a contemporary farmhouse on the foot of the Pyrenees
Taller OR result in Vidrà, a Catalan village nestled on the foot of the Pyrenees, to design its Vivet Homes. The structure is created to combine modern design and diminished supplies with the spirit of its rural location. They take form as a pair of homes, the venture presents a contemporary interpretation of the standard farmhouse, or farmhouse, discovered all through the area. The design workforce notes that the customarily sun-drenched web site enjoys sweeping views of each the mountainous panorama and the picturesque village with its stone church and bell tower.
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Together with his Vivet Homes, the architects la Taller SAU works along with the wooden firm Vivet de Vidrà, which owns the location. “The principle aims of the venture are, on the one hand, to attain low environmental affect and excessive power effectivity”, explains the workforce: “however, to supply a top quality venture at a aggressive price and, lastly, to suggest an structure utterly built-in into the panorama.’
passive design of taller or
Taller SAU’s Vivet homes noticed using hole, impartial supplies that remember considerate design whereas guaranteeing a low environmental affect throughout building. Every construction thus takes form above a big concrete plinth to barter the sloping terrain. The complete venture is constructed with a plywood construction, inside finishes of three-layer fir panels, wooden fiber insulation and a ventilated facade of wood-cement composite panel.
To combine passive cooling methods, the variety of openings is diminished to solely these which are important, and strategically positioned to acquire good photo voltaic radiation. The workforce continues: “On this manner, the homes carry out extraordinarily properly as a result of there’s virtually no break within the warmth pipe, minimizing power consumption all through their lifetime.”
case vivet: a up to date abstraction of the agricultural web site
The design workforce additional contributes to venture effectivity through the use of a standardized, modular logic. The inside structure is knowledgeable by the construction’s modular panels, a technique that considerably reduces each materials waste and prices. The ground plan exhibits an ultra-efficient group, protecting as little area as attainable whereas sustaining high-quality areas.
Lastly, the fabric palette and architectural language reply on to the encircling panorama. Whereas the timbers, tiles and composite panels of the facade evoke the countryside and its look, the quantity itself is a contemporary abstraction of the big 19th-century farms of Vidrà.
wood-cement composite panels type the facade
hybridizing the previous and the brand new, the structure harmonizes with its location