The long experience of the Department of Sustainable Architecture of ITER is at the service of the second year students of Architecture of the ULPGC.
Since its creation, ITER has been committed to sustainable architecture and the promotion of bioclimatic techniques for use in hot climates. Proof of this is its macro-scale laboratory, the LivingLab Casas Bioclimáticas ITER. The research and dissemination work on the importance of bioclimatism in climates such as the Canary Islands has been a continuous premise in time for ITER.
Yesterday, June 5th, the LivingLab Casas Bioclimáticas ITER received the visit of the second year students of the Architecture Degree of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This visit is part of the subject of Installations I to address the subject of environmental conditioning, in which the concepts of: external environment conditions – climate; psychrometry; indoor environment conditions – environmental comfort and heat transfer in the building envelope are worked.
During the visit the students, accompanied by Dr. Maria Eugenia Armas Cabrera from the Department of Architectural Construction of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and guided by Maria Delgado Diaz, head of the Department of Sustainable Architecture of ITER, have been able to see houses that have been monitored for more than 15 years in order to establish design patterns that can be replicated in hot climates. Each of the houses that make up the LivingLab Casas Bioclimáticas ITER works as an individual laboratory in which they monitor how the bioclimatic solutions integrated in the design are key to establish the parameters that determine the thermal comfort of the house.
