US 2024/0384523 A1 · Building with heliodynamic architecture

Abstract

A building has outer envelope that has at least one facade portion which is transparent to solar radiation and that is situated on a face of the building, the shape of at least a part of which can be inscribed inside the surface generated by an imaginary segment extending between the sun and at least one fixed point that is fixed relative to the Earth. Facade portion(s) extend between a base line and a top edge which together delineate it from the remaining part of the outer envelope of the building, which is predominantly or completely opaque. The exterior face of each part of the facade portion is, at each point on the top line, set back from a straight line perpendicular to the local horizontal plane, and therefore normal to the plane of the ground, and passing through this point. At least one of the facade parts can be inscribed inside the surface of a cone frustum part that is recessed or concave relative to the face concerned.

Claims16

Dependent claims

1-11. (canceled)

A building comprising:

an outer envelope which has at least one facade portion which delimits an outside and an inside, said at least one façade portion being transparent to the solar radiation, substantially over its entire surface, and which is situated on a face of said building oriented on a south side when said building is located in the northern hemisphere and, conversely oriented on a north side of said building when the building is located in the southern hemisphere, the form of at least a part of said at least one facade portion being inscribed substantially within the conical surface generated by an imaginary segment extending between the Sun and a corresponding point which is fixed with respect to the Earth, upon a complete rotation of the Earth on itself,
said at least one facade portion extending between a baseline and a top line or edge which delimit it with respect to the remaining part of the outer envelope of the building, this remaining part being mostly or totally opaque,
wherein the outer face of said at least one part of said at least one facade portion or an entire facade facade is inscribed approximately within the surface of a part of a frustum, forming part of a conical surface generated by the imaginary segment, which is situated under a horizontal plane containing the associated corresponding fixed point and of which the imaginary top is said corresponding fixed point, which is situated above the top line or edge of the part of facade portion concerned, in that the outer face of each part of the facade portion is, at each point of the top line or edge, situated set back and inclined inward with respect to a straight line perpendicular to the local horizontal plane, in a straight line normally perpendicular to the plane of the ground, and passing through this point of the top line or edge, and in that at least one of the facade parts forming the facade portion is inscribed within the surface of an abovementioned frustum part which is recessed or concave with respect to the face of the building considered as seen from the outside.

The building as claimed in claim 1, wherein the facade of the face considered of said building is subdivided into at least two facade portions in the form of superposed bands which are, on the one hand, each formed by a succession of at least two facade parts having at least two recessed facade parts and/or at least two domed facade parts, horizontally mutually contiguous, and, on the other hand, separated from one another vertically by a horizontal plane, said horizontal plane containing the base line of the upper facade part and the top line or edge of the lower facade part.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/689,710Filed 8 Sep 2022

Priority

FR 21094319 Sep 2021

Published

21 Nov 2024

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

E04B 1/32
Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs: arched structures;…
E04B 2/88
Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls: curtain walls
F24S 20/61
Solar heat collectors integrated in fixed constructions, e.g. in buildings: passive solar heat collectors, e.g. operated without external energy…
E04B
General building constructions

Building with heliodynamic architecture

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Building with heliodynamic architecture

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Abstract

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