Preliminary assessment of the building design of a new test house in Nuuk, Greenland

• Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series
• Main Authors: Møller, E. B., Lading, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Greenland; Nuuk
• Online Access: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/6ce39fe5-e6e9-423c-af3c-805418e0b795; https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2069/1/012228; https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/266761475/M_ller_2021_J._Phys._Conf._Ser._2069_012228.pdf

DTU has established a single-family three-level test house in Nuuk, Greenland. The main idea of the house was to have a relatively small heated area but a split building envelope, where a ventilated space behind the rain screen in some areas could be used as a sunroom. This paper describes the process of transforming the architectural ideas to a test building. Main issues have been how to design the rain screen and how to ventilate the space behind the rain screen.