Building Integrated Solar Technology – Evaluating 20 Years of Experience with Solar Buildings from an International Competition
Abstract
The „Architectural Award Building Integrated Solar Technology“ was established in the year 2000. The aim of this award is to make exemplary solutions at the interface between architecture and solar energy accessible to the greater public. Eight competitions have been organized since then, with some 40 prize-winners and nearly 600 submitted projects from all over the world. The competition entries show the huge potential of coherent integrated solar technology as a part of advanced architectural and energy building concepts. The intension of the work is to illustrate how the integration of solar technology (PV and solar thermal energy) into buildings has evolved within the last 20 years – by examples coming from the competitions.