SUSTAINABILITY
We believe in the future
| Tcherassi-Vilató Architects, since founded in 2007, has always looked for the best way to please its clients, from every single detail to the final project’s outcome. Humankind has always searched for the simplest, most efficient and profitable ways to achieve its objectives. This is why it’s only natural for us to create our designs having always in mind the incredible advantages and tools that Earth has to offer, in order to achieve the best Eco-Architecture designs possible. Sometimes due to technological advances people tend to forget natural systems benefits and disadvantages. However, as we try to perfection our systems and know how, we have understood that the most efficient path to follow is to blend all accessible means bearing in mind that they must still be available in the future.
Tcherassi-Vilató’s experience in projects has proven to us that it is not enough to just reduce energy consumption but the necessity of it as well, and this can only be achieved by an excellent comprehension of the project’s requirements and means. Additional to the experience gained through our designed projects, the Ouvroir counts with specialized employees in the different fields of sustainable architecture and urbanism, such as: - Active and Passive Technologies - Materials and Construction Processes - Regulations and Guidelines - Local Resources |
Nowadays a great deal of International Commissioned Projects ask and demand from companies several sustainability factors, it is to be expected that soon this tendency and awareness for Ecofriendly Architecture grows among clients, developers and that these requirements become each time more strict and severe. At TCHV architects these requirements have been applied rigorously for years now into all our projects, regardless from the project’s design, type or size.
Given the international character of our Ouvroir an important deal of the preliminary job done, before initiating the pre-design stage, is an extensive study of the site’s location and surroundings. Studying in detail the site local culture, with emphasis in the locals traditional architectural ways, it is what will give us the necessary guidelines and clues to acknowledging how the natives applied and used their natural systems to undergo and cope with climatic changes and problems. It is very important for us to combine new technologies and tendencies with our Ouvroir’s experience, as this is the only way to achieve the best project’s solutions possible, increasing by this Tcherassi-Vilató's value within each project. |
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Case Study: Project Alpha 
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| To achieve an environmentally sustainable, zero-carbon, mixed-use building project, and at the same time assuring an excellent air quality and building comfort worth of a luxurious development, we employed diverse design principles. These relevant considerations are listed below element by element. With the primary elements of sun, wind and water we considered many diverse factors and employed several as characteristic features integral to the project’s design. | Sustainable energy use is the key, with attention to minimise waste and furthermore maximise the amount of waste or by-products recycled (air, water, organic material, etc). Central to this initiative is Heating, Ventilation and Cooling (HVAC) System efficiency. We need to give attention to three crucial actions:
Insulate: The most important and cost effective element of an efficient HVAC system is a well insulated building. A more efficient building requires less heat generating, air conditioning or dissipating power, but may require more ventilation capacity to expel polluted indoor air. |
Recycle waste: Significant amounts of energy are flushed out of buildings in the water, air and compost streams. Off the shelf, on-site energy recycling technologies can effectively recapture energy from waste hot water and stale air and transfer that energy into incoming fresh cold water or fresh air.
Orientate: the orientation of the buildings and spaces on the site according to environmental criteria from sun, wind and view directions to neighbouring site uses, sources of noise or other pollution and transport connections. The orientation has major effects on a building's HVAC efficiency. |