Air and Light House, VELUX Model Home 2020
- by SEBASTIEN PREVOT
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- 2014-02-27 14:18:49
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- Francia
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- 20986 / FR
New Construction
- Building Type : Isolated or semi-detached house
- Construction Year : 2011
- Delivery year : 2011
- Address 1 - street : 35 Chemin des Justices 91370 VERRIèRES LE BUISSON, France
- Climate zone : [Cfb] Marine Mild Winter, warm summer, no dry season.
- Net Floor Area : 188 m2
- Construction/refurbishment cost : 350 000 €
- Number of Dwelling : 1 Dwelling
- Cost/m2 : 1861.7 €/m2
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Primary energy need :
35 kWhep/m2.an
(Calculation method : RT 2012 )
1. Context
The Air & Light House is a European call for projects launched in 2009 by VELUX "ModelHome 2020", to experiement new ways of designing the habitat of the future, with the experimental construction of a detached house destined to reach a positive energy balance (Active House) and a neutral environmental impact, focusing on the comfort of its inhabitants.
2. Feedback
This experimentation and its organisation was rich in lessons, since the project was open to professionals for 6 months then inhabited for a year by a family. this generated a real feedback and allowed us to validate major Active House principles.
This experimentation will let us replicate the concept on individual or collective habitats for a sustainable comfort that saves energy and resources while stressing on a reasoned bioclimatic design and recycling fatal energies.
Sustainable development approach of the project owner
The Air & Light House VELUX ® Model Home 2020 was designed in a bioclimatic approach to produce more energy than it consumes. This is meant to implement a concept developed by VELUX ®: integrate the construction of a house into a holistic approach to consider all the design parameters of a contemporary home with a low environmental footprint, to offer a "whole package" combining quality and comfort of life.Architectural description
ModelHome 2020 by VELUX:- Timber frame (wood and zinc on facades)
- Solar and photovoltaic panels
- Heat pump, double flow ventilation, WINDOWS MASTER system (autmated management of heating, ventilation and solar protection nees) with inner comfort, CO2 and lighting monitoring.
- Weather station that anticipates external factors.
- Instrumentation, monitoring and supervision of consumptions for a year off and during the inhabited period.
- Specifific ModelHome 2020 requirements focusing on comfort of life (daylight, indoor air quality, summer comfort) and energy savings for a Positive Energy Building level, domestic uses included.
- HQE approach, especially followed on this project, inspired by the tertiary buildings requirements.
- BBC (Low Consumption Buildings in France) approach followed
Results:
- A positive energy building on regulatory needs (heating, hot water, lighting, ventilation and distribution), covered domestic consumption to 69%
Thermal comfort of the living room in class 1-2 (very efficient to efficient) according to EN 15251
- Observation on a hot day (36°C outside): the temperature inside the hosue is 8°C colder than outside.
Building users opinion
The feedback by the PASTOUR family:
"The different seasons are not felt in the house, the house is cool but still bathed in light"
"In summer, we are immersed in the light without feeling hot in the house. "
"The management of the temperature room by room allowed to adapt to individual needs, for example Rayan prefered the temperature of the room is 18°C to sleep well at night. "
If you had to do it again?
This experimentation and its organisation was rich in lessons, since the project was open to professionals for 6 months then inhabited for a year by a family. this generated a real feedback and allowed us to validate major Active House principles.
This experimentation will let us replicate the concept on individual or collective habitats for a sustainable comfort that saves energy and resources while stressing on a reasoned bioclimatic design and recycling fatal energies.
See more details about this project
http://www.maisonairetlumiere.frStakeholders
Construction Manager
CARDONNEL Ingénierie
PREVOT SEBASTIEN
http://www.cardonnel-cube.fr/cardonnel.fr/Contractor
VELUX France
Catherine Juillard
http://www.velux.frDesigner
NOMADE Architectes
http://www.nomade.info/accueilContracting method
Other methods
Energy consumption
- 35,00 kWhep/m2.an
- 60,00 kWhep/m2.an
Real final energy consumption
-8,00 kWhef/m2.an
Envelope performance
- 0,33 W.m-2.K-1
- 0,58
- 0,60
More information
Heating: 8.9 kWhef/m².year
Hot Water 2.8 kWhef/m².year
Lighting: 1.7 kWhef/m².year
Ventilation: 0.66 kWhef/m².year
PV Production: 22.8 kWhef/m².year
Systems
- Heat pump
- Low temperature floor heating
- Solar thermal
- Heat pump
- Solar Thermal
- No cooling system
- Natural ventilation
- Nocturnal ventilation
- Nocturnal Over ventilation
- Free-cooling
- Double flow heat exchanger
- Solar photovoltaic
- Solar Thermal
- Other, specify
- 100,00 %
Smart Building
Urban environment
- 630,00 m2
- 15,00 %
Product
Hybrid ventilation: alliance between natural ventilation by opening the windows and mechanical ventilation double flow
VELUX - ALDES - WINDOW MASTER
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Innovative system:Hybrid ventilation controlled by the rate of CO2, humidity and temperature: VMC Double Flux Activated winter (limitation of energy losses) and Natural Ventilation + VMC-Single Feed-season and summer ( synchronized opening vertical transom windows and roof to create a stack effect and nocturnal cooling).
Indoor Air quality
Comfort
Reasons for participating in the competition(s)
Nomade Achitectes developed a holistic approach with a "Concept Home" contemporary habitat with a low environmental footprint, combining quality and comfort of life.- A bioclimatic and contextualized design house, adapted to its environment, taking into account the orientation, the views and luminosity.
- A transposable concept: an adaptable shape for other urban configurations, based on 3 modular volumes.
- A fifth active facade: the roof becomes the "5th facade" by optimizing slopes as solar energy collect surfaces.
- A self-sufficient and responsible house designed to produce more energy than it consumes, with particular attention to the quality of the envelope and its permeability, the choice of materials (selected for their low environmental impact) the orientation of openings, natural ventilation and energy production systems (solar collectors and photovoltaïc cells integrated into the roof for hot water and electricity production, heat pump for heating and solar gains)
- A house opened on the sky: all rooms have plenty of natural light but controlled so as not to generate overheating in the summer.
- An airy and healthy home: the general volumes associated with the arrangements of facade openings creates a natural convection that aids natural ventilation.
- A house with variable geometry: this house can evolve in its inner envelope, especially with the transformation of the mezzanine into an additional room or by adding volumes
- A modern house: automated management of heating, ventilation and shutters, depending on the desired indoor climate and weather conditions.
Building candidate in the category

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