Home+ is a startup that specializes in the design of unique tourist accommodation, manufactured 100% in Spain and with an industrialized system in timber that guarantees a minimal impact on the environment. We propose a new approach that uses the strength of industrialization and digitalization to develop a timber manufacturing system that allows us to produce accommodation in a more +sustainable, + personalized and +efficient production process.
National
Spain
Cadiz
Mainly rural
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
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First name: Carlos Last name: Orihuela Garcia Gender: Male Age: 29 Please attach a copy of your national ID/residence card:
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Home + is founded on the understanding that the way we are building our touristic developments have a high environmental impact, low personalisation and and a high level of inefficiency in terms of time and results. At the same time in almost all fields, other products are getting higher quality at a lower price, such as telephones, electric cars or furniture, unlike what is happening with housing.
Home + offers a new holistic approach, which uses the strength of modulation and technology to develop a system that can be adapted to people and their context. A modular timber building system, manufactured in local workshops, packed and quickly assembled on site creating a wide variety of homes. This ensures a more sustainable and CO2-reducing construction method and a circular approach to the management and life cycle of our buildings. Seeking to turn the negative impact of housing on the planet into a positive, temporary and self-sufficient model that boosts its relationship with nature and optimises its resources.
Home + seeks to apply this new approach to different scales of housing and contexts. The current situation of environmental destruction suffered by our spanish coastal areas due to overcrowded tourism and invasive construction strategies encourages us to locate our first prototypes here to address these problems. An ideal setting to promote modular and energy self-consumption, as Spain is one of the countries in Europe with the most hours of sunshine. Home + presents a housing model that respects the environment, with minimal impact on the environment and that aims to generate employment and income for the local population by manufacturing in local workshops.
Modular Homes
Sustainable Turism
Timber Building System
Personalization
Digitalization
The built environment accounts for up to 40% of global energy consumption and CO2 emissions, therefore our aim to reduce the energy consuption to minimum levels . In order to achieve this we will use passive strategies such: a high degree of compactness in the design, envelopes and roofs that can be adjusted to the climate and orientation, natural ventilation in all rooms, low emissivity glass with solar control, high solar reflectance roofing, and a system of energy efficient that meet the heating/cooling demand, using renewable energy so that the primary energy consumed is the same as that generated in situ.
Relying on an alternative, clean and highly efficient energy source in this area, photovoltaic solar energy. A developed and unlimited source of energy, which is used to generate electricity and is captured by solar panels that will be integrated on the rooftops.
To reduce the carbon emissions embodied in the materials, we will be using materials with a low embodied carbon for both structure and cladding, and through prefabrication we guarantee a minimum level of waste. Choosing timber as the structural material for our product, with great benefits such as its lightness, good thermal and acoustic performance, low energy requirements for its production, transport and installation, which leads to lower greenhouse gas emissions. will use CLT panels, which function as seamless pieces, with a high level of precision.In their factory production process everything is completely decided and predetermined. So, rather than builders, the people working on a CLT construction site are assemblers, who have to put together virtually perfect parts. The CLT behaves with the precision of a piece of furniture, working within 2 millimetre tolerances.
The pandemic has highlighted the precarious nature of current housing, which currently offers a generic response to very different conditions, with a lack of outdoor space, limited ventilation and natural lighting, low flexibility and adaptation to the user. Our model aims to offer a product that can be customised to each user and their needs, which can be personalized in four simple steps: your size, your crown, your skin and your interior.
Choose your size by selecting the number of room cells that best suits your needs, arranging them around the most public space in the home, which contains the living room and kitchen. This flexible central space can be adapted to a range of scenarios and configurations. It is understood as an extension of nature, which can be opened and closed depending on the climate and activity. All the typologies are born from the minimum living cell and can continue to be added or extracted depending on future needs.
Choose your skin, from a catalogue of materials that can be tailored to the climate and protect from heat and cold, reducing energy demand and the risk of pathologies in both winter and summer. Careful design will be ensured to guarantee the continuity of insulation at all points of the building envelope, so that there are no thermal bridges, in other words, no weak points through which energy can be lost. The carpentry will be of high performance, generally using triple glazing, with low emissive gases in their chambers, as well as insulating frames and profiles.
Choose your interior, as a final step of customisation, opting for a variety of quality interior finishes that share a minimum carbon footprint.
Home + seeks through the strength of modularity and technology to develop more efficient products. Guaranteeing a fixed price, a reduction in the waste of materials, a faster design and manufacturing process and more accurate deadlines. Understanding housing as a product that will register the problems that appear in them, helping to improve functionality and construction to achieve better housing at a more affordable price.
Construction has traditionally followed a linear economic model, raw materials are extracted, produced and then discarded, without taking into account the environmental footprint and its consequences. This type of economy prioritises economic profit, ignoring sustainability, as products are manufactured with the aim of being used and thrown away.
Home + is committed to a circular system based on producing with the lowest environmental impact as possible. In order to carry out this sustainable model, the circular economy is based on three axes: reduce, reuse and recycle. We reduce because the modulation is highly precise with a significant reduction in the waste of materials. Unlike traditional construction that has developed a static and linear housing system, we propose a circular approach to the management and life cycle of our buildings. Through a housing system that is scalable over time, which can evolve according to demand and needs. It can also be recycled or relocated to other locations thanks to its lightness and modularity.
Citizens can benefit from being able to enjoy unique tourist accommodation, locally manufactyred and with an industrialized system in timber that guarantees a minimal impact on the environment. Being able to enjoy some unique places while respecting the environment thanks to more sustainable and CO2-reducing construction method and a circular approach to the management and life cycle of our buildings. Seeking to turn the negative impact of turism on the planet into a positive, temporary and self-sufficient model that boosts its relationship with nature and optimises its resources.
After being shortlisted along with 5 other teams in Telefonica Open Future's Blue Economy Technology Incubator, we we have been able to count on the support of the mentors from different fields of entrepreneurship who have helped us to promote our concept. We are currently working with City Councils and clients interested in this new idea of tourist accommodation. Where we manufacture with their local workshops generating employment and income for the local population.
Home + offers a new holistic approach, which uses the strength of modulation and technology to develop a system that can be adapted to people and their context. A modular timber building system, manufactured in local workshops, packed and quickly assembled on site creating a wide variety of homes. This ensures a more sustainable and CO2-reducing construction method and a circular approach to the management and life cycle of our buildings. Seeking to turn the negative impact of housing on the planet into a positive, temporary and self-sufficient model that boosts its relationship with nature and optimises its resources.
Home + aims to provide an innovate solution that will address touristic accommodation challenges at once. Offering a new approach, which uses the strength of modulation and technology to develop a system that can be adapted to people and their context.. Therefore we are looking for a holistic solution on which to build the core driver of these houses:
+ Sustainable
In order to reduce energy consumption to minimum levels, we will use passive strategies such: a high degree of compactness in the design, envelopes and roofs that can be adjusted to the climate and orientation, natural ventilation in all rooms, low emissivity glass with solar control, high solar reflectance roofing. developed and unlimited source of energy, which is used to generate electricity and is captured by solar panels that will be integrated on the rooftops. Relying on an alternative, clean and highly efficient energy source in this area, photovoltaic solar energy. A developed and unlimited source of energy, which is used to generate electricity and is captured by solar panels that will be integrated on the rooftops.
+ Personalized
The pandemic has highlighted the housing crisis, which currently offers a generic response to very different conditions, with a lack of outdoor space, limited ventilation and natural lighting, low flexibility and adaptation to the user. Our model aims to offer a product that can be customised to each user and their needs, which can be personalized in four simple steps: your size, your crown, your skin and your interior.
+ Efficient
Home + seeks through the strength of modularity and technology to develop more economical products. Guaranteeing a fixed price, a reduction in the waste of materials, a faster design and manufacturing process and more accurate deadlines.
Home + seeks to apply this new approach to different scales of housing and contexts. The current situation of environmental destruction suffered by our spanish coastal areas due to overcrowded tourism and invasive construction strategies encourages us to locate our first prototypes here to address these problems. An ideal setting to promote modular and energy self-consumption, as Spain is one of the countries in Europe with the most hours of sunshine. Home + presents a housing model that respects the environment, with minimal impact on the environment and that aims to generate employment and income for the local population by manufacturing in local workshops.
Home + aims to provide an innovate solution that will address touristic accommodation challenges at once. Offering a new approach, which uses the strength of modulation and technology to develop a system that can be adapted to people and their context.. Therefore we are looking for a holistic solution on which to build the core driver of these houses:
+ Sustainable
In order to reduce energy consumption to minimum levels, we will use passive strategies such: a high degree of compactness in the design, envelopes and roofs that can be adjusted to the climate and orientation, natural ventilation in all rooms, low emissivity glass with solar control, high solar reflectance roofing. developed and unlimited source of energy, which is used to generate electricity and is captured by solar panels that will be integrated on the rooftops. Relying on an alternative, clean and highly efficient energy source in this area, photovoltaic solar energy. A developed and unlimited source of energy, which is used to generate electricity and is captured by solar panels that will be integrated on the rooftops.
+ Personalized
The pandemic has highlighted the housing crisis, which currently offers a generic response to very different conditions, with a lack of outdoor space, limited ventilation and natural lighting, low flexibility and adaptation to the user. Our model aims to offer a product that can be customised to each user and their needs, which can be personalized in four simple steps: your size, your crown, your skin and your interior.
+ Efficient
Home + seeks through the strength of modularity and technology to develop more economical products. Guaranteeing a fixed price, a reduction in the waste of materials, a faster design and manufacturing process and more accurate deadlines.
