The passive environmental values are taken care of specially, mainly the related
ones to the energy consumption. A compact piece sets out, with a low relation
between facade surface and constructed volume (better thermal
behavior).
The plan is organized inside a rectangle of 14x7m., assembling
the humid zones (facilities) and the access next to the East facade, opening
some windows that catch energy in the morning (when the construction is cold).
The West facade is something protected by existing vegetation, despite considers
a significant reduction of the windows to avoid energy gains in the evening. To
the north a small patio with vegetation generates an outer domestic scope
related to the dormitory. This patio, in addition to functions related to the
use of the house (to tend, to be, etc.), it allows to adapt the construction to
the topography partially, being buried by this North part.
The house is
conceived like a tube that focus the views. With an outer terrace covered that
it provides an optimal seasonal behavior (it allows to the passage of light in
winter causing a heating by radiation without ventilation, and contributes to
shade in summer, maintaining fresh the interior space). A simple structure for
the roof with no interior pillars allows a easy inner redistribution. This heavy
roofing will allow certain thermal inertia (the most exposed in summer noon), so
during the day it transmits to the interior the night-accumulated coolness, and
at night maintains the accumulated heat during the day. Systems of natural
ventilation crossed the north-south and this west also consider, to reduce the
temperature in summer.
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