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B. Sommer, U. Pont, G. Moncayo, M. Schuss, M. Sommer-Nawara:
"A review on the EVA project";
in: "Conference Proceedings - 2nd International Sustainable Energy Conference 2022", AEE INTEC (ed.); issued by: Aee Intec; ISEC 2nd International Sustainable Energy Conference 2022, Eigenverlag mit wissenschaftlichem Lektorat, 2022, 2 pages.

This contribution provides a review onto an exploratory project EVA. EVA stands for Evaluation of
Visionary Architectural Concepts. This project investigated toward the building performance of
visionary architectural concepts, as typically suggested by academic projects, idea competitions, and
architectural illustrations. Many of these works address energy or environmental aspects with nonconventional
approaches. Such approaches often lack a proof of concept in form of built examples. Due
to different reasons, the realizations of such project either never happens or is subjected to change of
the innovative aspects to approaches that are more conventional in later planning stages. The reasons
for that are regularly a lack of risk acceptance by the client, difficulties in converting scaled approaches
to full scale, or simply lack of knowledge about and trust into new technologies.
The authors believe that innovative architecture concepts might contribute to reducing the
environmental impact of the built environment, but require thorough consideration before realization
and extensive monitoring of the performance of built examples. In the EVA project two consecutive
research steps for the evaluation and realization of innovative architectural concepts have been
conducted: In a first effort, a large number of innovative architecture concepts as suggested by
architecture studios, designers, and academic efforts were collected, labeled and a database was
developed, in which the different ideas could be subjected to structured queries. The efforts connected
to this first step were thoroughly descried in Sommer et al. (2019).This contribution focuses on the
second step of the research efforts: The selection and realization of one innovative architectural concept.

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This contribution provides a review onto an exploratory project EVA. EVA stands for Evaluation of
Visionary Architectural Concepts. This project investigated toward the building performance of
visionary architectural concepts, as typically suggested by academic projects, idea competitions, and
architectural illustrations. Many of these works address energy or environmental aspects with nonconventional
approaches. Such approaches often lack a proof of concept in form of built examples. Due
to different reasons, the realizations of such project either never happens or is subjected to change of
the innovative aspects to approaches that are more conventional in later planning stages. The reasons
for that are regularly a lack of risk acceptance by the client, difficulties in converting scaled approaches
to full scale, or simply lack of knowledge about and trust into new technologies.
The authors believe that innovative architecture concepts might contribute to reducing the
environmental impact of the built environment, but require thorough consideration before realization
and extensive monitoring of the performance of built examples. In the EVA project two consecutive
research steps for the evaluation and realization of innovative architectural concepts have been
conducted: In a first effort, a large number of innovative architecture concepts as suggested by
architecture studios, designers, and academic efforts were collected, labeled and a database was
developed, in which the different ideas could be subjected to structured queries. The efforts connected
to this first step were thoroughly descried in Sommer et al. (2019).This contribution focuses on the
second step of the research efforts: The selection and realization of one innovative architectural concept.