page_title: Solar Settlement at Schlierberg
hierarchical_section_title: Solar Settlement at Schlierberg
caption_attribution_description: English: The Solar Settlement with the Sun Ship in the background: Freiburg, Germany
context_page_description: The Solar Settlement at Schlierberg is a 59-home PlusEnergy housing community in Freiburg, Germany. Solar architect Rolf Disch wanted to apply his PlusEnergy concept, created originally with his Heliotrope home, to mass residential production. This residential complex won such awards as House of the Year, Residential PV solar integration award, Germany's most beautiful housing community. It is the first housing community in the world in which all the homes produce a positive energy balance and which is emissions-free and CO
  2 neutral. The settlement also features an underground parking lot to keep the streets car free. Built between 2000 and 2005 in the Vauban quarter of Freiburg, the site has a photovoltaic generation potential of 445kWp. The Solar Settlement has proved Disch's vision of a “fundamental environmental imperative” as these homes have exhibited more than 8 years of full occupancy and each produced more than €4000 each year in solar energy profits.
  Disch believes the image his community exhibits is equally as important as the eco-savings it brings.
context_section_description: The Solar Settlement at Schlierberg (German: Solarsiedlung am Schlierberg) is a 59-home PlusEnergy housing community in Freiburg, Germany.  Solar architect Rolf Disch wanted to apply his PlusEnergy concept, created originally with his Heliotrope home, to mass residential production. This residential complex won such awards as House of the Year (2002), Residential PV solar integration award (2002), Germany's most beautiful housing community (2006).  It is the first housing community in the world in which all the homes produce a positive energy balance and which is emissions-free and CO
  2 neutral. The settlement also features an underground parking lot to keep the streets car free.  Built between 2000 and 2005 in the Vauban quarter of Freiburg, the site has a photovoltaic generation potential of 445kWp. The Solar Settlement has proved Disch's vision of a “fundamental environmental imperative” as these homes have exhibited more than 8 years of full occupancy and each produced more than €4000 each year in solar energy profits.
  Disch believes the image his community exhibits is equally as important as the eco-savings it brings.  Disch says 50 homes that eliminate energy bills and feed clean sustainable renewable energy into the city's grid is the imperative we need. They contribute towards the goal of sustainable ecological and economic development and show the entire world that communities like this are economical, beautiful, comfortable and in fact preferable.  The tenants at the Solar Settlement do not claim to have made any compromises in their living situations but rather that they have both environmentally and economically improved.  Made from Black Forest timber, the wood interior and natural lighting provide for happily lit spaces and a natural flow from room to room.
caption: The Solar Settlement with the Sun Ship in the background: two PlusEnergy projects in Freiburg.
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