Eco House
(Bioclimatic, “smart” home at Heraklion)
The house is organized around an atrium, which is the central component of the building. The building has been designed with bioclimatic principles, in order to have maximum energy autonomy and with the necessary automations to be considered a “smart home”.
The orientation of the building was based on the maximum use of the sun in winter and protection from it in summer. On the atrium’s’ roof there is a skylight, from which a lot of light enters during the winter. The automatic shading system offers shading and natural ventilation during the summer, to avoid overheating the space. In the south, a two-storey glass volume (greenhouse) was located, for utilization of solar energy.
A solar-shading study suggested concrete awnings in front of the openings, in order to achieve their shading in summer as well as wooden pergolas in the open spaces and on the facade of the house.
Active energy systems also help reduce the energy footprint of the building. The house is considered a “smart” home, because a central management system has been designed for all home facilities in the basement. The house “takes initiatives”, such as regulating the internal temperature, lowering the awnings, turning off the light, etc., in order to fully and correctly meet the needs of each space in heating, ventilation, lighting, but also to save time and energy. The control can also be done remotely via mobile phone. With biological cleaning, finally, water is saved and reused for the watering of the garden.
Location:
Heraklion, Crete
Area:
200 sq.m.
Year:
2006-2010
Status:
Complete
Project Collaborators
Project Manager
Anagnostakis Giorgos, Galetakis Giorgos, Grigorakis Vaggelis
Site Supervision
Galetakis Giorgos
Lighting Design
Klonizakis Aris
Photography
© Erieta Attali
Eco House
Location:
Heraklion, Crete
Area:
200 sq.m.
Year:
2006-2010
Status:
Complete
(Bioclimatic, “smart” home at Heraklion)
The house is organized around an atrium, which is the central component of the building. The building has been designed with bioclimatic principles, in order to have maximum energy autonomy and with the necessary automations to be considered a “smart home”.
The orientation of the building was based on the maximum use of the sun in winter and protection from it in summer. On the atrium’s’ roof there is a skylight, from which a lot of light enters during the winter. The automatic shading system offers shading and natural ventilation during the summer, to avoid overheating the space. In the south, a two-storey glass volume (greenhouse) was located, for utilization of solar energy.
A solar-shading study suggested concrete awnings in front of the openings, in order to achieve their shading in summer as well as wooden pergolas in the open spaces and on the facade of the house.
Active energy systems also help reduce the energy footprint of the building. The house is considered a “smart” home, because a central management system has been designed for all home facilities in the basement. The house “takes initiatives”, such as regulating the internal temperature, lowering the awnings, turning off the light, etc., in order to fully and correctly meet the needs of each space in heating, ventilation, lighting, but also to save time and energy. The control can also be done remotely via mobile phone. With biological cleaning, finally, water is saved and reused for the watering of the garden.
Project Collaborators
Project Manager
Anagnostakis Giorgos, Galetakis Giorgos, Grigorakis Vaggelis
Site Supervision
Galetakis Giorgos
Lighting Design
Klonizakis Aris
Photography
© Erieta Attali