Fujy House

Fujy House in Madrid, Spain by Fujy Sustainable Architects

The following text and images are courtesy Fujy Sustainable Architects of Barcelona.



Fujy, directed by Italian architect Luca Lancini, is dedicated exclusively to sustainable architecture and applying an articulated vision of sustainability to the building industry. Besides the subject of planning energetically efficient buildings with low environmental impact, Fujy introduces one virtuous dynamic in the construction industry: choosing partners concerned in environmental sustainability. The project demands environmental certificates now available in order to improve the productive chain and lower the impact on nature. Moreover a powerful campaign of environmental awareness has been planned, in order to create environmental conscious customers, an indispensable condition for the building industry to move towards sustainable modalities.

Another important piece in Fujy's activities is the collaboration with Public Institutions, O.N.G. and Universities for the creation of policies of sustainability. The main target of the pilot plan of Fujy is to show an example of studied sustainable architecture. Fujy aims to demonstrate that all necessary technologies for the creation of sustainable cities are already available and that the difficulties of the sustainable conversion of architecture are mainly cultural and not technical. In the pilot plan the architects underlined the three guiding principles of the study:

Goodness: social and environmental awareness
Beauty: choice of contemporary languages that meet aesthetic and functional requirements
Benefit: the ability to create plans at competitive costs with low maintenance and operating costs

The plan is a family house situated in El Escorial, near Madrid; it synthesizes the studies carried out in recent years on sustainable architecture and makes an example of it. The plan aims to insert harmonically the structure into the land and adapt to the weather conditions answering with every facade the specific situation given by the orientation and the land conformation. The planning of external spaces aims to reduce the impermeabilization of the land by paving only the necessary paths with pine wooden plates. The building is constructed with a selection of materials carefully chosen for their own low-environmental impact qualities and for their specific thermal behavior. The structure is based on certified wood; the external closings are constructed with blocks of termic clay.

The design of the house respects bioclimatic rules and integrates passive systems, i.e. the creation of a facade more isolated on the north side and of a greenhouse on the south. Moreover a domotic system allows the building to adapt to external climate without demanding any excessive complex management, limiting wastes. Heating is integrated: the air gets warmed in the greenhouse, heating the house for passive way in a good part of the year. The disposition of the openings, which are also regulated by the domotic system, has been planned in order to guarantee crossed ventilation. The careful study of the natural lighting system allows a reduced necessity of artificial lighting system. Electricity saving is also obtained by the use of high efficiency lighting systems with passage sensors; all household-appliances are high energetic efficiency. The materials used for the inside are chosen in function of the envirormental impact avoiding toxic product; most of these contains a percentage of recycled material, like walls and cardboard plaster false ceilings, with recycled paper.

Beyond the envirormental themes, Fujy aims to the social aspect of sustainability. Therefore our architects target is the creation of the best comfort and accessibility for all kinds of customers.