Willa Nordic launches sustainable designhouse - Architect of the Year behind "Eco House"
Eco House is a completely new prefabricated house that combines sustainability with a high degree of design. This new type of house has been created for the design aware family who wants to live sustainably for a resonable prize. The villa is made in untreated wood and is constructed with numerous smart solutions without forgettig the tailored design.
- On the market for prefabricated houses there is no house like Eco House today. To me it feels right to work with Willa Nordic because they value good architecture and deliver houses of high quality for reasonable prizes, says Rahel Belatchew Lerdell, award-winning architect who designed the house for Willa Nordic.
The house, with the roof included, is entirely made up of untreated wood without paint containing chemicals and has thick isolation in the outer walls and roof to minimize energyloss. We have particualrily taken into account the smart garbage separation system that facilitates recycling every day, and worked with renewable materials and vegetation that cleans the air.
An outdoor room, in the form of a prolonged house body on one of the short ends, works as a green room with a pergola covered in vegetation. This vegetation created a lush room inbetween the interior and the outdoors. In pace with the vegetation climbing up the sides of the pergola the character of the house changes and is given a living face clothed with leaves mirroring the season. The outdoor room can also use the solar energy for the heating of the house.
- We believe it should be easy and economical to live sustainably. Eco House is to represent a sound lifestile and facilitate the everyday life of our clients, all the while maintaining a high quality and design. That it is the recognized architect Rahel Belatchew Lerdell who designed the house is very satisfying, says Anders Dahl, CEO for Willa Nordic.
Eco House has thought-threw planning that uses the surface efficiently. It is a one and a half floor villa with 3,5 meters from floor to eave. An open planning promotes togetherness while maintaining the possibility for seclusion. The heating comes from exhaust heat pump. A stove placed centrally can also contribute to the heating of the whole house. Thanks to Willa Nordic's own manufacturing process Eco House can be offered for the surmountable prize of 2,8 million SEK.
Rahel Belatchew Lerdell has been selected as one of the world 101 most exiting architects 2007 by the magazine Wallpaper. She was also selected by the magazine Residence as the Architect of the Year through the award Stora Formpriset 2006 (the Great DesignPrize). The cooperation with Willa Nordic means that she is responsible for the design and the drawings and Willa Nordic for the production.
Willa Nordic creates tailored quality houses with a high degree of design. This is made in a time and cost effective manner thanks to a unique construction process that Willa Nordic has developed. Since 1989 Willa Nordic has created over 2500 individual homes in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Holland and Iceland.
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