Un profesor inicide en la necesidad de aplicar las tecnologías de la ingeniería espacial a la arquitectura
A professor initiates on the need to apply space engineering technologies to architecture
César Martín Gómez is a member of a team at the University of Navarra conducting pioneering research on thermoelectric air conditioning in buildings.
César Martín Gómez, professor at School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, proposed the application of work methodologies and technologies from space, aeronautical and naval engineering to architecture,"in order to gain efficiency in facilities and optimize building space". The expert made these statements on the occasion of his lecture 'Applications of space technology to Architecture', organized within the Science, Technology and Innovation Weeks of the academic center.
As an example, he mentioned the good design of engine rooms in ships, created with a space not always equivalent in buildings, which facilitates their maintenance; and the case of airplanes, where air conditioning and electricity are installed with maximum use of space.
With respect to pure technologies, he mentioned the total water recycling systems that spacecraft have: "They manage to reuse all the water that is present, from astronauts' sweat to rats' urine. The purification is so complete that all the liquid can be used again. Architecture could learn a lot from this, because in buildings a lot of water is wasted that could be reused."
Global conception of buildings
In this connection, Professor César Martín Gómez made reference letter to a pioneering research that is developed in the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, on air conditioning with thermoelectricity in buildings. "Climate control with Peltier cells allows the regulation of tenths of Degree without the need for maintenance and has another advantage: it allows working with photovoltaic energy," he explained. "It is so new in architecture that it is not yet regulated by legislation."
Finally, he called for the creation of multidisciplinary teams of aeronautical engineers and architects in the design of constructions to minimize errors arising from the realization of different plans (electricity, air conditioning, space distribution ...), gain in efficiency and facilitate the maintenance of buildings. "This new method of work goes beyond installations and energy: it refers to the global conception of the building," he pointed out.