AYNI: Peruvian project finalist in the most important global competition for innovation and sustainable housing
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- For the first time a Peruvian project, which seeks to improve the unfavorable housing conditions in the country, is a finalist in the global competition: Solar Decathlon.
- 16 projects from 10 countries have advanced to the final stage and the winner will be announced in December 2015 in Cali, Colombia.
The Ayni project has made Peru a finalist in the world's most important competition for housing development and sustainable solutions: Solar Decathlon - which this year reached Latin America for the first time, is an international competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy that challenges university teams to design, build and operate innovative, sustainable and energy-efficient housing prototypes. The 16 projects that were chosen come from Germany, England, the United States, Spain, Panama, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru.
AYNI (mutual aid provided by people in the Quechua language) was born as an initiative of a group of professionals and students from different areas of the Quechua language. National University of Engineering (UNI) which sought to provide sustainable and smart solutions to substandard housing in Peru. “In the country, underprivileged populations have to deal with unfavorable conditions typical of precarious housing, the AYNI Project arises with the firm commitment to contribute to improve this situation through innovative and sustainable but at the same time accessible proposals. We are currently developing an efficient house, based on climate concepts, in which all the energy it consumes is generated, i.e. it does not need to consume energy from the grid because it has solar panels, it has a low carbon footprint and there are savings in water consumption, thanks to a rainwater harvesting system and the use of efficient faucets.”explains Eduardo Ramos, physical engineer and decathlete of the Ayni team.
AYNI was formed in October 2014, with 28 members and currently has 60 professionals from various areas who are between 21 and 32 years old. The team's goal is to involve the state, the university and society in the search for solutions to the housing problem, and thus improve the living conditions of thousands of Peruvian families. As a first step, AYNI has managed to be among the finalists in the Solar Decathlon and needs help for the construction, transfer and exhibition of its prototype in Cali. “The total budget amounts to 180 thousand dollars, of which the organization has delivered 80 thousand dollars, now we need the support of public and private institutions to cover the remaining 100 thousand dollars and successfully complete the project,” says Karol Apaclla, a member of the project and collaborator in Libélula.
Unlike other teams, the AYNI house is well cohesive, multidisciplinary and developed with the revaluation of Andean principles of community and reciprocity in mind. The house will be finished in a month and will be exhibited at the National Engineering University. On November 1, it will be transferred to Cali, where it will be evaluated by international jurors and exhibited to the public at the Villa Solar. The final results will be announced on December 15.
You can find more information about the Ayni project and the ways to collaborate in its web and on the official website of Facebook y Twitter.
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