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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. The Diamondhouse by XTEN Architecture designed using AutoCAD and RhinoSeptember 14th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: XTEN Architecture The Diamondhouse is a music studio extension to a house located deep in a canyon, set against a severely sloping hillside, with minimal access and little space upon which to build. Direct sunlight reaches the site for only a few hours a day. The geotechnical conditions on site were challenging, requiring 30-foot caissons to underpin new walls and foundations. A complex web of regulations governed the height, width, depth and specific configuration of the retaining walls needed to build the project.  The Diamondhouse
 The Diamondhouse Given these constraints, the extension is carefully positioned between the existing structure and an imposing hillside to inflect the landscape and create exterior programmatic spaces (firepit, terraces) around it. A series of wall planes fold up and over the building to create a rooftop railing and privacy for the sundeck.  The Diamondhouse The building material system was developed to relate the new extension to the natural landscape and also to reduce the visual scale of the building. The façade pattern was created from natural elements taken from the canyon site; abstracted, scaled and arrayed across the building in laser cut fiber cement panels. The panels impart a delicate quality to the otherwise hard edged and programmatically driven geometry of the building. Daylight brings out the etched lines and patterned edges of the cement panels, which in direct sunlight appear as thin as a ceramic vase. In the evenings the building appears more volumetric and crystalline. At night lighting from within the building also suggests the form of a perforated lantern, illuminating the canyon terraces.  The Diamondhouse  The Diamondhouse  Diagrams  Plans  Sections
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