Lloret de Mar is a town in la Selva, on the southern Costa Brava, with around 42,600 inhabitants in 2024, which makes it the third-largest municipality in the province of Girona. Its tourism activity is very high, with more than one and a half million visitors a year, and it coexists with residential areas and developments by the sea. It is a context where a Passivhaus home offers a great deal: control of summer overheating, protection against salinity and stable comfort year-round.
Lloret de Mar combines very high tourism volume, a pioneer of 1950s European tourism with more than one and a half million visitors a year, with an active coastal residential market where primary homes coexist with a strong second-home component tied to the sea. The developments along the coastal strip and the area around the Santa Clotilde gardens concentrate much of the demand for new build.
The coastal Mediterranean climate, with hot summers and high solar radiation, makes summer comfort and the control of overheating the decisive factor. The Passivhaus standard and the Eskimohaus® system respond directly to this challenge with a highly insulated envelope, solar protection and heat-recovery ventilation.
Building in Lloret de Mar calls for respect for the Costa Brava landscape and for exposure to marine salinity. The town preserves landmarks such as the Santa Clotilde gardens, a noucentista garden by Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí begun in 1919 and laid out across 26,830 m2 atop a clifftop. We work on integration and durability from the first sketch, reconciling Passivhaus performance with the architectural language the town and the coast require.
Coastal Mediterranean climate, exposure to salinity and a coastal strip under planning pressure. Lloret de Mar calls for sensitivity to context.
Thermal performance, not display.
Our method in Lloret de Mar starts from a clear premise. In a coastal Mediterranean climate, a home's value is measured by its ability to hold summer comfort on the least possible energy. Orientation and solar protection are worked to avoid overheating without giving up daylight; the envelope is insulated and sealed until thermal bridges and infiltration are eliminated; the joinery and heat-recovery ventilation guarantee clean air and a stable temperature; the materials and finishes are selected with durability against marine salinity in mind; and the palette stays coherent with the coastal landscape. Landscape integration is resolved before the technical design is closed, to avoid late reworking.
Lloret de Mar's urban core concentrates the tourism activity and the densest typologies of the town. The coastal strip and the developments by the sea are among the most valued residential settings, with view orientations over the coast, from Fenals beach, more than 700 metres long and quieter and more family-oriented, to Sa Boadella cove, close to 250 metres, below the headland of the Santa Clotilde gardens. The Castell de Sant Joan, a medieval fortress from the 10th and 11th centuries, crowns the mountain that separates the Lloret and Fenals beaches. Each area has its own planning regime and landscape sensitivity.
It makes a great deal of sense. In a coastal Mediterranean climate the challenge is not heating but summer overheating, and a highly insulated envelope with good solar protection and heat-recovery ventilation holds comfort on a fraction of a conventional home's energy.
Yes. Passivhaus is a performance requirement, not a style. It is fully compatible with the architectural language and material palette that the Costa Brava landscape and the town's composition rules require, in a town with notable heritage such as the modernist cemetery inaugurated in 1901.
The design provides materials and finishes selected for durability against salinity, with a sealed envelope and heat-recovery ventilation. The home stays at a stable temperature with no thermal loss or condensation.
Resolution usually runs between 8 and 16 weeks from complete documentary submission, with extensions possible on plots affected by landscape protection or the coastal strip.
Building in Lloret de Mar is not something to settle with an automatic configurator. The plot, the exposure to the sea, the relationship with the landscape and the applicable planning regime are variables that call for direct dialogue. A conversation with one of our architects will give you more than any online estimate.