CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

Since ancient times, people have adapted dwellings to climate, searching for an efficient shelter that would provide them comfort in an uncomfortable and changing world. The industrial revolution leaded to architectural modern movement, in which, the emphasis was put mainly on the efficiency of the form-function concept, leaving comfort issues to the incorporation of auxiliary devices. As a consequence, the massive use of non-renewable energy to condition spaces, made buildings of the 20th century (and the ones that are still built under the post-industrial paradigm), the ones that are nowadays originating most environmental impacts in cities compromising our present and future. In the same direction, pre-industrial climate-adapted typologies (such as half-patio houses), also need to evolve to answer current inhabitant comfort needs. We believe that good architecture understands the past and rescues still standing values, together with contemporary techniques that allow the development of an energy efficient up-to-date architecture. For this purpose it is studied the thermal behaviour of a bioclimatic house projected by Arch. M. Diez and Eng. F. Esteves in the city of Mendoza, Argentina (32º40SL, 68º51WL, 750 masl continental temperate climate). This house rescues concepts from the traditional half-patio 1900 houses and also incorporates summer and winter passive conditioning strategies. Half-patio houses roots are found in the mediterranean patio houses, and where brought by Spanish and Italian inmigrants because of climatic similarities. Measurements on site were performed in order to evaluate the thermal behaviour of this present bioclimatic house that has learned its lesson from the past.

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