EP2099988A1

EP2099988A1 - Method and technique to establish a climate zone with limited volume in connection to flats

Info

Publication number: EP2099988A1
Application number: EP07852096A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Bengt Göran CARLSSON; Göran MELLBERG
Original assignee: Bovieran AB
Current assignee: BOVIERAN AB
Priority date: 2006-12-07
Filing date: 2007-12-07
Publication date: 2009-09-16
Anticipated expiration: 2027-12-07
Also published as: PL2099988T3; DK2099988T3; EP2099988B1; EP2099988A4; NO20092441L; ES2392110T3; PT2099988E; WO2008069732A1

Abstract

A method to create a volume restricted climate zone in connection to flats admitting a stimulating and developing life in flats in at least two different house bodies, wherein a roof and side wall(s) are arranged between the house bodies to create said climate zone. The invention is characterized in that the ventilation and the regulation of the temperature in said climate zone are arranged to take place with the venti lation and the temperature control in the accompanying flats in such a way that heating, cooling and air exchange of the flats, to a biggest possible ex tend involve said climate zone, and that the carbon dioxide enriched out com ing air from the flats passes said climate zone, and that oxygen enriched air from said climate zone to a biggest possible extend is used as incoming air to the flats.

Description

Method and technique to establish a climate zone with limited volume in connection to flats

The present invention relates to a method and technique to obtain a volume restricted climate zone in connection to flats allowing a stimulating a developing living.

More precisely the invention relates to a method and a technique where said climate zone is integrated with at least two house bodies containing flats exposed to and actively cooperating with said climate zone. In the invention there is also a method for ventilation whereby the exchange of air in the flats takes place through said climate zone as much as possible, and wherein the volume relation between the climate zone and the flats is within certain intervals.

A place for living must be a secure place for recreation and relations where the human being shall feel completely free and undisturbed. During a phase in life this place shall also form the base for family foundation and a platform from which the youngest generations can train and develop their social abilities. When the home and the living place have fulfilled its tasks in this connection the youngsters leave the safe home and their parents to form their own living in their own family constellations. The parents will stay, often in a spacious living, which in many cases strongly reminds of the time passed with life and activities and with many contacts outside the family. From having acted as individuals in a big scaled, multi faceted community, with strong personal and social net works based on the parent ship, their is, after that the children have moved, a whish and a need to be able to continue an own social development.

In that phase of life when the wish and expectation of bringing in new life, possibly as the important role as grand parents, there are outmost possibilities for a continued personal development and for constructive changes on the social human level. Not to get stuck in the passed and in stiffed social net works, the possibilities for this development and changes can actually be obtained by choosing a new way of living together with others.

Thus the main object with this invention is to found the physical prerequisite for the possibilities for human development mentioned above and to form new social contacts and net works. This physical prerequisite is offered by the Bovi- eran^® way of living, i.e. a form of living together with a limited number of people in an environment both admitting and stimulating development of new social net works, but above all also stimulate to an inner development and an establishment of a constructive closure over the life up till now. This process to be and stay comfortable with one self during changes in life often releases social talents and abilities. Then it is a decisive advantage to be in a context and among people where friendship can grow and develop. In said changing phases especially new friendly relations will make it easier to tell about situations and happenings in life which otherwise not should have been natural and possible.

To increase the conditions for a successful change of the accommodation it is preferred to make a sort of biography of the life cycles having passed. This biography can be an advantage in increasing the quality in a new way of living together with others. Thus the biography assists in a positive way in an acceptance for the happenings in life up till present time and constitutes a good platform for a continued positive development. Here it can be important to go back to very early memories as these can have a decisive importance how to develop and functioning in a more grown up age. From here it is possible to create order and accept an understanding for things happened.

In Bovieran^® all have their own living and their own flats, which all are in connection to a winter garden with a piece of real nature where living plants and running water will give rise to a highly evident feeling of sprouting life and development. Each Bovieran^® Concept has a proper balanced amount of inhabitants and can without doubt accept if a few of them choose to live more reserved. Thus one of the basic thoughts with Bovieran^® is that it will be mentally stimulating and general human strengthening to develop and maintain a rich social life. This is made easier by the social contact net within Bovieran^® which is restricted to involve maximum 100 persons, i.e. so many individuals that it, with a high certainty, will be possible to recognize and find some with which a relation can be developed into friendship.

The process to learn to know all persons in a Bovieran concept can be accelerated by arranging certain biography meetings where one or more of the members are presented to the rest of the inhabitants. In connection to choosing a Bovieran concept living it is thus possible to get help in establishing a biography from the life up to the choice of the Bovieran^® concept. Principally the biographies for all the inhabitants may be accessible on a home page on Internet, or through a link to which just the inhabitants themselves have access. A certain similarity in lay out and presentation of the biographies is preferred. Of course each living shall personally allow an access from others to their biography. In no circumstances this have to be discriminating for the personal integrity, but may, if the possibilities to connect new friendly relations hereby are increased, lead to the contrary, i.e. that the integrity is strengthened. Without this exposure of the former lives of the inhabitants, it may easily be so that a dominating and superficies and maybe hierarchic acquaintance will be dominating. This can complicate and make it harder in developing new social constellations. A biography being accessible as a memory improver both to the inhabitants themselves and to rela- tives, and maybe to staff in charge, can contribute to an essential increase in life quality a far way up in ages.

By Bovieran^® a personal living with the highest possible physical security and safety is obtained, i.e. a security and safety which can be further increased by the use of technical aid and supervision. A supervision does not have to intrude the integrity if it is directed towards personal habits and handling patterns. Of course the inhabitants themselves choose together with their families the grade of secure and safety supervision wanted, if any. Sensors in the flats registering the pattern of movements of the inhabitants may be arranged, if it is a wish from the inhabitants and/or from their families. Existing registered patterns of movement can be compared with former and stored normal patterns of movement and departure from these can give rise to different types of alerts. Thus it doesn't need to be supervision using cameras, but the patterns of movement being substantially changed during a period can be enough reasons for a closer look for the reasons. By choosing suitable sensors and storing of information from these it is possible to, after a calculation and evaluation of said stored information, notice a deterioration of memory, balance and/or sight.

The stimulating Bovieran^® -climate is more of a south European than Nordic and is established in a closed climate zone, to which all the flats have a direct connection, i.e. with a temperature well above the freezing point. The possibilities to move around in a tempered climate just outside the flat are stimulations both to body and spirit.

Normally this access to a tempered climate zone will make the living costs higher, which also a cooling of the flats during the summer will do. On one hand the energy for heating/cooling and on the other hand an efficient isolation will increase the costs for building the flats.

By DE-A-3 209 147 a house concept is previously known having four house bodies enclosing a winter garden. Here it is stated that the air and the climate from the winter garden shall be transferred to the adjacent flats.

In US-A-6 182 408 discloses a completely surrounded climate zone where each flat shall have its own outdoor place from which access to an adjacent flat is possible.

No one of these previous known constructions is well suited in performing the physical prerequisites making it possible to establish a developing life of the kind referred to above.

To establish the physical prerequisites for a developing life building technical solutions is necessary making sure that the necessary climate zone will work to- gether with the flats during low pressure weather, wind influences and temperatures below zero to high pressure weather, no wind exposure and +35⁰C in glazing broiling sun.

The necessary ventilation and exchange of air which is possible in a Bovieran concept will not just make it possible to close for or filter a bad or poll enrich outdoor air, but it is also possible to create a climate with e.g. a high content of oxygen , i.e. a climate with a therapeutic and stimulation influence on the inhabitants. The relatively big volume of the climate zone and the exposure to the sun radiation will create beneficial possibilities to use the sun energy in such a way that the whole Bovieran^®-concept can be made to work on a "low-energy" basis when the electricity support is failing. Thus sun cells can be integrated in the big roof surface covering the climate zone.

By arranging several miniature environments, as flowing water, water falls, arbours, walking routs it is perfectly to adapt a vegetative miniature world well suited for a growing and rich plant and animal world within the climate zone. It is also possible to arrange for artificial light similar to the sun light which will have a therapeutic influence on the inhabitants and form a nourishment for the plants. The temperature within the climate zone should not decrease +10⁰C in the winter and not exceed +25⁰C in the summer.

The objects stated above will be achieved by the methods and the technique in connection to the climate zone and the flats having the characterizing clauses mentioned in the claims.

As the ventilation air for the flats in each house body can be taken from the volume created by the climate zone, which preferably contains a lot of plants with trees and leafs the whole year round, the quality of the air transferred to each connected flat is increased.

To get an enough active effect in the creation of a preferred ventilation of the flats by using the covered volume of the climate zone this must be between 0,9 to 1,8 the total volume of all the flats. The best result will be obtained if the volume of the climate zone is in the interval of 1,0 to 1,5 of the total volume of all connected flats, preferably within the interval 1,3 to 1,4.

The type of land where a Bovieran^® concept shall be erected will decide what type of suitable house body to be used.

The type of land has also an influence when it comes to build with low energy consumption for the indoor climate control. If one part of the building body is integrated in the ground the heath from the ground can decrease the need of ex- temal heat. Thus, if this is combined with an active solar energy technique huge savings can be made without giving up a comfortable indoor climate both in the climate zone and in the flats.

A great advantage with the climate zone and its height, a minimum of about 10 m from ground level to the highest point, makes it possible to use a self draught in or in connection to the climate zone, which draught will transport incoming ventilating air through channels arranged under the ground level, i.e. a cooling of the incoming air is possible to temper the climate zone during hot summer days. At very high outdoor temperatures the roof of the climate zone can simply be opened and excess heat be ventilated away. The height of the climate zone makes it possible to arrange cylinder shaped heat exchangers for air/water to cool or heat the incoming air and the exchange heat from the outgoing air to the incoming air during colder weather seasons to lower the costs for heating. These heat exchangers can also be connected to under ground energy stores which preferably are arranged directly below the climate zone and the building bodies containing the flats. Preferably the heat exchange takes place using circulating brine, but also air channels in at least one portion of the ground based energy store can be a choice.

Preferably the incoming air can be transported over a proportionately big area in vertical channels in the house bodies. This is done to keep the flowing speed of the ventilating air reasonably low.

The invention shall now be described in connection to the accompanying drawings, where

Fig. 1 is a view from above of a Bovieran^® Concept comprising three house bodies,

Fig. 2A is an end view of the glazed wall of the climate zone of a Bovieran Concept,

Fig. 2B is a side view from outside of a Bovieran^® Concept,

Fig. 3 A - 3C is views from above of different flat stages at a Bovieran^® Concept,

Fig. 4a - 4c shows one example of the ventilation flows at a Bovieran^® Concept,

Fig. 5 is a view from above of a suggestion for disposition of the ground surface of the climate zone, and where Fig. 6 shows a standard disposition of the two and three room flats.

Thus from fig. 1 a view from above of a building concept comprising three house bodies, between which include a climate zone in accordance to the present invention.

The other borders of the climate zone are a light transparent roof and a light transparent wall.

Here the transparent roof is shown covering the space between the house bodies. Other solutions can be a roof also covering the house bodies completely especially if the roof is of a kind having channels through which a light and/or heat shielding fluid is obtained. Hereby the insulation of the house bodies can be made simpler and cheaper, at the same time as the air volume spaced in the climate zone is bigger and thus in a more effective way can be arranged in a dynamic ventilation flow for the flats of the house bodies.

One goal is to be able to balance the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen between the plants and the human beings, i.e. to choose the plants having an ability to rearrange its metabolism to take advantage of the different climate conditions existing within the climate zone.

The roof portion can be equipped with energy producing equipment working with extremely small differences in temperatures and which can give an essential energy input as soon as temperature differences of 10⁰C exist. Preferably this energy will be electricity which can be used to run the air circulation for the ventilation and climate regulation of the building complex.

In fig. 2A an end view of the glass wall of the climate zone in a Bovieran^® Concept is shown. This glass wall of the climate zone is often directed towards the north not to cause a too big sun exposure during the summer.

In fig. 2B a side view from outside a Bovieran^® Concept is shown, where the escape exits on the outside of the flats are shown as well as the openings between the house bodies being used for intake of a lot of fresh air with a proportionately low speed.

Fig. 3 A - 3 C show views from above of the different flat stages at a Bovieran^® Concept, disclosing the external gallery of each floor,

Fig. 4a - 4c discloses how the ventilation flows can perform at a Bovieran^® Concept. In these figures all the fresh air is disclosed at C and in fig. 4a the heat air is disclosed at H. The different seasons calls for different kind of ventilation flows to control temperature and fresh air input to the flats. By having the big climate zone and the ground based energy store, preferably crossed by brine pipes (see further below) there are also huge cost savings to be made regarding heating and ventilation.

Fig. 5 is a view from above of one example for disposition of the ground surface in the climate zone. Preferably the water shown here can be streaming and within temperatures making it difficult developing micro organisms. The water can also be given a certain self cleaning ability by having it flow through vortex creating water stairs. Hereby the basic need for a certain animal life to develop in ponds in connection to the streaming water is obtained.

Preferably the climate zone contains relatively big areas with rock or concrete which will be involved in the temperature regulation in such a way that said areas can be connected to at least one bigger ground mass with a high energy storing capacity, e.g. clay.

To keep a comfortable temperature in the restricted climate zone at different outdoor temperatures and at different sun exposures it is, according to the invention, suggested that a short term and/or long term storing of excess energy will take place in a ground body under and/or in connection to the building complex. This storing will preferably take place in a specially prepared ground body, which, with its big energy inertia also can be used as an equalizer of the temperature of the day, when needed. Energy storage at different levels is also possible when taking in account different geothermal dispositions to make access to accumulated ground heat/ground cooling to a reasonable cost.

Fig. 6 shows how a disposition of the two and three room flats can look like at a Bovieran^® concept. Of course it is possible to have other room dispositions both regarding the number of rooms and regarding the flat area. Thus a consistently possibility is to change and complete e.g. a bathroom to make it easier for a single occupant using a wheel chair.

The invention is not restricted to the examples shown above but modifications can be made within the scope of the following claims.

Claims

1. A method to create a volume restricted climate zone in connection to flats admitting a stimulating and developing life in flats in at least two different house bodies, wherein a roof and side wall(s) are arranged between the house bodies to create a climate zone , characterized in that the ventilation and the regulation of the temperature in said climate zone are arranged to take place with the ventilation and the temperature control in the accompanying flats in such a way that heating, cooling and air exchange of the flats, to a biggest possible extend, takes place involving said climate zone, and that the carbon dioxide enriched out coming air from the flats passes the climate zone, and that oxygen enriched air from the climate zone to a biggest possible extend is used as incoming air to the flats.

2. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that said climate control takes place between said climate zone and three separate house bodies arranged in a U-shape, preferably with an mutual distance, and where an air flow is facilitated by air flowing arrangements in the climate zone and in connection to said house bodies.

3. A method according to claim 1 or 2, whereby the ventilating air for the flats in each house body will be taken from the climate zone, characterized in that this volume of the climate zone volume is between 0,9 to 1,8 of the volume of all the flats in the surrounding house bodies, preferably between 1,0 to 1,3 of said volume.

4. A method according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the climate zone heated air is forced to rise upwards in at least one ventilation tower to create a sub pressure in the climate zone, which sub pressure is used to draw in cooled incoming air to the climate zone.

5. A method according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the ground body below the climate zone is used to regulate the temperature in at least the climate zone and preferably in the simplest way by circulating brine through a system of channels in said ground body and through heat exchangers in the climate zone.

6. A method according to claim 5, characterized in that heat pump technique is used to regulate the temperature, at least in the climate zone.

7. A climate zone restricted in volume and in connection to flats and to perform the method according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in at least two mutual spaced house bodies, in a roof covering the space between said house bodies and by a transparent or visible wall reaching between said roof, the outer edges of said house bodies and the ground.

8. A climate zone according to claim 7, characterized in that it is surrounded of three house bodies with three floor levels, and that heat exchangers are arranged both in the climate zone and below the ground level, and that a continuous circulation of a brine between said heat exchangers will assist in equalizing the temperatures, at least the temperatures of day and night.