- Gemini house
The Gemini house is a prototype design for a house that uses
solar energy and efficient design.Roland Mösl created the concept in Autumn
1991 . The name expresses a design goal: that the real estate on which the house stands will be used simultaneously for two purposes. It should not be possible to built a better house on the same ground, and it should not be possible to built a better solar power plant either.In 1992 - 1993 Roland Mösl wrote a book, in German, about the project: "Aufstieg zum Solarzeitalter" (Advance to the solar age) and made efforts to find an investor. The plans were an expression of the most extreme solar architecture. A cylindric house would turn to follow the sun, and be equipped with up to 150m² of
photovoltaic panel s. Extreme thermal insulation, and heat recovery from waste air were also included.The project won a prize at the 1993 EUREKA world innovation fair in
Brussels . But it took several years more to create a prototype. In 2001 there was a national exhibition about energy inStyria ,Austria . Because of this, the Gemini project was able to gain the funds to build the prototype as the main attraction of this exhibition.The prototype was built in
Weiz , a small town north ofGraz inAustria . It was the firstenergy plus house (self-sufficient, and sometimes more) in Austria.External links
* [http://live.pege.org/1992 The project plans from1992]
* [http://live.pege.org/2001 The finished project on the Styria exhibition for energy]
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