Just for the sake of completeness - I really don't care which building material you want to use - because your calculation doesn't make sense to me. 17.5 + 14.0 equals 31.5 cm to me - in difference to 36.5 that's only about 5 cm all around. So how do you come to 20 cm/side?
True...here I made a mistake in thinking...it's probably 20 cm spread over all 4 walls...
I strongly doubt that ...
Here I must shamefully admit that I have not yet dealt with all these KfW standards.
The ex-boyfriend of my current partner built a house with the same architect 4 years ago, using the same masonry. Only, instead of gas condensing boiler, he went for geothermal energy with surface collectors. He achieved the KfW 55 standard, I know that 100% this time.
So we have two pretty much identical buildings...only the type of heating differs here. Both houses, from my understanding, retain heat equally well...only that I will probably have higher heating costs in the long run. Now I assumed that with a gas boiler we would reach KfW 70. Whether that is really the case...?
Unfortunately, our budget did not allow for a geothermal heat pump with probe drilling (surface collector not possible).
As I said, you may well be right here too...?