C&C House

Granada, Spain

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C&C House

Granada, Spain

Firm

Ariasrecalde Taller de Arquitectura

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2012

Photography by Fernando Alda

C&C are a young couple, living in rented accommodation and dreaming of owning their
own home .
The current economic situation and lack of credit support made their dream become
impossible because they can not afford to buy a home or a plot of land at the current
market prices.
Times of crisis = opportunity time. The parents of C have for years a second home which
they used in weekends and partially in the summer, built in a neighborhood on the
outskirts of Granada, fits the needs that C & C require for their home, offering them their
second house as a starting point.
C & C want a spacious house, lots of light, energy-efficiency and making the most of the
fabulous views that the plot has.

We propose a restructuring and expansion of the existing housing, renovating its facilities
and its enclosure and skin, completing a program that allows housing accommodate C &
C and the stays of C´s parents.
C outsources the chapters that require specialized intervention (demolition, structure and
facilities and collects a handful of friends to help them collaborate on weekends in
exchange for barbeques and good times .
C does not surrender and keeps asking for prices to get the best offers, renting
machinery and auxiliary equipment and gathering a group of friends to renew the house´s
skin.
The aim was to build a well insulated house to consume less energy, using high quality
energy materials on it and improving the isolation to reduce thermal looses.
- The glass windows are double glazed with argon chamber including more insulation
capacity air chamber .
- The carpenters are high quality aluminum with thermal break .
- Isolation of the facades is rock wool 80 mm thick and waterproof membrane .
Besides isolation exists an air chamber 2 cm under the outer layer of wood -cement
panel, which enhances the isolation of the facade.

Thanks to the continuity of the insulating enclosure avoids any kind of thermal bridges
between the junctions of brackets and beams to the outer shell. By increasing insulation
and avoid thermal bridges is achieved architecturally very well insulated with low thermal
transmittance of 0.31 W/m2 K.