New construction for a detached single-family house with swimming pool built under the Passivhaus standard.

Camino Alto
Architects — José Ángel Rey, Irene Serrano & Teresa García
Photographs — Arquitectura Visual
Built area — 298 m²
Plot area — 1.074 m²
Year — Under construction
Location — Puente Genil, Cordoba, Spain

It is a 298 m2, single-family home. This house has been designed and is being built under the Passivhaus quality standard and with the goal of obtaining its certification.

The house is located on the highest level of a plot of 1074 m2 with a significant slope. Its orientation seeks for the best views and optimal natural lighting conditions for the interior. This position is also ideal for achieving maximum energy efficiency.

The house is divided into two floors. The upper floor – at street level – is designed as the main floor; it integrates the living-dining room and the kitchen into a single space, wide open space. These rooms overlook the main facade, oriented to the south with large windows and the best views, and are closely linked to an outdoor gallery, covered by a cantilever, that offers an exceptional panoramic view. The master bedroom with a dressing room and an en-suite bathroom, a guest toilet and an office are also located on this same floor.

The rest of the spaces are located on the lower floor: a multipurpose room, which has direct access to the garden through a porch located to the southwest, two secondary bedrooms and a bathroom. Two large corner windows, one on each floor, bring the garden into the interior space.

New construction for a detached single-family house with swimming pool built under the Passivhaus standard.

Camino Alto

This house has been designed and is being built under the Passivhaus quality standard.

This house has been designed and is being built under the Passivhaus quality standard.

The building was designed to be very compact so that the shape factor, i.e. the ratio between the interior volume and the enveloping surface, was optimal. During the design phase, the location and geometry of the plot favored the placement and orientation of the house. It will incorporate large openings to the south protected with an overhang to control solar incidence and thus limit excessive heating in summer, but also allow for thermal capture in winter. In addition, the house will have an air conditioning system through aerothermal heating with underfloor heating and a ventilation system with heat recovery that will guarantee air quality and thermal comfort in all areas of the house. All the junctions, and especially the perimeter of the openings, are sealed to guarantee airtightness, which will be certified by a Blower Door test (airtightness test).

The adopted construction system, cellular concrete block walls and thermo-insulated plates, favors energy design thanks to its insulating properties and the ease of the system to eliminate thermal bridges.

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