consist of translucent materials: phase change material (pcm) and insulating aerogel. The insulation gives the opportunity to direct the thermal mass of the pcm. In this way, the system is adjustable for cooling and heating purposes. A selection of the design concepts is described in this paper, explaining the design choices and method of validation. Depending on the level of detail, different simulation software has been used. This paper describes the comparison and the experiences of using it. Subject Trombe wallpassiveheatingcoolingpcm To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0aa4b2dc-e5d3-457c-a33a-b74df781e888 Publisher Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings (NCEUB) Source Design to Thrive: Proceedings of the 33rd PLEA International Conference, III Event PLEA 2017: 33rd International Conference "Design to Thrive", 2017-07-03 → 2017-07-05, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 Y.C.M. Wattez, T. Cosmatu, M.J. Tenpierik, M. Turrin, Florian Heinzelmann Files PDF Wattez_et_al_2017_Renewed ... mption.pdf 1.76 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0aa4b2dc-e5d3-457c-a33a-b74df781e888/datastream/OBJ/view