My Solar Decathlon house

The assignment is to build a simple model of an house as if it were designed for the international competition Solar Decathlon. 

I start creating a simple mass of a cube with side lenght = 6m (it is the maximum height allowed by the competition rules). It is very important to work using reference planes. I will constrain the top of the building to the RP 'copertura' at +6m and I'll make another RP at +3m; I'll assign an intermediate floor to this plane.

Everyone knows that the cube is the most functional polyhedron to architecture with regard to the lower surface / volume ratio

(obviously the solid with this lower ratio is the sphere, which is very hard to handle especially concerning with the aggregation of multiple modules ). To prove what I just said, I'm going to compare the EUI (Energy Use Intensity) of  this cube, with a parallelepiped with the same volume, but different surface area, and oriented in two different way: W - E and N - S.

Before doing this comparison:

- I will assign the location, as has been assigned, in Circo Massimo in Rome and the nearest weather station, for the data acquisition for the energy              analysis. I will import the image of the project site too.

- I will enable the energy model and set the default percentage of glazed area (equal to the 40% of each vertical side of the mass)