Liv-Lib is a residential complex that runs on solar energy, designed to address the population density issue in Ile-de-France, Paris, while also contributing to the development of a sustainable city.
Presented by the Parisian team at Solar Decathlon Europe 2014, the project aims to create a dense area of individual homes that provide owners with easy access to an ecological infrastructure that meets all their daily needs. This minimizes energy consumption and hopes to increase social responsibility.
Opening GalleryProject Liv-Lib consists of two elements: "axis" and "habitat capsules". The axis has solar-powered urban infrastructure centers containing the technological and ecological systems necessary for house operations, such as production, ventilation, electrical equipment, waste management, water systems, vertical circulation (stairs, elevators).
This multifunctional hub infrastructure would be public property, managed and financed by the city or developers.
Each hub has a series of ports capable of receiving a habitat capsule which is private property. These houses use translucent panels made from PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) to capture solar energy and direct it into the solar cells in the windows.
Although this type of photovoltaic panel has lower insulation performance than traditional windows, it allows homes to benefit from natural light and generate energy simultaneously. Liv-Lib homes are built from concrete, and the interior walls are covered with biofilm paint.
Habitat capsules can be of different sizes and have flexible plans that give more freedom to organize the internal space and adapt to the needs of tenants. Capsules can interconnect to create larger structures. Regardless of their configuration, the system keeps energy from photovoltaic panels at its center, shared.
