Building 2000, 1992 Volume 2 Office Buildings, Public Buildings, Hotels and Holiday Complexes

This is the second volume of BUILDING 2000, a pilot project of the Commission's R&D­ programme 'Solar Energy Applications to Buildings' with the purpose of encouraging the adoption of solar architecture in large buildings. In a first volume, a similar series of studies is presented for the building categories: SCHOOLS, LABORATORIES and UNIVERSITIES, and SPORTS AND EDUCATIONAL CENTRES. In this second volume the results of the design studies illustrating passive solar architecture in buildings in the European Community are presented in particular for the building categories: OFFICE BUILDINGS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS and HOTELS AND HOLIDAY COMPLEXES. There was an enthousiastic response from project teams responsible for the design of 32 large buildings with a total construction budget of more than 140 million ECU. The willingness to improve their building concepts by collaborating with R&D-experts was encouraging to the Commission's action in this field. These two books reflect the results of the exchange of information between the actual design practitioners and the European R&D-community. Within the BUILDING 2000 programme 'Science and Technology at the Service of Architecture' became reality. This was not only realised by the various support activities initiated by BUILD­ ING 2000, but also by the active exchange of ideas by architects and design team members with R&D-workers during the various workshops held within the BUILDING 2000 programme. I highly recommend architects and engineers interested in passive solar architecture and modem day lighting approaches to study these final products of the BUILDING 2000 programme.

Office Buildings.- O1 University Faculty Building, Seville, Spain.- O2 Head Office of Electricity Supply Company, Arnhem, NL.- O3 Senior Citizen’s Fiats, Dordrecht, NL.- O4 Centre for New Business, Reze, France.- O5 Innercity Studios and Offices, West Berlin, Germany.- Public Buildings.- P1 Magistrates Courthouse, Rotherham, UK.- P2 Community Centre for Cultural Activities, Le Vigen, France.- P3 Public Library, Newbury, UK.- P4 Community and Educational Centre, Steyerberg, Germany.- P5 Town Hall, Ilhavo, Portugal.- Hotels and Holiday Complexes.- H1 Tourist Complex, Agios Nicolas, Crete, Greece.- H2 Hotel and Conference and Service Centre, Barcelona, Spain.- H3 Tourist Hotel, Bethune, France.- H4 Holiday Apartments, Gournes, Crete, Greece.- H5 Tourist Complex, Chania, Crete, Greece.- H6 Tourist Complex, Drios, Paros, Greece.- in Design Support Activities and summaries of Design Support Reports.- 1. Report on consultancy for the university of Seville.- 2. Increasing daylighting of the court building Oranienstrasse 9 in Berlin.- 3. Study Centre, Macynlleth, Wales.- 4. Permaculture institute, Styerberg.- 5. Recommendation for plantation in projects P4, E4, E5.- 6. Thermal behavior of the building.- 7. Newbury central library, an example of a daylight design study.- 8. The lebensgarten community centre.- 9. Hellas holiday hotels.- 10. Daylighting and thermal report for Barcelona hotel.- 11. Energy Conservation Strategies and assessment of a tourist residence complex.