INTERSTATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: ATHENS SOLAR VILLAGE

The Athens Solar Village is a composite Development Program prepared at the initiative of an interstate agreement between Greece and Germany’s Ministries of Energy. The Program is a scientific experiment of sociological, town - planning, energy, technology, and economic nature. It concerns the creation of a model Organised Housing Settlement comprising of 435 apartments in 25 buildings (blocks of flats, social services and shopping centre).

Briefly, the specific Program includes the following actions and interventions:

• A multi-faceted and comprehensive Sociological Study on the rationalised development of a settlement to house about 1,500 residents, placing emphasis on securing the required conditions for a normal social life within the settlement and with the residents’ acceptance of the new energy systems of a pilot technological nature.
• A comprehensive proposal for Town-Planning relating to the extension of the town-planning study approved by the Pefki Municipality to include the project’s area of 100.000 m².
• A multi-faceted and comprehensive Energy Study to implement new, advanced energy saving systems by utilising Mild Forms of Energy, especially solar energy.
• A comprehensive Economic Study on the cost of the installations and the Program’ s activities.
• A full Building Study covering the total number of the project’s buildings.
• A comprehensive Transportation Study to examine the settlement’s connection to the region’s existing transportation network.
• A comprehensive Roadway Study, to focus also on infrastructure projects and redevelopment of the surrounding area.
• A comprehensive Study for the Establishment of a Databank containing the entirety of the Program’ s technical, economic, and sociological data.
• Construction of Settlement’s Buildings and other Infrastructure Installations, as well as installation of electric, mechanical and technological equipment.