''DreamHûs'', the house of the future
Affordable, comfortable, simple and sustainable living, that is the idea behind DreamHûs. This experiment is a collaboration between WoonFriesland, Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma, YES!Delft, The Green Village and De Bewonersraad Friesland. In spring 2019 three exact copies of Dutch houses with different energy performance will be built at this location. Researchers, students and entrepeneurs are challenged to come up with user-friendly, and above all affordable, solutions to make these houses sustainable.
The three houses reflect the Dutch housing stock. Solutions in the field of energy, healthy indoor climate, water, heating, insulation, ICT, IoT and Smart homes can be tested in this living lab before they will be applied in the houses of social housing company WoonFriesland and then the rest of The Netherlands. The parties will combine Frysian common sense and decisiveness with new technological insights. Other interested parties from industry, knowledge institutes, governments and the general public are invited to contribute.
Innovating is experimenting and validating where you try to translate your first ideas into tangible concepts
Accelerate innovation
Jaron Weishut, director of The Green Village "This initiative deals with one of the greatest challenges of our society and therefore is a perfect match with The Green Village. With WoonFriesland we can help resolve the issues that stand in the way of large-scale application of innovation. Whether they relate to technology, revenue models, human relationships or laws. On The Green Village we facilitate the doers with a strategic vision.
Experiment and validate
YES! Delft helps students and scientists with entrepreneurship and starting a business. ''Innovating is experimenting and validating where you try to translate your first ideas into tangible concepts as much as possible, "says Evert Jaap Lugt, Managing Director Yes! Delft. "The creation of the DreamHûs, which serves as a test environment for the entire sector, it is a major step forward. I am convinced that DreamHûs leads to innovative insights and the sector as a whole will help advance the field of simple and affordable sustainability. "