Passive house (residential building)

With the design for his residential building in Bühl, Germany, architect Thomas Bechtold demonstrated a balanced mixture of skill, courage and self-discipline in finding the right ingredients for a sophisticated and timeless architecture, which also meets the even higher demands for energy efficiency in the future. For the long and narrow plot of land, he developed a puristic building structure that burrows into the sloping terrain according to its use. With its longitudinal axis oriented almost exactly to the south-west, the residential building offers optimal conditions for the passive house standard. With a heating requirement of only 14 kWH/(m2a), it was even slightly below this standard - a prerequisite for this was also careful detailed planning and consistent avoidance of thermal bridges with various Isokorb® variants from Schöck Bauteile GmbH in Baden-Baden.

In the passive house in Bühl, the thermal insulation elements from Schöck not only play their part in preserving the filigree architecture of the projecting canopies and balconies as an appropriate structural solutions. The Schöck Isokorb® XT type A also provides thermal separation at the parapet of the flat roof, enabling an economical, energy-efficient and at the same time aesthetically sophisticated solution for this detail. The XT type A is certified in the highest category by the Passive House Institute in Darmstadt. The motto here is to thermally separate the component instead of packing it thickly with insulating materials: this way, the parapet elements remain slim.