TRANS-FAIRE went to the Solar Decathlon, just a stone’s throw from the Château de Versailles.

This is an international home design competition, open to the academic world. 20 homes competing for environmental autonomy in the areas of energy and resources.

Experiments involving the “city on top of the city” were the ones that caught our attention the most, with, for example, the green space integrated into the building in Taiwan, the rooftop house in Germany, or the collaborative habitat, (y)our+, imagined in Switzerland.

In the case of the latter project, we are working on the mutualization and mutability of part of the premises into intermediate or collective housing, so as to increase the density of functions and uses in a context of limited land.

An opportunity for TRANS-FAIRE to discuss with the designers the Swiss legislative context for cooperative housing, and the conditions for transferring the project to France, considering technical, legal, behavioral and insurance issues…

Solar Decathlon Europe
Versailles, June 28 to July 14, 2014
solardecathlon2014.fr