Future Living: Medicon Village in feasibility study on housing
When Medicon Village planned to build new apartments at Helgonagården next to its area in Lund, the ambition was to build sustainable apartments for the future. Before the start of the project, a project group made a preliminary study that they chose to call Future Living. There were then ideas that residents would be able to share travel, gadgets, storage and transportation, that heating would be done in a sustainable way and that the homes could have special lighting to make the residents feel good.
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At the start of the project, there were plans to build up to 180 new apartments at Helgonagården adjacent to Medcon village. The residential properties were supposed to be located east of Sparta. Since Medicon Village works for health and better living, it was natural to plan to build the apartments so that they are at the forefront of sustainability and new technologies. The ambition was for the homes to be both energy efficient and healthy to live in for future tenants.
Before the start of the construction, a project group made a preliminary study, which they chose to call Future Living. It has sought answers to questions about requirements for near-zero energy buildings, choice of building materials, optimal technology solutions and efficient heating.
Within the project group, many aspects of the housing of the future were highlighted.
In the field of digital technology, new solutions are constantly emerging to make people's everyday lives easier. Here, an opportunity was seen to be at the forefront of the new residential area. In the house, there could be digital structures that solve how to travel and transport things together. One can also imagine an app that talks about the fastest, greenest or cheapest way to get to a given location. As far as transport is concerned, it plans charging points for electric vehicles, an electric car pool and perhaps
also places for refueling biogas.
Setting up a passageway system in the house could make it easier to use household-related services, get goods delivered and get serviced apartment equipment. One way to reduce the impact on the environment could be for residents to share items that they do not always use, such as tools and various household appliances. The passage system can then help show where the borrowed things are.
To make everyday life easier for residents, there were ideas of shared storage — for example in freezers - as well as collective cooking and laundry. The houses are intended to create opportunities for increased social interaction and by having illuminated and safe outdoor environments, there will be more time and space for play, recreation and exercise. The project also wants to include more of both vegetation and green values, such as the possibility of own crops, greenhouses and roof gardens.
In lighting, there are many new ideas, both in terms of function and energy consumption, as well as about the quality of light temperatures. Today's artificial light can be replaced with an indoor light that is more similar to sunlight. Even in outdoor environments, it is important to think about the lighting so that it provides the highest possible quality, comfort and security.
The apartments could also be equipped with burglar alarms that ensure apartments are actually empty when they should be, and automatic connected fire alarms that can detect incidents even before a fire develops.
The project also wanted to find ways to optimize the energy system, so that you store energy when it is cheap and sell energy when it is expensive. An in-house renewable electricity generation such as photovoltaics or small-scale wind power on the building was an option. In order to become self-sufficient in electricity, it may be necessary to maximize the use of solar cells, both on roofs and walls, as well as a large local storage capacity. One can also conceive of a system that can shift energy use to times when electricity is available.
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Vida futuro
Partnerschappen: Medicon Village, Tyréns, Siemens, E.ON, Kraftringen, Lund University of Technology and Lund Municipality/Future by Lund.
Time period: Aug 2015-Feb 2016
What happened next? On the area, 188 apartments were built in the project Scheele walk. The apartments use E.ON's energy innovation Ectogrid, and Medicon Village is international display area for Ectogrid. The collaboration between E.ON and Medicon village was founded in the Future Living project.
Lund collaboration behind the realization of unique energy innovation
Read more about the Future Living project here:
• http://www.tyrens.se/sv/aktuellt/nyheter/hallbara-och-flexibla-hem-i-projektet-future-living/
