Tainan Rotating Solar Home
R&D project for a small house that can adapt to the future needs in Bao’an Tainan in Taiwan. The home floats on a fish-farm, reducing evaporation of the water and making an attracting near the train station.
The house can rotate for improved performance:
1. For tracking the sun, optimizing to gain 12% more solar energy from its roof PV;
2. For improving cross-through ventilation, and;
3. For a changing view.
This is a project developed by NCKU, Research Center for Energy Technology and Strategy (RCETS) and Waterarchitect in 2016.
The shape of the building was simulated to test parameters of solar-gain, ventilation, design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), and environmental impact of the materials.
More info can be found in the conference paper:
van Bueren, B., Matsuoka, R., & Chen, Y. (2015). Floating rotating house; Case study of a Tainan fisherman’s house design. ICAADE, Bangkok.
