Favara housing
Favara housing is located on the side of a mountain, on the western edge of a farm dedicated to the cultivation of avocado.
Located in the patch of greater height, with magnificent views of the sea, it emerges as residential owners need to live in the same workplace.
Being seated in a montain, it does not have the usual services of urban plots. For this fact and to the environmental commitment of the owners, the house stands as a self-sustaining element in the design and spatial concept are very much conditioned by the bioclimatic and the environment, and the final configurations arise as a result of total building adaptation to their environment and their autonomous status.
The house is intended as a continuation of the mountain, rising like a set of volumes of stone, with different heights according to use that house and how that catch the light and exterior views. The sum of volumes results in a plant in a "U" which aims to embrace the mountain and position the different rooms around the central void and sea views.
The house is accessed by the north, through an illuminated from above step and reach an open courtyard, which turns the distributor that gives access to the bedrooms and the master bedroom. Access to the interior is through a hole in one of the volumes of stone that contains the dining room and entrance hall door, and from that point you can enjoy spectacular sea views. Spaces living room, hall and kitchen have different heights depending on the need of each, and are connected to the south side with the outer porches and on the north side to the distributor that gives access to the rooms. The staggering that occurs in rooms are intended provide them as much light as possible.
Being faithful to the generator concept of green building and bioclimatic, the materialization of the spaces is made with load-bearing walls of masonry extracted the same patch. The plant cover is further integrating mountain home.
The materials used are committed to the environment materials, and intends to take all the chances of them, for example, as the structural walls having a considerable thickness (50 cm) to have a high thermal inertia.
Rainwater is collected and stored in a well that will serve the housing supply . Some sewage treatment ponds naturally lead to reuse water to irrigate the farm.
The heating is done through integrated radiators on the floor warming its circuits with a biomass boiler .
Electrical energy is produced by means of photovoltaic panels.
The pool is used as natural cooling , since in its depth there is a tube that runs , cooling the air in its path by contact between the tube and the water, giving access to the house that cold air, which regenerates the indoor air .
In short, the result is a bioclimatic house self-sufficient in direct relationship to their environment that blends with him through his disposal and realization , and aims to stand as an another element of the slope.