chronicle of a small eco-village announced ... The project's history, starting with the latest news and ending with the oldest:
- end of November 2008: Visit to the architect , during a short trip to Digne-les-Bains , where his agency ... Objective: Validate the final architectural design & distribution plans, and discuss the ground plane for the provision of 4 houses on our land (which has a shape a bit quirky), and the approach to producing electricity PV ... we are left with options to reflect on these two points, and with the work for the landscaping on the first point
- Homecoming 2008: the project is refined versions of plans succeed and become clearer, CALEOL into action on the field of thermal design
- July 2008 : eureka, "Echo Arrambourg Hamlet" was named the winner for the Rhone-Alps of the call for projects 2008 PREBAT ... reward for our efforts since mid-2006: thank you the jury, thank you the Rhone-Alpes, ADEME thank you, thank you, Mr. Architect second
- May 2008: May 9, we lose our planning permission after failing to submit a draft to the building permit within one year ... at the same time, first drafts of a new project ... we present them at the end of the month to the Planning Commission of the Town Hall, the meeting gives us confidence for the rest
- April 2008 : tired by waiting 11 months without a conclusive result, convinced that "the time c ' is money ", we differ from our architect ... Grenoble, 2nd National Conference on Passive Building , we are of course again, we present "Echo Arrambourg Hamlet" at the Consumer Forum and happy correlation time, we meet our new architect
- March 2008: we decided to present "Hamlet Arrambourg Echo" to the call for joint projects PREBAT 2008 State - Regions - ADEME: it is a operation to identify, assist and promote exemplary operations building high performance energy, thus creating a ripple effect among potential French owners ... difficult and acrobatic mount such a file "despite the willingness' of the architect, who did not contribute to even remotely: CALEOL responded to this with no guarantee of future contracts, is at this point that our partner has won our esteem and confidence!
- February 2008: the architect presents his sketches to the Planning Commission of the City Council Talloires ... the hair of his guests stand over their heads: glup, doubt sets in, and production sketches doubles ... not discourage us, we develop a "Charter of the Echo-Arrambourg Hamlet": the idea is to create the foundation for a harmonious coexistence between people and friendly, with local residents and the environment
- December 2007: the owner is personally PHPP form, the software for thermal design of passive buildings created by the Passive House Institute in Darmstadt (Germany), Mecca of passive design
- Fall 2007: The first architectural sketches come after several months of waiting, and they will succeed through the winter ...
- October 2007: very busy month ... first in France, we are conducting a review of the Environmental Impact for our project: the regulations do not demand for industrial installations and sensitive techniques, likely to harm the environment and security ... we conduct two study trips to refine our knowledge: firstly, in Vorarlberg (Austria), the leading European region in passive construction, the other to Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), a European cities flagship eco-town planning ... and we work on our land a geobiologist to ensure future residents the best possible health conditions of life: egg, our feeling is confirmed, we have an excellent site
- May 2007: on the one hand The mayor of Talloires deliver us the planning permission for our operations on our land (great!) ... secondly, we sign a contract preliminary studies with architectural firm enough reputation of the Rhone-Alpes (also awesome!): normal to trust experienced professionals to conduct a pioneering operation
- April 2007: Grenoble, 1st National Conference on Passive Building, we are obviously, and it is the revelation: our houses are to be passive ... is an approach to building designer, not a legislative approach: the idea is to optimize the building design to completion, by cutting the causes of poor quality and non-performance ... passive construction, performance is a natural result, the best possible and most relevant, not a ukase "sovereign" ... by its nature and its own approach is a constructive solution optimum, and is available now, there are already thousands of buildings liabilities (PASSIVHAUS repository, born in Germany, European law) in Europe ... no doubt that our homes will be passive, in line with the European baseline PASSIVHAUS !
- January 2007: we're developing the program of the operation, we define what we expect of houses (size, functionality, architecture, etc.).'s Point of view of the future inhabitant, reserving professionals we next propose their technical approach to achieve ... This will be an eco-village landscape: we define the original concept "echo Hamlet Zen & rgy" (with an H echo because it is one of the challenges of eco-urbanism!) ... and the adventure begins, because in our beautiful country, it is quite another to undertake and promote a project "different"!
- December 2006: Since the trip to Los Angeles, we are informed on the principles & issues involved in building energy-efficient, experiences & methods, component suppliers, etc.. ... Just before Christmas, we meet PRIORITERRE , Space Energy Info Haute-Savoie: happy coincidence, the association is preparing to become an agent of MINERGIE for France ... our homes should be homes MINERGIE!
- October 2006: it is understood that our houses will be wood and build the DDLP , Cyril and Jean-Loup Bert make the Salon Maison Bois in Angers, they hear Samuel COURGEY conference about building energy performance, evoke MINERGIE (repository Swiss energy performance of buildings) and announced the creation of EFFINERGIE: it a discovery ... not only the houses of wood, but they are energy-efficient!
- Summer 2006: The field is large, the contact with the owner family is good and enterprising, we share the same philosophy, we do not want to waste space or make it a natural fortress privatized we want to develop the site while respecting the natural environment, we decided to share the land among several people ... there will be 4 houses!
- May 2006: Eureka, discovered the land of my dreams, on the plateau of Saint Germain on Talloires
An intense story, an adventure full of surprises and discoveries, a journey infinitely rewarding ... mountains of energy involved in this operation ...
Still, time is running out, file, file ... and we dream of a filing for a building permit quick, quick, quick ... because behind, we must also count the length of the investigation and the appeal period for third before starting work, where our goal is to open the site at the end of winter begins.
Yes, France did not really value the culture of the time, nor the optimization!
