# US 2019/0376277 A1 · Semi-mobile self-standing building superstructure with self-insulating electricity accumulating evacuated volume > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0376277 A1 - Document ID: US20190376277A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/487,463 - Filed: 2017-02-21 - Published: 2019-12-12 - Earliest claimed: 2017-02-21 - Inventors: Bruno CHAVANNE - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190376277A1 ## CPC - E04B 1/34384: {Assembling details for foldable, separable, collapsible or retractable structures} - E04B 1/35: Extraordinary methods of construction, e.g. lift-slab, jack-block (E04B1/34 takes precedence; falsework, shuttering for shaping walls, floors, ceilings or roofs in situ E04G11/04; conveying or assembling of building materials E04G21/00; working measures on existing buildings E04G23/00) - A01G 9/16: Dismountable or portable greenhouses {; Greenhouses with sliding roofs} - A01G 9/243: {Collecting solar energy (in general F24S)} - E04B 1/644: {Damp-proof courses (in combination with lintels E04C3/02)} - E04B 1/74: Heat, sound or noise insulation, absorption, or reflection (forms of, or arrangements in, rooms for influencing or directing sound E04B1/99); Other building methods affording favourable thermal or acoustical conditions, e.g. accumulating of heat within walls (fire protection E04B1/94; elements chiefly adapted for structural purposes E04C1/00 - E04C3/00; chiefly adapted for surface coverings E04F13/00; as underlayers for floor coverings E04F15/18; closures for wall or like openings E06B) - E04B 1/803: {with vacuum spaces included in the slab} - E04B 1/88: Insulating elements for both heat and sound - E04B 1/92: Protection against other undesired influences or dangers (buildings providing protection against external dangers E04H9/00; shielding against dangerous radiation G21F) - E04C 5/00: Reinforcing elements, e.g. for concrete; Auxiliary elements therefor ({methods or devices for making reinforcing materials B21D;} material composition {C04B,} C21, C22) - E04H 9/021: {Bearing, supporting or connecting constructions specially adapted for such buildings} - E04B 2001/742: {Use of special materials; Materials having special structures or shape} - E04B 2001/745: {Vegetal products, e.g. plant stems, barks} - E04B 2001/925: {Protection against harmful electro-magnetic or radio-active radiations, e.g. X-rays} - Y02A 30/244: using natural or recycled building materials, e.g. straw, wool, clay or used tires - E04B: GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS (border constructions of opening in walls, floors or ceilings E06B1/00; {electromagnetic shielding H05K9/0001}) - A01G: HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING (picking of fruits, vegetables, hops or the like A01D46/00; propagating unicellular algae C12N1/12) - E04C: STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS (for bridges E01D; specially designed for insulation or other protection E04B; elements used as building aids E04G; for mining E21; for tunnels E21D; structural elements with broader range of application than for building engineering F16, particularly F16S) - E04H: BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E02D) - Y02A: TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ## Abstract Self-standing, thermally-insulating, noise-insulating, seismically-insulating, water-insulating, electromagnetic-insulating superstructure, whose overall internal volume is filled with rigid and lightweight granules, in which the dwelling rooms are immersed. The lightweight granules are spherical, porous or hollow, they have no binder and are scattered. A gas-tight skin clads all the outer surface of the superstructure's shell and the walls of the dwelling quarters. Gas-tight bay-frames of conical outer shape are embedded in the openings and bays. The entire volume, made up of the scattered granules, the plates, the bay-frames and the gas-tight skin, is under gas-vacuum. This gas-vacuum is lifetime-controlled by a vacuum pump which is installed in situ. The outer casing and the inner walls are braced by the volume of granules stiffened by atmospheric pressure. A plurality of ion-polarized layers, vaporized on overlay metallized polymer vacuum sheets, are inserted between the rigid plates and the gasproof skin. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A self-standing building superstructure with self-insulating electricity-accumulating evacuated volume, the self-standing building superstructure consisting of an overall volume formed by a plurality of contiguous rigid plates forming an outer envelope which encompasses the entire building and of living or reception rooms, also constituted by a plurality of contiguous rigid plates forming one or more sub-volumes, wherein the overall internal volume of the superstructure is filled with substantially spherical, rigid lightweight granules scattered without any binder, in which at least one of the said sub-volume or dwelling rooms is immersed, in which the overall internal volume of granules is under a gas-vacuum, the gas-vacuum enabling the superstructure to stiffen and to become insulating; the each sub-volume is physically, phonetically and thermally isolated, independently of the other sub-volumes within the overall volume. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The self-standing building structure according to claim 1, wherein an outer casing of the superstructure and a plurality of walls of the living rooms are composed of rigid plates extruded or laminated or molded in a laminated or non-laminated material, of mineral and/or vegetable and/or petrochemical origin and the granules pressed by the outer casing and the plates facing said casing form a cocoon continuous shell. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 1, wherein the light weight granules are scattered, and fill the internal volume of the shell, the walls and the floors, without any binder to agglomerate them; and are either an expanded geopolymer, or expanded clay or foam glass, or hard, stiff fruit cores. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 2, wherein the rigid plates have their face internal to the shell, the load-bearing walls and the floors, lined with a plurality of ribs parallel to each other, in the form of corrugations or gear rack teeth, the direction of these ribs is orthogonal to the shear stresses exerted on the shell, the inner load-bearing walls and the floors and these ribs, embedded in the granules and whose volume is stiffened by the gas vacuum, allow wind-braced walls. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 4, wherein the outer casing of the shell is guyed from the inside by tie rods embedded in the granules and the walls of the dwelling rooms are chained from the inside of the shell, the inner load-bearing walls and the floors, by cables embedded in the granules. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 4, wherein in each opening made in the shell the inner load-bearing walls and the floors is embedded a gas-tight bay-frame or opening-frame whose external installation's housing shape is conical and the bay-frame is held in place by the gas-vacuum only, which is exerted on its embedded outer faces, without mechanical or chemical fixation. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 1, wherein a gas-tight skin clads all the external surfaces of the superstructure's outer casing and the walls of the dwelling or public rooms. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 1, wherein the volume of the shell, the inner load-bearing walls and the floors is subjected to a gas-vacuum of less than 1 hPa and this vacuum is controlled by a vacuum pump which is installed in situ permanently, a single gas suction port is necessary and sufficient for the entire superstructure and the gas-vacuum volume of the shell, the walls and the floors is delimited by the gas-tight skin and the embedded outer faces of the bay-frame or opening-frame. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The self-standing building superstructure according to the claim 8, wherein the vacuum pump is advantageously placed inside the superstructure and the superstructure is equipped with a detection and alarm system connected to the global computer network in order to prevent any excessive operation of said pump. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 7, wherein the gas-tight skin consists of paper sheets of grammage 250 to 600 gr/m2 sealed on their side plate side by a layer of Ethylene Copolymer/Vinyl Alcohol [EVOH] and hot absorption of the outer side with a medium or long chained chloroalkane, makes the paper both incombustible and non-degradable. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 1, wherein the gas-tight skin is removable and for this, each plate corresponds to an insulated sheet of shape and dimensions identical to the plate; these sheets are interconnected by their folded edges and raised at a V-shaped angle the openings in said sheets are connected to gas-tight bay-frames by their folded edges and raised at right angles; the closed V-angle curbs are intended for the salient angles formed between two sheets, the open V-shaped curbs are intended for the reentrant angles formed between two sheets; a thin elastomeric gas-tight layer is inserted between these adjacent edges; the perimeter of the borders and corresponds to the perimeter of the plates, the perimeter of the borders corresponds to the perimeter of the openings made in the sheets and to the perimeter of the opening made in the plates; the contiguous edges of the sheets which are edge-to-edge are pressed together by Ω-shaped profile spring clamps, the length of each spring clamp being substantially equal to the length on each side of the sheets and plates; the right-angled edges are contiguous with the outer faces of the bay-frame, they are pressed on the bay-frames' faces by clamping plates screwed at the top; a tripod staple clamps the three contiguous edges into the corners of the sub-volumes and the overall volume; the corners of the raised edges are gas-tight by molded parts glued, in each inner corner, to the borders and in each outer corner to the edges; the superstructure is anti-seismic and waterproof if it is placed on a bed of sand which absorbs all movements or shaking of the ground, its thickness is a function of the seismic hazard and its surface is 20°/o greater than the bearing surface of the superstructure on the ground. any accessory is attached to the gas-tight skin by single part forged bolt/self-tapping screws, a cup presses an O-ring on the skin between the bolt and the screw parts and the holes pierced in the skin are sealed due to the O-rings. ### Claim 12 (canceled) ### Claim 13 (canceled) ### Claim 14 (canceled) ### Claim 15 (depends on 7) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 7, wherein insertion between the gas-tight skin and the plates, of a superposition of metallized polymeric thin films, cladded with ion-polarized layers and layers or electrolytic separator sheets are interposed between the ion-polarized layers; the electrolytic separating and ion-polarization superposed layers constitute electro-chemical vacuum accumulator cells of gas storing an electrochemical charge and the electricity, when it is in very low DC safety voltage, is taken directly from the skin-accumulator behind the doubling partitions, without distribution by a distribution board or an electrical circuit; each connection is protected against overvoltages or short circuits; the plurality of metallized polymeric thin films enveloping the building, provides a barrier to external electromagnetic pollution and is advantageously used as a receiver antenna for these electromagnetic waves that will be concentrated in a shielded cable. ### Claim 16 (canceled) ### Claim 17 (canceled) ### Claim 18 (canceled) ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 15, wherein the superposition of thin metallized polymeric films with ionic layers and charged with electricity provides a radiation barrier comprising ionizing alpha and beta β isotopes 235 and 238 of uranium, isotopes 232 of thorium and isotopes 40 of potassium and the mineral granules contain particles of uranium, thorium and potassium. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 1, wherein the self-standing building structure comprises an open-air interior garden in the center and the roof is in its center just like floor base, which is also open to match the opening of the roof, both openings are of substantially equal shape and size and the superstructure is covered by cladding panels, photovoltaic panels and/or solar panels, roof and an interior slanting roof. ### Claim 21 (canceled) ### Claim 22 (canceled) ### Claim 23 (canceled) ### Claim 24 (depends on 20) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 20, wherein the three interior slanting roof sections of the building situated on the west side, north, east in the northern hemisphere, eastern sides, south, west in the southern hemisphere, sloping down to slope down to the said central opening, completely or partially composed of photovoltaic panels and/or solar panels. ### Claim 25 (depends on 20) The self-standing building superstructure according to claim 20, wherein the cover and the facade, almost vertical on the side of the central opening have been replaced by a roof, an interior slanting roof and cladding panels consisting of transparent glass panels that allow solar radiations to penetrate through the central opening or indoor garden and the said roof, cladding panels and slanting roofs are located on the south side in the Northern hemisphere and on the north side in the Southern hemisphere. ### Claim 26 (canceled)