A Grand Design: Casa Azahar
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We propose a tailor made home just for you: a home of architectural merit which matches your lifestyle.
Warm in winter, cool in summer, without burning money or fossil fuels. We do this through design and clever use of materials.
It’s smart and efficient.
What we do is efficient.
It’s efficient for our clients. We offer a one-stop-shop service resolving all problems in one fixed price contract.
It’s efficient when we build. We are faster, cleaner, safer, make fewer errors, are more precise than conventional designs. That’s because we build partly off site and assemble on site.
The building is efficient. It does what it does without spending money or burning fossil fuels. That’s neat.
World class homes look and feel fantastic inside and out. In addition to luxurious fittings and high quality floors the best house designs make the most of the views, sun, shade, fresh air, and light.
The high spec glass walls have an ultra smooth sliding system and make an air tight seal when closed. They are high performance both acoustically and thermally.
To make living and eating outdoors easy all year, we create micro-climates for different moments.
Some terraces are always in full sun, others in dappled shade and there are secluded corners with cooling water and lush plants.
Even when inside spectacular glass walls connect you visually with the view.
The architecture is a reflection of your lifestyle and the setting you have chosen.
In the library the atmosphere is made more intimate by a high quality wooden finish on the super insulated ceiling. It is also lit softly and indirectly.
In the summer, the upper window is designed to act as a thermal chimney conducting the heat upwards releasing it from the lower floor.
For supreme comfort all year round the house adapts itself easily to radiant underfloor heating and cooling.
The bedrooms are on the lower floor where they are more private and where temperatures are more stable. They are further protected by shutters.
We believe the real beauty of energy efficiency is that your home is incredibly comfortable.
We use passive and holistic design principles to almost completely eliminate heat losses and gains: warm in winter cool in summer and quite all year round.
You can see how the shading provides some shaded indoor / outside living spaces as well as preventing the sun overheating the building.
Note the slats that provide shade to the lower floor.
Note also the light well at the top of the wall which floods the interior with natural light.
You can see how the native species of plants, chosen for their flowers and aroma, completely change the immediate setting of the building.