The Catamaran House arises from the collaboration of the Eneseis and Computational Design Affairs teams. For this, a self-sustaining home is projected in the port city of the Spanish Mediterranean coast of Alicante, capital of the province of the same name, in the Valencian Community.

This house is located facing the sea, making it one of the essential elements of the project, creating a program that is organized around the views and the solar radiation of the environment.
For the Catamaran House, Eneseis and Computational Design Affairs start with the intention of making it a house with a low ecological footprint, in this case, by using a laminated wood structure, integrating the passive systems of Mediterranean architecture, such as thermal inertia and solar control.

These plywood panels structure the house into stripes.

The most public program is concentrated in the central space, an open space that connects a landscaped patio with the living room and finally with the terrace that extends towards the sea, while the most private parts are on the sides.

The bedroom, living room and kitchen are in regular use and are wrapped by the accessory program that acts as an envelope that collaborates with the energy saving strategy.
 

Project description by Eneseis and Computational Design Affairs

The client's desire to inhabit the small scale in the daily experience, organizes the main program around the views and solar radiation. The rest of the extensive program, which remains in the background, protects and accommodates the client in their daily use. A spacious vertical communication system and landscaped courtyards will organize these uses.

On the other hand, the house is conceived from the opening of the central space to the sea. This space, on which everything gravitates, has the ability to open to the north, where there is a generous landscaped patio that refreshes it, and to the south is the terrace followed by the garden and the sea.

PASSIVE HOUSE.- In global terms, the objective is to create an eminently Mediterranean house, a house that actively takes advantage of the benefits of the climate in which it is located, maintaining the highest level of comfort and minimizing the ecological footprint of construction.

Structurally, the project uses a lightweight system of laminated solid wood screens that provide, in addition to hygroscopic insulation and comfort, low energy consumption and long-term flexibility.

For constructive purposes, the lenses also translate into lightweight, dry, reversible systems with materials with the smallest footprint possible. Without sacrificing comfort, it is intended that all systems are manufactured in the workshop, and are assembled with high precision. Particular attention is paid to acoustic comfort and airtightness, among other issues, where wet solutions are omitted as they are a solid and sealed continuum.

ECOLOGICAL HOUSE.- The project seeks to integrate project wills with bioclimatic strategies. Therefore, although the programmatic topology is defined in conjunction with the client, the final determination of the metric and the levels of permeability, transmittance and inertia are determined by the progressive refinement of thermodynamic analyzes. Passive strategies are based on controlling the heating of a certain inertia using simple systems to protect from the southern sun by blowing up the roof and looking for cross ventilation.

DESIGN HOUSE.- As a result of all this work of data analysis, construction processes and precision in detail, we made this design house, a modern house adapted to the needs of the client and responsible with the environment.

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Daniel Solbes, José Luis Durán, Enrique Soriano and / y Pep Tornabell.
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Green construction consulting.- Paus. Thermodynamic behavior modeling.- Arqbag.
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Builder
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Contractor.- Martínez Arce. Wooden structure.- Egoin.
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533 sqm
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2016
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Eneseis is an Architecture and Urbanism studio located in Alicante, Spain. It began its activity in 1998 with the first orders and awards in competitions. In a short time they were already carrying out all kinds of residential, public works, commercial, civil works or planning projects that, gradually, became more complex and important.

They have a team made up of the architects Daniel Solbes Ponsoda and José Luis Durán Arribas and the engineer Vicente Perez Pla.

Daniel Solbes Ponsoda is an architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia in 1998, with an exchange course with Ecole d'Architecture de Paris La Villete in 1994 and a course at School of Architecture Surveying and Building 1996.

José Luis Durán Arribas is architect from the University of Alicante in 2007 passing through Universität Berlin in 2000, while Vicente Perez Pla is a Technical Engineer of Public Works from the University of Alicante in 1992 and Civil Engineer from the University of Alicante in 2011.

They are defined by constant work and learning, with a discourse that arises from the explanation of an extensive and diverse work carried out with dedication and involvement. In their projects they analyze the environment, understood in a broad sense, and identify the opportunities that add value and the way in which the projects are able to incorporate them into their architectural proposals, eventually being those proposals recognized through awards or publications.
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CODA Computational Design Affairs. It is a research team within LiTA Laboratory of Innovation and Technology in Architecture of BarcelonaTech. They are based on lightweight structures, computational design and digital manufacturing.

CODA conducts research projects such as PhD programs in light and wood technology and efficiency., Focus on active flexion implementation, advanced COST Skins program, Active Flex IASS working group, Roland DG association. Implementation of research of digital manufacture in ETSAV and research, Direction and coordination of Parametric Master Architecture in BarcelonaTech. He has also carried out innovation projects: 2014 Barcelona. Pavilion Neula Gabarró, 2014 Barcelona. Pavilion Garnica. FAB10, 2014 Csorompuszta. Mochi. HelloWood, 2014 Cadaqués. Pavilion of Wedding, 2014 Barcelona. Bull. UsFestival, 2013 Czorompusta. BigO. HelloWood, 2013 Barcelona. Geodesic HyPar. Elisava, 2013 Barcelona. ChenGakstatter installation Barcelonatech, 2013 Madrid. Anticycloid structure. CEU SanPablo...They have given lectures, and lessons in Universities as in BarcelonaTech ETSAV and workshops.

CODA has received in 2014. 2 Honorable mentions in the AndreuWorld contest, 2014. Better teaching of the wood and better wood architecture of the Gremi of fusters of Barcelona, ​​2013 First prize. Slight tender of ILEK structures, 2012 Second prize. Eme3 Architecture Festival, 2008 Mention of honor. 2G.
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