Harvard HouseZero Snøhetta

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架构师提供的文本描述。哈佛大学设计研究生院(Gsd)的哈佛绿色建筑和城市中心(Cgbc)今天宣布，将其位于剑桥的20世纪40年代前的总部改造成一个雄心勃勃的生活实验室和一个能源正向的超效率原型，这将有助于我们以新的方式理解建筑。“零屋”的设计从一开始就受到雄心勃勃的性能目标的推动，包括几乎零能耗的供暖和冷却，白天的零电照明，100%的自然通风，以及产生零碳排放。该建筑物的目的是在其使用期间产生更多的能源，而不是用来翻新它，并在随后的整个运作过程中产生更多的能量。SN hetta是该项目的首席建筑师，Skanska Tenikk挪威是该项目的首席能源工程师。

Text description provided by the architects. The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced today the completion of HouseZero, the retrofitting of its headquarters in a pre-1940s building in Cambridge into an ambitious living-laboratory and an energy-positive prototype for ultra-efficiency that will help us to understand buildings in new ways. The design of HouseZero has been driven by radically ambitious performance targets from the outset, including nearly zero energy for heating and cooling, zero electric lighting during the day, operating with 100 percent natural ventilation, and producing zero carbon emissions. The building is intended to produce more energy over its lifetime than was used to renovate it and throughout its subsequent operation. Snøhetta was the project’s lead architect and Skanska Teknikk Norway was the lead energy engineer.

Text description provided by the architects. The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced today the completion of HouseZero, the retrofitting of its headquarters in a pre-1940s building in Cambridge into an ambitious living-laboratory and an energy-positive prototype for ultra-efficiency that will help us to understand buildings in new ways. The design of HouseZero has been driven by radically ambitious performance targets from the outset, including nearly zero energy for heating and cooling, zero electric lighting during the day, operating with 100 percent natural ventilation, and producing zero carbon emissions. The building is intended to produce more energy over its lifetime than was used to renovate it and throughout its subsequent operation. Snøhetta was the project’s lead architect and Skanska Teknikk Norway was the lead energy engineer.

利用House Zero作为工作空间和研究工具，CGBC将使用来自House Zero每个组件中数百个传感器的数百万个数据点来持续监视其性能。这些感官数据也将为哈佛大学的研究人员提供对复杂建筑行为的前所未有的理解。这些数据将反过来推动涉及计算模拟的研究，帮助cbc开发新的系统和数据驱动的学习算法，以促进能源效率、健康和可持续性。

Leveraging HouseZero as both a workspace and a research tool, the CGBC will use millions of data points from hundreds of sensors embedded within each component of HouseZero to continually monitor its performance. This sensory data will also provide Harvard’s researchers with an unprecedented understanding of complex building behavior. This data will in turn, fuel research involving computational simulation, helping the CGBC develop new systems and data-driven learning algorithms that promote energy-efficiency, health, and sustainability.

Leveraging HouseZero as both a workspace and a research tool, the CGBC will use millions of data points from hundreds of sensors embedded within each component of HouseZero to continually monitor its performance. This sensory data will also provide Harvard’s researchers with an unprecedented understanding of complex building behavior. This data will in turn, fuel research involving computational simulation, helping the CGBC develop new systems and data-driven learning algorithms that promote energy-efficiency, health, and sustainability.

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哈佛绿色建筑与城市中心(Harvard Center For Green Builders And City)创始主任阿里·马尔卡维(Ali Malkawi)说：“House Zero的灵活、数据驱动的基础设施将使我们能够进一步研究，使建筑行为神秘莫测，并设计下一代的超高效建筑。”他也是“零屋”项目的创建者和领导者。“通过为长期研究创造一个原型和一个基础设施，我们希望提高对超高效改造的兴趣，并在建筑物的设计和运营方面激发重大变化。”

“HouseZero’s flexible, data-driven infrastructure will allow us to further research that demystifies building behavior, and design the next generation of ultra-efficient structures,” said Ali Malkawi, founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities and the creator and leader of the HouseZero project. “By creating both a prototype and an infrastructure for long-term research, we hope to raise interest in ultra-efficient retrofits and inspire substantial shifts in the design and operation of buildings.”

“HouseZero’s flexible, data-driven infrastructure will allow us to further research that demystifies building behavior, and design the next generation of ultra-efficient structures,” said Ali Malkawi, founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities and the creator and leader of the HouseZero project. “By creating both a prototype and an infrastructure for long-term research, we hope to raise interest in ultra-efficient retrofits and inspire substantial shifts in the design and operation of buildings.”

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哈佛大学GSD院长Mohsen Mostafavi和Alexander和Victoria Wiley设计教授Mohsen Mostafavi说：“哈佛大厦零号是效率和变革设计的一个非凡的物理例子。”作为一个活生生的实验室，它为哈佛学生和研究人员提供了无与伦比的创新基础设施，供他们在世界各地设计下一代可持续建筑和城市时进行探索和研究。“

“Harvard HouseZero is an extraordinary physical example of efficiency and transformative design,” said Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard GSD and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. “As a living laboratory, it equips Harvard students and researchers with an unparalleled, innovative infrastructure for exploration and research as they design the next generation of sustainable buildings and cities around the world.”

“Harvard HouseZero is an extraordinary physical example of efficiency and transformative design,” said Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard GSD and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. “As a living laboratory, it equips Harvard students and researchers with an unparalleled, innovative infrastructure for exploration and research as they design the next generation of sustainable buildings and cities around the world.”

作为一个原型，House Zero致力于解决当今世界上最大的能源问题之一-低效的现有建筑。美国建筑库存约占能源消耗的40%，其中近四分之一用于住房。业主每年花费超过2，300亿美元取暖、制冷和为1.136亿户家庭供电。[AL9]解决这些有问题的建筑库存中的能源效率低下问题，为遏制其对气候变化的影响提供了巨大的机会。通过超高效的改造策略，零屋创造了一个减少能源需求和提高业主成本节约的蓝图。

As a prototype, HouseZero works to address one of the biggest energy problems in the world today— inefficient existing buildings. The U.S. building stock is responsible for around 40 percent of energy consumption, with housing nearly a quarter of that use. Property owners spend more than $230 billion annually heating, cooling and powering its 113.6 million homes. [AL9] Addressing the energy-inefficiencies locked into this problematic building stock offers tremendous opportunity for curbing its impact on climate change. Paving the way through ultra-efficient retrofit strategies, HouseZero creates a blueprint for reducing energy demands and increasing cost savings for property owners.

As a prototype, HouseZero works to address one of the biggest energy problems in the world today— inefficient existing buildings. The U.S. building stock is responsible for around 40 percent of energy consumption, with housing nearly a quarter of that use. Property owners spend more than $230 billion annually heating, cooling and powering its 113.6 million homes. [AL9] Addressing the energy-inefficiencies locked into this problematic building stock offers tremendous opportunity for curbing its impact on climate change. Paving the way through ultra-efficient retrofit strategies, HouseZero creates a blueprint for reducing energy demands and increasing cost savings for property owners.

“零屋展示了如何通过优化现有技术来实现前所未有的建筑性能来解决这个问题，”Malkawi说。“零屋要求我们重新考虑建筑设计和运营的惯例，以提高居住者的终身效率和生活质量。”“零屋”的超效率在于尖端技术与已建立的、低技术的建筑设计解决方案的应用之间的交汇点。一个例子是自然通风，它由一个窗口驱动系统控制，该系统使用复杂的软件和传感器阵列自动打开和关闭窗户，以全年保持高质量的内部环境。建筑物本身将努力获得最佳的舒适；然而，一个窗口总是可以手动打开，以确保个人的舒适仍然牢牢地与人类的本能联系在一起。

“HouseZero demonstrates how to solve that problem by optimizing current technologies to achieve unprecedented building performance,” said Malkawi. “HouseZero challenged us to rethink the conventions of building design and operation to enhance lifelong efficiency and quality of life for occupants.” The ultra- efficiency of HouseZero lies at the intersection of cutting-edge technologies and applications of established, low-tech architectural design solutions. An example is natural ventilation, which is controlled by a window actuation system, which employs sophisticated software and sensors arrays to automatically open and close windows to maintain a quality internal environment throughout the year. The building itself will strive for best possible comfort; however a window can always be opened manually to ensure individual comfort still remains firmly tethered to human instinct.

“HouseZero demonstrates how to solve that problem by optimizing current technologies to achieve unprecedented building performance,” said Malkawi. “HouseZero challenged us to rethink the conventions of building design and operation to enhance lifelong efficiency and quality of life for occupants.” The ultra- efficiency of HouseZero lies at the intersection of cutting-edge technologies and applications of established, low-tech architectural design solutions. An example is natural ventilation, which is controlled by a window actuation system, which employs sophisticated software and sensors arrays to automatically open and close windows to maintain a quality internal environment throughout the year. The building itself will strive for best possible comfort; however a window can always be opened manually to ensure individual comfort still remains firmly tethered to human instinct.

“零屋”将被用来研究如何从根本上重新定义一个结构如何能够与其自然环境连接和响应，以促进效率和健康。“零屋”的建筑围护结构和材料不是以“密封盒”的形式接近建筑物，而是以更自然的方式与季节和外部环境相互作用。该建筑将不断调整自己-有时是每分钟-为居住者提供热舒适。

HouseZero will be used to research how to fundamentally redefine how a structure can connect with and respond to its natural environment to promote efficiency and health. Rather than approaching the building as a “sealed box,” the building envelope and materials of HouseZero were designed to interact with the seasons and the exterior environment in a more natural way. The building will adjust itself constantly— sometimes by the minute— to reach thermal comfort for its occupants.

HouseZero will be used to research how to fundamentally redefine how a structure can connect with and respond to its natural environment to promote efficiency and health. Rather than approaching the building as a “sealed box,” the building envelope and materials of HouseZero were designed to interact with the seasons and the exterior environment in a more natural way. The building will adjust itself constantly— sometimes by the minute— to reach thermal comfort for its occupants.

作为一个活生生的实验室，该中心的研究人员获得了鼓舞人心的环境，他们自己将能够控制和适应这些环境。随着时间的推移，CGBC的研究有可能通过广泛分享和实施House Zero的发现和数据驱动的建筑研究来大大减少建筑行业对环境的影响。

As a living lab, the Center’s researchers are afforded inspiring surroundings that they themselves will be able to control and adapt. With time, the CGBC’s research has the potential to greatly diminish the environmental impact of the building industry through widespread sharing and implementation of HouseZero’s findings and data-driven building research across new construction and future building renovations worldwide.

As a living lab, the Center’s researchers are afforded inspiring surroundings that they themselves will be able to control and adapt. With time, the CGBC’s research has the potential to greatly diminish the environmental impact of the building industry through widespread sharing and implementation of HouseZero’s findings and data-driven building research across new construction and future building renovations worldwide.