The advantages

An energy saving of 60 to 70 percent. Depending on the energy price, you can then calculate how much cheaper it is to live in wood. There is no better material than composite wood to heat hold on, a lot better then stone or concrete and even twice as good as glued timber.

The wood has a heat-regulating property and ensures that despite heat or cold outside, the indoor temperature in the House remains fairly constant. The consequence of these properties is that none of the the wall from the ideal house need to be isolated. Nevertheless, it is possible to achieve a U-value of only 0,2 W / m2K and a lambda value of 0,079 W / m2K.

What does this mean in practice? Let's assume an outside temperature of minus 10 and an inside temperature of 21 degrees. Without heating, it takes three times as long, namely a month, before the ideal wooden house is cool to zero degrees, in comparison with a house with stone walls of 38 centimeters plus 10 centimeters of styrofoam. The ideal house, compared to a traditional house with the same R-value, therefore only needs a third of the heating.

Residents of the ideal house live longer. Research shows that the cardiovascular system has to work less hard, which makes you live longer. The positive effects on heart rate have also been measured in schoolchildren in a similar wooden school room. What would be the influence on a person's mood, his well-being? In Japan and Austria, research has been done on the experiences of people in environments with and without Wood, in which the wooden environment was perceived more positively.

The wooden ideal house scores in terms of fire safety better than reinforced concrete. There is even already a fireproof door made of the wood and previously there were wooden ones chimneys. An important reason that this is possible is that Wood has a smaller density then have steel or concrete.

With wood you build CO₂- negative and also when it comes to nitrogen there are advantages. The wooden walls and roof sections are light and can also be assembled with light machines – and thus with little or no nitrogen emissions – on the construction site. There are even interesting developments in the field of the foundation. If it is made of wood, you do not need concrete and the Earth remains intact.

After just one day on the construction site, the assembled parts of the House are rain and windproof. Many days later, the structure of the House dismounted. ONabout one or two weeks later, the builders will leave and you will receive the key. Then you can do other construction or odd jobs in peace.

Is the house safe and secure? Mechanical earthquake tests done with the ideal house – light and flexible – threatened to fail because it did not collapse, while the moment of collapse indicates which certificate may be issued. After the walls were weakened, the building collapsed, and the construction received the highest achievable certification. Another example of the resilience of the ideal home comes from Austria. There, a wooden building was faced with a flood that had not occurred in a hundred years and lasted four months. Nevertheless, the building could soon be put back into use afterwards.

The wood is unprocessed and remains so because varnishes, paints or coatings are not necessary. The wood breathes and has optimal humidity, which also allows a fifty-year warranty on the absence of mold and condensation. Also, the wood is not static, so it attracts less dirt. This contributes to the indoor climate and is more specifically of interest to those who are sensitive or allergic to dust. Also, do not forget that before replacing wood with modern means, it was successfully used in conditions where hygiene was paramount, such as preparing food, processing dairy products. Certain types of wood would therefore do well in hospitals and other places where there is no place for bacteria to form and hygiene is a priority. See also the work of Annett Milling and author Michael Pollan on the different influences of wood, glass, plastic and steel on bacteria and germs.

Despite the fact that the wood of the ideal house is raw, there are options. Such as that the wooden walls outside and inside can be lined with stone, clay and other types of wood. And what about a beautiful blackened finish in traditional Japanese yakisugi style.

Electromagnetic radiation such as wifi does not penetrate the House. The construction technique has already been used to put down a non-eavesdropping building of a secret service.

The ideal house offers good protection against noise pollution. In fact, the most stringent standards are not only met, but well exceeded, up to twice as much – think of sound insulation up to 63 decibels. This not only promotes peace, but also acoustics. By the way, the officially quietest hotel in the world is made with the wood of the ideal house.

Scientific research that has been done on the subjective experience of living shows that living in a wooden house feels better than living in a regular house. One of the reasons is an almost imperceptible smell that the wood gives off to which the human body reacts very well. There are countries where people take a bag of wood chips to bed because it makes them sleep better. In Japan, for example, research is being done into what is called shinrin-yoku, the therapeutic effect on body and mind when seeing a forest and sniffing its smell.