Solar Green House Pavilion for Life Synthesis, Spikersuppa, Oslo, Norway

Role: Bruce Edgar - Design Architect, and Urban Planner. (2010)

Company: Phoenix Planning Design AS. Oslo, Norway.

Project Description: Temporary Pavilion for Miljø (Green) Festival, Karl Jonas Gate, CBD Oslo, Norway. The pavilion was jointly designed by Bruce Michael Edgar, Geir Steigan and Bård Hans Sylling of Life Synthesis AS, to promote and demonstrate a revolutionary solar green house building system that uses a dynamic soap bubble technique for insulation. The pavilion was designed to be fun, attract the interest of passing people, but also demonstrate the technical concepts behind the building system.

SolaRoof is a propriety building system that uses liquid foam bubbles and liquid cooling between a double membrane to control temperature and humidity, and to collect solar energy stored in an active thermal mass. The technology has been developed over a period of about twenty years, with a number of prototypes being made in mainly in Canada but with one example in the USA. The process uses simple technology that controls soap liquids as required, to capture heat energy and optimises the solar heat load to create a controlled environment. The process can actively reduce the carbon footprint.