Contemporary villa, home cinema and self-consumption
An acoustically treated projection room, multiroom audio, discreet perimeter protection and solar self-consumption arbitrated automatically.
- Building type
- Villas
- Floor area
- 540 m²
- Context
- Contemporary residential
- Brief
- Detached house with a dedicated room
The brief
What the building demands
- 01A projection room at the standard of a real cinema, inside a lived-in house
- 02Music in every room, with no visible cables or speakers
- 03Protection that is neither visible nor prone to false alarms
- 04Consuming your own solar generation first, without thinking about it
The architecture
The response, layer by layer
The same order of dependency as on every project we run: energy first, supervision last. Each layer links to the discipline that handles it.
- 01ENERGYEnergy
Automatic self-consumption arbitration: deferrable loads run while the array is producing. Discipline
- 02ELECTRICALElectrical
Dedicated, filtered supply to the projection room and separate circuits for audio in the living spaces. Discipline
- 03NETWORKNetworks
Structured cabling to every audio and video point, with a distinct network for the distribution equipment. Discipline
- 04SECURITYSecurity
Perimeter detection at the boundary, cameras integrated into the architecture, alerts before entry rather than after. Discipline
- 05ACCESSAccess control
Motorised gate and front door, phone opening, temporary access for household staff. Discipline
- 06FIREFire
Interconnected detection, automatic shutdown of the cinema ventilation and release of the exits. Discipline
- 07AUTOMATIONAutomation
A single cinema scene: blinds, lighting, projection and cooling chained on one press. Discipline
- 08MONITORINGSupervision
Generation and self-consumption tracking, readable without an online account.
Technologies
What we bring to bear
- KNX
- DALI-2
- Zigbee 3.0
- Modbus TCP
- IEC 62109
- Home Assistant
Open, documented standards rather than closed systems: an installation must remain serviceable and extendable by another integrator.
In use
What this architecture produces
- One press turns the room into a cinema, blinds included.
- Music follows the occupied rooms, with no visible equipment.
- Solar electricity is consumed before it is exported, with no manual arbitration.
This record describes a reference architecture. Measured performance figures are published only for completed sites, with the client's agreement.
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