On September 20, Play Arquitectura carried out a 4-day stay at the facilities of the ITER in Tenerife to deepen the knowledge of bioclimatic architecture and zero energy consumption urbanism. 

The ITER facilities are made up of a wind turbine park with an installed power of 8.33 MW, a 4 MW photovoltaic plant, a seawater desalination plant by reverse osmosis and an urbanization in which a total of 25 are located bioclimatic houses. The bioclimatic houses are the result of an international architecture competition called in March 1995 to which a total of 397 teams from all over the world participated. As a result of the competition, 25 completely different models of bioclimatic houses of high architectural quality emerged that solve in very diverse and imaginative ways the issues of using passive systems, the use of renewable energies and building with local, modular and recyclable materials. Overall, it is an exemplary public action to move towards a more sustainable world.

The Play Arquitectura team stayed in the Geoda house and experimented for 4 days with the different strategies of natural ventilation, solar protection, thermal inertia of heavy walls and thermal stability of the land in the semi-buried area of the bedrooms that the house offered. The results of the permanent monitoring of the house reflected a great interior thermal stability and very acceptable conditions of interior comfort.