Rolf Disch Solar Architecture
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| Solar architecture, Green project development | |
| Industry | Sustainable Development, Architecture |
| Founded | 1969 |
| Founder | Rolf Disch |
| Headquarters | Freiburg, Germany |
| Products | PlusEnergy buildings, Heliotrope |
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Rolf Disch Solar Architecture, creators of the Heliotrope as well as several other visionary green building projects, is based in the solar city Freiburg, Germany. Led by solar pioneer Rolf Disch, who has been building with the sun for more than 40 years, this architecture office's prolific portfolio also includes such successful projects as the Solar Settlement and the Sun Ship. As winners of the 2002 European Solar Prize and the 2003 Global Energy Award these projects demonstrate the power of solar architecture; harness the sun both passively and actively. Lying at the base of the Black Forest, in the sunniest city in Germany, Rolf Disch Solar Architecture offers a premium design that exceeds the highest ecological standards while creating profitable opportunities for their investors.
Led by Germany’s solar architecture pioneer Rolf Disch, this architecture firm has built with the sun as its foundation since 1969. Rolf Disch Solar Architecture has implemented the most up-to-date technology to design sustainable buildings from churches and schools, to homes and commercial developments. With the creation of the PlusEnergy concept, their design has focused more and more specifically on positive energy balanced buildings, which generate more power than the consume through extremely efficient energy use and photovoltaic panel use. In 1994 they created the Heliotrope, the first building worldwide to create more energy than it uses. With the application of this PlusEnergy concept, Rolf Disch Solar Architecture further developed the concept into homes that use acute energy efficieny and have roofs made entirely of photovoltaic panels. 59 of these PlusEnergy homes were built as the Solar Settlement between 2002 and 2004, later to be followed by the Sun Ship. The Sun Ship, finished in 2006, is a retail, commercial/office and residential building with 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2). that also produces more energy than it consumes. Also the first building of its kind worldwide, the Sun Ship was truly the most extensive example of sustainable and renewable energy building by Rolf Disch Solar Architecture.
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