SOLAR HEAT PANEL

from recycled plastic by Montello & Ecopixel, designed by Jan Puylaert © 2022

ECOPIXELSOLAR HEAT.

Following the simple principle of a green house, direct air-heating through sunlight can heat up your house. This way SOLAR HEAT hopes to contribute to lower energy-consumption in future housing. Especially in wintertime when full sunlight is available but outside temperatures are freezing, SOLAR HEAT will supply free of charge, sustainable heating to your home.




The heated air inside the panels will be exchanged with the cooler air inside the livingspace, and the number of panels will define the efficiency of the system. This way SOLAR HEAT can be optimized to any situation and/or location. The modular character of the hexagonal modules make SOLAR HEAT an easy to adapt system that fits a diversity of wall space from small to large to even the largest of buildings.







Entrance & Exit modules feature the connecting pipe that connects the internal living space with the SOLAR HEAT system. Every Entrance/Exit module can connect up to 2 Heating modules.

Heating modules Heating modules merely pass on the air from one module to the sequent module. Inside the Heating modules the air will heat up. The number of modules basically decides the efficiency-level of the entire system, being modularly extendable to adapt to any requested situation.





Thanks to MONTELLO, the leading Italian post-consumer plastic waste recycler, the SOLAR HEAT enclosure is made of 100% Certified Post Consumer LDPE. At Montello, post consumer packaging waste is transformed into granules through a multi-step process : sorting, grinding, washing, flotation, densification and extrusion. The obtained certified MONTELLO LDPE is the basis of every SOLAR HEAT module, being it’s very raw material. Furthermore, the MONTELLO material assures full recyclability also after its life-cycle, making SOLAR HEAT a truly circular product.





Specialist in design products made from recycled plastics, ECOPIXEL transforms the MONTELLO raw materials into the SOLAR HEAT modules. ECOPIXEL has set new standards in technology & possibilities introducing the innovative pre-pressured method allowing 3D plastic productions with recycled plastics. Once the raw materials are selected a special mix is prepared to obtain the exact mixture. For SOLAR HEAT a specific mixture was studied in order to absorb as much sunlight as possible while at the same time assuring sufficient structural qualities. Given the high temperatures SOLAR HEAT is exposed to, the design requested precise detailing that allow up to 3% (!) material expansion. The modular character of the hexagonal modules make SOLAR HEAT an easy to adapt system that fits a diversity of wall space from small to large to even the largest of public buildings.