Anopheria designs and builds Passive House buildings that stay comfortable through summer and winter, bring filtered fresh air into every room and need very little heating or cooling.
ELEVATING BUILDING PERFORMANCEUP TO −90% HEATING & COOLING DEMANDPEB · PRODUCES > CONSUMESPASSIVE HOUSE CERTIFIEDMEASURED AFTER HANDOVER
SCROLL — BUILDING No. 1 BEGINS
WHAT PASSIVE HOUSE CHANGES
The comfort is immediate.The engineering is underneath.
A Passive House is designed so carefully that it needs very little heating or cooling, while a quiet ventilation system continuously brings filtered fresh air into the building.
01 / COMFORT
Steady through the seasons.
Less overheating in summer, less heat loss in winter.
02 / AIR
Filtered fresh air, all day.
Fresh air from the outside is constantly renewed even with the windows closed.
03 / ENERGY
Very little heating or cooling.
The building keeps the comfort you have already paid for.
THE RESULT → THE REASON
01 / THE PROBLEM — BUILT ONCE
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The problem.
BUILT ONCE
Most buildings arebuilt once.
Straight to site, using familiar details and optimistic assumptions. Comfort and energy use are rarely calculated together, and the finished building is seldom tested against what was promised.
In summer, ittraps the heat.
Weak insulation and exposed thermal bridges let the structure store heat and release it long after sunset. Cooling has to fight the building itself.
INSIDE 34 °C · AUGUST, 11PM — ILLUSTRATIVE SCENARIO
Its air quietlygoes stale.
Ventilation cannot rely on an open window. In an occupied room, CO₂ and humidity build up quickly. Noise, heat and dust limit how often a window can stay open.
“Sustainable.” “Green.” “Energy-efficient.” Labels are easy to print. The useful questions are harder: what was calculated, what was tested, and what will be measured after handover?
And you live insidethe result.
More than 80% of your life happens indoors. When a building overheats, wastes energy or traps stale air, you live with it every day — in insufferable temperatures, air high in CO₂ and unaffordable energy bills.
80%OF LIFE — SPENT INDOORS
~40%OF GLOBAL ENERGY — USED BY BUILDINGS
NONE OF THIS IS INEVITABLE
So we build it twice.
02 / THE MODEL — BUILDING No. 1
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The model.
BUILDING No. 1
First, wecalculate it.
Before the first wall exists, we calculate how the building should feel, how much energy it is going to need, how much it would cost and how it should be built. If the design does not perform on screen, it does not go to site.
COMFORTENERGYCOSTTIME
MODELLED BEFORE CONSTRUCTION — PHPP · BIM · LEAN
HEATING ≤ 15 kWh/m²·yr
AIRTIGHTNESS n₅₀ ≤ 0.6 h⁻¹
FRESH AIR CO₂ < 800 ppm
COMFORT — DESIGNED FOR EVERY SEASON
03 / THE MATTER — BUILDING No. 2
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The matter.
BUILDING No. 2
Then we build it again.For real.
On site, the calculated building becomes the reference. We oversee the details that decide comfort and energy use — airtightness, continuous insulation, window installation and mechanical ventilation — until the physical building matches the design.
01 / THE ENVELOPE
Summer heat stays outside. Winter warmth stays in.
A continuously insulated envelope slows heat entering in the summer and escaping in winter. A pressurisation test checks that air is not leaking through the finished building.
n₅₀ ≤ 0.6 h⁻¹ — VERIFIED AIRTIGHT
02 / THE AIR
Fresh filtered air, even with the windows closed.
A quiet mechanical ventilation with heat recovery system removes stale, humid air and continuously brings fresh filtered air into the building, while recovering most of the indoor warmth or coolness.
CO₂ < 800 ppm · HUMIDITY 40–60%
03 / THE ENERGY
A much smaller heating and cooling load.
Because the building holds comfort so well, the active system can be much smaller. In some homes, one compact heat pump or AC may be enough; we calculate that project by project. Add on-site renewables and the annual balance can move towards zero or beyond.
≤ 15 kWh/m²·YR HEATING DEMAND · PEB PATH WITH RENEWABLES
04 / THE AGREEMENT — TESTED, THEN CERTIFIED
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The agreement.
TESTED, THEN CERTIFIED
Then the twomust agree.
Critical details are inspected during construction. At completion, pressurisation testing, thermal imaging and ventilation commissioning check the physical result. Independent Passive House certification then verifies that the design and finished building meet the standard.
SCANNING — ENVELOPE · AIR · ENERGYTHE CALCULATION BECOMES THE RESULTBUILDAS MODELLED.MODEL = BUILD · CONFIRMED
05 / THE RECEIPT — THE PROMISE, IN WRITING
And for a year,we check.
The room you started in was 21°C because the building was designed to hold comfortable conditions with very little energy. Sensors log temperature, air and energy for twelve months after handover. The design made a promise; the finished building is measured against it.
MEASURED AGAINST ITS OWN MODEL
OUTSIDE AIRINSIDE — ANOPHERIA BUILDING
REPRESENTATIVE MONITORING PROFILE — LIVE PROJECT DATA REPLACES THIS AT LAUNCH
n₅₀ ≤0.6AIR CHANGES / HOUR — VERIFIED BY BLOWER-DOOR
06 / THE PROOF IN THE WORLD — THREE FINISHED, ONE MEASURED
Built to bemeasured.
Three of these are finished and certified. One of them has been measured in use against the figures published before the work began, and came in under them. That is the whole argument, and it is now a building rather than a promise.
Twenty engineers, architects and scientists — one team, accountable from the first model to the last sensor.
08 / ARCHBUILDER — SIX PHASES, ONE LOOP · WITH HPHI
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ArchBuilder.
ANOPHERIA’S METHOD — SIX PHASES, ONE LOOP · WITH HPHI
What was designed iswhat gets delivered.
ArchBuilder is our six-phase delivery system, developed with the Hellenic Passive House Institute. It connects the first energy model, construction decisions, quality checks and the sensors that verify the finished building.
Isn’t a high-performance building more expensive to build?
The cost depends on the design and the starting point, not on the standard itself. We model construction and calculate operating costs early, so the full picture is on the table before any decision. That way you can compare the additional investment with the energy and comfort benefits before committing.
Q.02
Does passive design actually work in a hot climate?
Yes, when it is designed for the climate. Shading limits summer sun, insulation slows heat entering the building and ventilation removes stale air without relying on open windows. The exact cooling system is calculated for each project.
Q.03
Do I still need heating or air conditioning?
Usually yes, but much less of it. The heating and cooling load can be small enough for a compact system. In some homes, one heat pump or AC may be enough; the answer depends on the size, layout, orientation and use of the building.
Q.04
What if I already have a plot, a design, or another architect?
We can join at different stages: new build, deep renovation or certification consulting on a project we do not construct. The first step is to assess the existing work against your comfort and energy goals.
Q.05
How do I know it performs once I move in?
Every building is monitored for twelve months after handover through sensors that measure temperature, air quality and energy consumption. Performance becomes measured data, not a promise, and any gap against the model is optimised.
11 / THE NEXT BUILDING — YOURS
FOUR OUTCOMES · ONE STANDARD
Elevating Building Comfort.Efficiency.Resilience.Performance.
Your building already exists — in the numbers. One conversation starts Building No. 1: we model it, agree the targets in writing, then go and build it twice.
