Eco-Friendly Semi-Detached Houses

CAVAA Architects have built two semi-detached houses for two sisters and their families, in the center of a town near Barcelona, Spain. The project was thought as a single body with volumetric differences between the two houses. In the center you can see a courtyard that works as a skylight and ventilation chimney.

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The program’s needs are very similar between the two sets. Both residences house a living room, a kitchen large enough to accommodate the dining, two rooms for children, a study or a games room, a bedroom suite and a garage. One of them also features a space soundproof to perform music. In addition, the interior has a connection with the location of outdoor spaces.

Eco Friendly Semi Detached Houses7
Eco Friendly Semi Detached Houses7
Eco Friendly Semi Detached Houses7

These lovely houses are also environmentally friendly. They obtain all the energy required for hot water and under-floor heating through biomass boilers and they have a deposit for the reuse of rainwater and create a system to recover grey water. What’s more they benefit from lattice, a typical Mediterranean construction element, which allows the visual opening to the outside and, at the same time, it controls the input of solar radiation.

Eco Friendly Semi Detached Houses7
Eco Friendly Semi Detached Houses7
Eco Friendly Semi Detached Houses7
Eco Friendly Semi Detached Houses7

These two semi-detached modern houses have everything you could possibly want. You get to spend quality time with your family and you live a healthy life in a healthy house. What more could you ask for?{found on archdaily}.