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La hora solar no es la hora de la casa solar: es la hora de la ciudad lenta. Desde luego, casas solares como las reunidas en Madrid en el primer Decathlon Solar europeo son útiles plataformas de innovación, y fértiles terrenos para la competencia tecnológica entre las universidades del mundo, estimulando entre los jóvenes arquitectos e ingenieros el espíritu emprendedor y la afición al experimento científico, validado por el riguroso control de sus resultados.
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Solar time is not the time of the solar house: it is the time of the slow city. Indeed, solar houses as those gathered in Madrid for the first Solar Decathlon in Europe are useful platforms for innovation, and fertile grounds for technological competition among universities, stimulating among young architects and engineers the entrepreneurial spirit and the interest in scientific experiment, backed by the strict control of results. However, the fruits of this collective effort should not be used to marginally improve the energy behavior of the single-family houses in the sprawling city generated by the automobile, but to improve the already very efficient compact city, which can afford to be slow when its scale does not demand yielding to the insomniac flow of traffic. The solar house is not a laboratory for the house of the future, but a testing ground for cities without detached houses, and new experiences of urban sustainability all speak the language of density.
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