Abstract
An educational building must integrate smart building strategies to ensure indoor environmental quality. Thermal, acoustic, visual comfort and indoor air quality are to be considered, otherwise they can develop the sick building syndrome. Smart buildings solve this potential problem by providing a highly efficient living ambience that includes safety, comfort and a good quality of living/learning/working experience, that helps the users achieve their best possible performance. These buildings should integrate advanced technologies such as automated systems and the implementation of architectural skins, well and functional designed spaces and architectural features that act as active bioclimatic solutions. The following is a case study of an architectural project for an elementary and junior high school academic campus in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico that has to deal with the extreme climate conditions of the location, while applying the best alternative and bioclimatic strategies through the implementation of inmotics, a responsive architectural skin, sustainable construction systems and native vegetation. In doing so, a comprehensive environmentally friendly building is created, taking advantage of the surrounding natural conditions, using the latest environmentally oriented systems and technologies. The result is a healthy, safe, and productive space for its users that greatly benefits the teaching-learning process.
Highlights
As Francisco Vargas and Isabel Gallego [1] mention, the different ways in which we interpret environmental conditions have created concepts such as the sick building, in relation to air or interior environmental quality, which seeks to understand the complexity of an indoor microclimate, the possible contaminants in closed environments, and their implications on the health of a building’s users
The particular conditions of these buildings create the emergence of sick building syndrome, observed in many contemporary cities
Smart buildings differ from previous generations in their ability to respond, adapt and the flexibility they have in their resources
Summary
As Francisco Vargas and Isabel Gallego [1] mention, the different ways in which we interpret environmental conditions have created concepts such as the sick building, in relation to air or interior environmental quality, which seeks to understand the complexity of an indoor microclimate, the possible contaminants in closed environments, and their implications on the health of a building’s users. Their goal is to provide greater efficiency and control in the building’s operation, responding to a better quality of life to users inside the buildings [5] In this way, an active strategy that is used in these buildings is the implementation of architectural skin as an advanced technology that protect the facades from climatic constraints, and regulate an adequate temperature within the buildings. This can be achieved by control strategies and renewable energy systems that improve the energy consumption of the building, its comfort and its functional characteristics for its occupants [6]. The school is located in San Pedro Garza García, a municipality of the great metropolitan area of the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, a region of extreme climate conditions in northeast Mexico (semi-arid climate with hot summers, mild winters and little rain year-round), in which technology will be implemented through the incorporation of responsive architectural skin and an artisanal construction system
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