Viale Toscana, 2 residence
net zero energy building, Milan

 

The project involves the construction of a residential complex consisting of two buildings of three stories on the street front and six floors on the inner one. They relates to the context and to the green space through commercial and services, with the endowment of car-boxes in the basement.

The project experiences a particular presence of loads: seniors and students. This type of cohabitation is increasingly desirable: the elderly population is increasing, and the proximity of the area to a major college offers the possibility to rent rooms to students at affordable prices in exchange for domestic care. To ensure this coexistence have been designed small apartments and studios, in order to ensure a great flexibility, so that they can be assembled according to specific needs. The peculiarity of the buildings is the choice of a double pitch sloping roofs made of reinforced lightweight concrete and coated by sheet metal on which rests an installation of photovoltaic panels, which, in combination with the modules of photovoltaic glass placed on the south facades, ensures the entire electricity needs of the complex. To ensure a higher comfort inside, the house has been designed with a distinctive façade system in the South: the overhang of the floor, which becomes a balcony in the main facade, offers a private outdoor space and provides a first shading on the large windows. In the facade is added the mobile vertical component of shielding consisting of perforated metal sheet panels, which, by filtering the direct light, do not exclude the indirect lighting, because they are placed on the outer edge of the balcony. A heating and cooling system powered by a heat pump, which uses the ground water on site as a renewable resource, together with plant engineering specifications, qualify the intervention as a Net Zero Energy Building.