The architectural office of Thomas Mielczyńskiego Synergy created an original design and passive energy-saving homes, designed with silicates and cellular concrete. Enjoy special considerations blocks Silka calcium silicate.
From the available building materials market is just silicates formed a separate, special group. - Says architect Thomas Mielczyński - Immediately after the wood-based materials are one of the most eco-friendly materials when it comes to so-called value. energy embedded in the material. To produce the block SILKA need much less energy absorbed by the production process than the production of ceramic bricks, for example. Beyond this is a healthy SILKA material - block is formed directly from the soft rock, such as sand and limestone.
Energy-efficient house of the Silkie in Poznan
As examples of its implementation, Thomas Mielczyński shows two single-family houses. The first is on the Literary Estate in Poznan. The design of the dwelling house was built on the individual customer, who had clearly specified requirements: the house should accommodate required him to function on a small plot of land, for as low a surface wave. At the same should be modern and efficient - both in construction and in use. The answer to these needs is a storey building with minimalist expression. Designed on a rectangular, covered with a gable roof, the so-called standard. passive house. The achievement of the assumed energy class was not easy, including due to zoning requirements and a small plot of land. Imposed by the investor's idea to design assumed most of the features on the ground floor - in addition to typical day-zone areas of the building there are extra: larder, technical room, bedroom owner with a separate bathroom and dressing room. On the floor is space for three bedrooms, bathroom and studio owner.
Considerable disparity between the usable floor area and floor space and limitations arising from the location of the building was the starting point for defining the concept of spatial home. The main element of architecture that defines both the exterior and interior of the house is the rhythm of windows on the facade of the south-east. These light to indirectly - through the area of internal communication - living room, kitchen on the ground floor and bedrooms on the first floor. Thanks to this operation inside the building is best illuminated by the morning (kitchen, communication, sleeping on the floor) and afternoon (dining room, living room, bedrooms upstairs and lab). Southern spicy sun directly heats only the hot water collector, goes inside the building only if a soft diffused light.
A passive house is primarily external walls with excellent thermal insulating properties. Therefore, they were made from blocks SILKA thick and 24 cm thick Styrofoam insulation of 30 cm. Also the internal walls are made with Silkie - of the blocks with a thickness of 12 cm. When designing the houses are very important aspects of the utility of the proposed materials to the customer - explains architect Thomas Mielczyński. Here SILKA wins three characteristics. Firstly - thanks to a massive fine structure of the heat accumulates, and a good project can be skillfully use this feature. The second issue is the excellent sound attenuation properties. This is particularly important in the design of modern architecture, where we often have to deal with large open spaces. Not without significance is the ability of the room humidity control - for Silkie permeation of water vapor is large with high humidity, low humidity and low. - Complements Mielczyński.
The second object, which indicates the energy efficiency SILKA blocks are energy efficient house in Kurow near Szczecin. The project itself is breathtaking, from the first glance looked attracts green terrace, which is also a garage roof. Unusual is also the location of the building and the view from the windows of the emerging home: a beautiful landscape of the picturesque valley of the Oder. The distribution of rooms and windows, and the opening of virtually the entire ground floor can enjoy views of the Oder from many places in the house.
House with a usable area of nearly 200 m2 was originally designed as a passive house. During the design work has introduced significant changes to the investor for the project (additional windows on the north and north-east side), so for now, the building may not meet all the requirements of passivity, but certainly will remain low-energy house with very good thermal performance. By using the external walls YTONG blocks 24 cm thick graphite docieplonych Styrofoam 24 cm were obtained heat transfer coefficient below 0.10 W/m2K Uk. To perform load-bearing interior walls SILKA blocks were used because of the very good performance of heat accumulation and high vapor permeability.
Design energy-efficient house with blocks and YTONG SILKA
The blocks SILKA walls we build energy-efficient single layer - this is due to the physical properties of this building material. However, with additional thermal insulation of walls such as wool or blocks Insulating bricks, we can build a passive house. Energy saving has primarily SILKA excellent sound insulation. SILKA absorbs sound, even at the level of 53 [dB], so that you can perfectly isolate each room. SILKA a building material produced only from natural materials: sand, lime and water, making it healthy for the residents of the building. Huge importance is also somehow block execution, which allows the brick walls perfectly smooth on a thin seam, so, we gain significant savings on interior finishing work.