posted on 2018-10-02, 09:27authored byZoltan Magyar, Jeno Kontra, Matyas GutaiMatyas Gutai, Norbert Harmathy, Janos Varfalvi
Japan as a highly industrialized developed country has not been able to solve flat construction in mass production yet. This demand has been existing for several decades, that is why different variants of industrialized flat construction ideas has generated interest. One of these attempts started from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture as an experiment leading to a specific construction technology. Experiments with prefabricated non-silicate-based assembled metal frames – like elements of car chassis – were carried out. They can be organized into modular buildings that can be quickly assembled on site. A new idea about houses with vertical transparent walls, called water houses, was developed by Gutai Matyas, graduate of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where the some-centimeter wide gaps between the boundary surfaces are filled with water. The first test water house has been built and completed in Kecskemet. This unusual system of building construction raises a lot of questions in the field of building physics. They include, among others, heat transmission of glazing as well as thickness and strength of glass plates. The paper elaborates the building physics and technology behind the water house.
Funding
The research was supported by the project K-TET 12-JK-1-2015-010849. Allwater prefabricated construction system
development, measurement and energy monitoring.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
48th HVAC&R Congress and Exhibition
Pages
391 - 401 (11)
Citation
MAGYAR, Z. ... et al, 2017. Building physics of a prototype water house. Presented at the 48th International Congress and Exhibition
on Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (HVAC&R), Belgrade, Serbia, 6-8 December 2017, pp.391-401.
Publisher
SMEITS (Serbian Union of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering)
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VoR (Version of Record)
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Publication date
2017
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/