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Twin houses in wood frame : very high energy performance - Maritime Alps (South of France)

Twin houses in wood frame

Key features :

  • Surface : 260m² GFA
  • Construction method : wood frameon crawlspace
  • Energy need : 40 Kwh./m²
  • Label target : Effinergie BBC (Low Energy Building)
  • Summer comfort : Pushed solar control and natural over-night ventilation and underfloor cooling
  • Heating Solution :Geothermal underfloor heating and cooling by a air/water heat pump
  • Ventilation : simple flow hygro-adjustable MC
  • Hot water : Solar (mutualization under consideration)
  • Other Features : green roof
  • Architect : Bernard FAUROUX (Valbone)

Progress :

Preliminary Final project
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Economy :
This project demonstrates that it is possible to drive high-performance projects on a modest budget (1300 € / m² GFA).

Simplicity :
The framework set by the client led to opt for a simple architecture, external as internal. The conception is focused on features and performance set by the client.

Performance :
The distribution privileges the feature of spaces and the follow-up of the rules of the bioclimatic approach. The choice of materials, insulation and orientation that favors the passive solar contributions allows for a very low heating energy requirement (being refined). A good level of summer comfort would be achieved by a pushed solar control (horizontal and vertical) and good nocturnal ventilation and an underfloor cooling system.

Scalability :
The conception of the solutions to be implemented was led to facilitate the future developments (this sentence is confusing). It is planned to feed the heat pump with a geothermal ladle and to be able to develop the ventilation towards mechanical ventilation or a ground-coupled heat exchanger to improve the summer comfort.

The architecture and implementation on the ground allow a natural extension of the volume easy to implement.


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