{"id":24111,"date":"2018-04-24T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kontrakting.boris-belica.sk\/this-is-how-we-built-passive-house-in-melcice\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:16:33","slug":"this-is-how-we-built-passive-house-in-melcice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kontrakting.sk\/en\/this-is-how-we-built-passive-house-in-melcice\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how we built – Passive House in Mel\u010dice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

D\u00e1\u0161a and Matej decided to fulfill their dream of a house with a large garden. It was to be built of natural materials, sunny, with an open layout, with the lowest possible energy requirements and minimal impact on the surrounding nature. It was supposed to be energy passive and over time also energy self-sufficient thanks to renewable energy sources. Land selection<\/strong>Choosing a plot of land was not an easy task for the couple. They chose the land for more than 6 years until they finally found their dream one in the summer of 2009. They were completely enchanted by the land, as it is lined with a stream on one side and a small forest on the other. Despite the fact that there is only an unpaved road leading to the land and there are no utility networks, they decided to buy it. They were ready to deal with the problems. <\/p>\n\n

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Before construction begins<\/strong>Investors were clearly interested in a self-sufficient house based on ecological principles. However, this was not at all easy to achieve in their case, given that on a plot of land on a north-facing slope, moreover partially shaded by trees, an ordinary house would not meet either their ideas or the requirements for a passive standard. The architects tackled this challenge, designing an atypical house for the couple, which suppressed the negatives of the plot and made the most of the available light and heat from sunlight even on the shortest winter days. Every angle of the wall, every placement and size of windows has its reason here. The main building material is wood<\/strong>. In addition to its natural nature, its advantage is mainly the speed of construction. They want to have partitions made of adobe bricks, plaster made of clay. They decided to use straw as thermal insulation. In the summer of 2011, they met with nice people from the company Kontrakting<\/a><\/strong> – the director Ing. Igor Mi\u010dunda and the designer Ing. Juraj Pe\u010denansk\u00fd, who were as enthusiastic about the unusual concept of the house as the young investors and were happy to start working together as suppliers of the wooden structure, roof and fa\u00e7ade.That same summer, the young couple contacted a local baler, from whom they needed about 1,000 bales of straw, ideally rye and with the highest possible density. <\/p>\n\n

Groundwork<\/strong>The house had to be built on steel footings due to the nearby stream and straw insulation, which should not come into contact with moisture. At the same time, the living rooms will get closer to the sun, away from the shade of the nearby forest. 23 massive foundation footings were built on the plot at the end of October 2011. On the posts, at a height of 0.75 m above the ground, there is a structure of an insulated floor slab \u2013 it consists of a system of prisms made of glued laminated wood, the free space is filled with thermal insulation made of blown cellulose and closed with OSB board on top, cement particle board on below. <\/p>\n\n