About Obidos villas

Obidos Villas Luz is a  project of 16 energy efficient villas at Portugal’s Silvercoast. 

It’s located in OBIDOS, a town in the province of LEIRIA, in Santa Maria, Sao Pedro e Sobral da Lagoa, known as BAIRRO SENHORA DA LUZ.  

OBIDOS is a city with a UNESCO protected Medieval walled town, with traditional white washed houses, hundreds of small historical shops, cafés, restaurants around a well preserved castle with beautiful panoramic views all over the countryside.  There are a lot of activities going on in Obidos throughout the whole year. 

 Most famous are the “Festival Internacional do Chocolate”, the “Mercado Medieval” and the Christmas Market.

The modern villas all have a standard living room,a fully equipped open kitchen, 3 bedrooms (one ensuite), 3 installed bathrooms, a terrace, a private garden with swimming pool, BBQ area and carport.  Only the best materials are used to realize this A+ energy efficient villas.  The hot water supply is based on solar energy. The overall  energy usage is covered by a standard included installation of solar panels and a home battery.  All villas have A/C pre-installation.

Although the project is in the countryside there’s easy access to the most beautilfull beaches of Foz Do Arelho, São Martinho Do Porto, Nazaré and Peniche. The Praia D’El Rey Marriott Golf & Beach Resort and  The Royal Obidos Golf & Spa resort are a 15 minutes  drive away. Lisbon is only 45 minutes away. Around the project all amenities like  schools, banks, pharmacy, public transport, CTT, restaurants, cafés are on walking distance. There’s a direct access to the city of Caldas Da Rainha,which has all year round a  lot of activities. 

This new build bungalow villa in the OBIDOS VILLAS LUZ project in the center of Santa Maria, Sao Pedro e Sobral da Lagoa has 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a private garden, a private swimming pool, a BBQ area and a carport.

The villa has only one floor, but with it’s construction area of 145 m², it offers a lot of space. The bungalow is energy efficient build, based on the ICF Plastbau Suisse patented construction method.

Standard the hot water system is based on solar panels. Additional a solar photovoltaic panels installation or a home battery installation is included in the price.

The finishings are based on high standard products.

For each finishing category the customer has a budget to spend, and can decide what’s his preference.

The insulating formwork PLASTBAU® is a pre-built, rigid, easy to install and fix building element. The two high-density expanded polystyrene sheets, which fulfils the function of containing the concrete casting, stay in place as a thermal insulating super performing layer. The final result is an insulating, reinforced concrete monolithic structure.

A standard formwork of 120 cm wide and 300 cm height, weighs only 39 kg. It can be easily manipulated and installed with no need of lifting equipment, just by hand.
One of the great advantages, in addition to energy saving and anti-seismic resistance, is the laying speed which, from the first manipulation till concrete casting, can vary between 15 and 20 min per m² of wall.

Depending on the project, EPS panels can have different thicknesses, to ensure a greater level of thermal insulation. The internal panel is generally 5 cm thick, whereas the external one can change from 5 to 25 cm. The PLASTBAU^®  system is a complete construction system, designed to facilitate installation and the entire construction phase.

It appears to be extremely efficient for the construction of zero energy buildings as indicated by PASSIVE HOUSE or MINERGIE HOUSE, as prescribed by Directive 2010/31 / EC which provides that by 31 December 2020 all new buildings must be nZEB “nearly Zero Energy Building”.