The U House situated in Ericeira, a global Surfing Reserve, was created for José Gregório three occasions national Surf champion and a common large wave driver, his wife and 2 kids. This 300 Square meter house occupies a large lot, encircled with a dense mesh of trees, on the top of the hill looking over Saint Lorenzo Bay. Our mutual curiosity about sustainability didn’t stop us from totally adopting modern design. The aim ended up being to avoid eco-friendly pronouncements, permitting to attain ascetics and exciting architecture solutions, rather than creating a building fully controlled by unnecessary eco-friendly technologies and basically aggregating recycleables.
The home design emerges in the inevitability of protection of prevailing winds. Its northern border wind dominant within the summer time and also the stormy south wind dominant during the cold months transporting the rain in the ocean. And so the central idea would be a design located in the reinterpretation of ancient’s Mediterranean patio houses, developing a patio located on a plateau accepted by two lengthy arms interconnected with a third body, never disregarding the fabulous sights towards the west even just in interior spaces. Abundant double glazed earns sun light while a higher performance envelope controls temps. Eco-friendly Interior finishes and artwork produced from recycled materials occur in prominent places in the home.
The various sustainable features includes: cork includes a primary isolation material, passive design (natural cooling and heating), floor and water heating by solar power panels based on biomass heating, microclimate atmosphere produced through the patio and also the pool (pool water without chemical treatment) and rainwater cropping (collected inside a pre-existing well) for irrigation proposes.
The house’s success in harmonizing design, functionality and sustainability is augmented by its livability, extreme comfort and considerable savings in use of water and. Its humble size and careful design are proof of the success balance of architecture having a prescriptive performance design.
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