Pilot Project
"Casa Venera" rural accommodation
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General characteristics
- Total surface area of the property: 22,076 m2
- Surface area of the plot under construction: 7533 m2
- Built surface: 120 m2
The building consists of one floor plus loft on the slope of the terrain.
Maximum height above slope at facade 475 cm.
Maximum height above slope at top 5.9 metres.
The uses are:
Ground floor: rural accommodation with capacity for ten persons
Loft: two multi-purpose rooms and laundry
Aspects that have been taken into account:
- Integration into the environment.
- Bioconstruction. Use of natural, healthy materials.
- Bioclimate. Self-sufficiency in energy and optimization of resources.
- Treatment and recovery of waste.
- Geobiology.
- The costs
Thermoclay loft (upper floor) with external insulation on the facade, fired clay partition walls covered with curved ceramic tiles and with a single layer of lime plaster, which has hygroscopic properties, is impermeable to water, fire resistant, and bactericidal, does not require painting and, throughout its long useful life, is very easy to maintain.
Concrete floor with clay laid on top. Wooden beams. Ceiling of rebate-jointed wood covered with layer of arlita (very lightweight expanded clay) Roof also of rebate-jointed wood, with cork-granule insulation and laminated lime waterproofing of onduline and recycled Arab tile. Interior walls have a clear single layer of hybrid mortar and are coated with lime. All doors and windows are double, one (wooden) interior door double-glazed with climalit-type glass, and another solid wood exterior (shutter) door. The windows on the northern facade are smaller in order to prevent temperature losses, while those on the southern facade are larger. Linseed oil with turpentine and beeswax is used for treating the wood.
The following measures have been adopted for air-conditioning the house:
- Eaves 50 cm deep to cut out the midday sun in summer.
- Hedge of trees and shrubs on the northwest, north and northeast sides.
- Pergolas and trained vines on all facades to protect against excessive heat and cold.
- Biomass boiler and radiators, backed up by a wood stove in the living room.
Clean electrical energy (220 V) is produced by photovoltaic panels. Running water will be provided from the cistern situated in the highest part of the property and, if necessary, from the drilled well with a pressure pump. Sewage water is treated for reuse to irrigate trees, shrubs and ornamental plants.
All electrical appliances are of class A, and the light bulbs are of low-consumption type.
All cisterns have a water-saving mechanism.
Geobiological measures:
The electrical installation, which is commonly placed from socket to socket at the head of the bed, has been installed in a U shape skirting the head of the bed in order to avoid the emanation of an electrical field.
Any kind of electrical etc. installation on the vertical line of the bed (above and below) has been avoided, in order to eliminate the effect of electrostatic charges and counter other subtle types of energy emanations flowing in a vertical direction.
No electrical appliances have been positioned near the head of the bed. The framework of the building has been earthed independently of the electrical circuit. Moquettes have been avoided, both on the floor and on the walls, in order to prevent the accumulation of electrostatic dust or micro-organisms.
The distribution of spaces:
- The kitchen to the east and the living room to the southeast and south.
- Bathrooms to the northeast and northwest
- Bedrooms to the south, southwest, north and northeast
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