CLT structure in Alpedrete, Madrid. The house blends into the existing surroundings of the development, with large houses built on load-bearing walls of local granite. The plot covers 1,250 m².2, with two street-facing facades. The sides of the plot face northwest with adjoining plots. The layout of the main core of the house is adapted to the orientation of the site, based on a geometry with the longer sides perpendicular to the northwest-southeast axis. The east facade faces the existing pool, where the interior-exterior connection is established from the large double-height living-dining-kitchen area. The southwest facade features a main entrance, leading into the hall that distributes access to the different rooms: to the east, the aforementioned living-dining-kitchen area, and to the west: a laundry room (which includes the utilities), a toilet, a staircase, and two double bedrooms, one with a dressing room and both with en-suite bathrooms. The upper floor features a multipurpose area open to the double-height space and two double bedrooms with a shared bathroom. Large continuous eaves are designed on the sloping roofs, facing southwest and northeast, to create shaded areas in the hottest seasons. With an extreme climate in winter, the distribution of heating using underfloor heating as a low-temperature heat emitter (greater thermal comfort) results in very low consumption, thanks to being built as a passive house, due to the super insulation carried out throughout the envelope: under the foundation slab, the facades and the roof, whose fundamental base core is the exterior walls of cross-laminated timber. This system of CLT It allows to clearly reduce transmittances, avoiding thermal bridges and unwanted air infiltrations.
