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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. Garden House in Vistahermosa, Spain by Joaquín Alvado BañónJanuary 11th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Joaquín Alvado Bañón It is a Project that research the relation between nature and architecture. We discuss the concept of a private garden with a single house in a low density program in the city. It is a rethinking, in a sustainable way of life, to transform the way of promoting the east side of Spain.  Image Courtesy David Frutos
 Image Courtesy David Frutos A 700 m2 ground floor The ground floor occupies the entire plot. The vertical elements of the structure merge with the tree trunks. Glass separates the interior from the exterior, limestone paving entering and leaving. An uncertain relationship is established between what is happening inside and outside, between the edges. Radiant floor heating makes this design condition comfortable.  Image Courtesy David Frutos Use of the garden at every level The design establishes the natural/artificial relationship at every level. The distribution of the house descends to level 0 while the garden climbs to the upper storeys. The aim of this condition was that the blend of architecture and landscape should be present in every sphere of the project. Walk on earth and damp grass at every level of the house, breathe in its Mediterranean nature.  Image Courtesy David Frutos 3 houses in 1 Three generations in one place led to suggesting three life options. The ground floor is a shared environment but the upper storeys, dismembered by their entrances, allow more privacy. The idea sprang from seeing three ways to live in the same surroundings, three objects related to a single context. Private and public are part of the dwelling brief and as such are included as a working condition.  Image Courtesy David Frutos Interface access elements between rooms The stairs to the upper floors divide the built volumes into specific programmes. Structurally, because of earthquake risk, three independent structures had to be designed. They are stabilised by the sloping slabs that take the vegetation to the upper floors. The staircases are independent structures and some flights are only accessible to those occupying particular rooms.  Image Courtesy David Frutos Habitable landscape, dynamic structure The built and plant elements combine into a structure of related fragments. Real things and their images generate combinations that multiply, endowing the project with this condition of unreality. The reflex glazing used on different planes of F brings the vegetation and the sky into the façades. Because the mirror-glazed elements are sliding and the weather changes, they make the project a live and dynamic thing.  Image Courtesy David Frutos Public/private relationship. The sloping planes introduce elements of the brief that establish bonds between the public nature of the ground floor and the private nature of the upper floors. The ramp entering the garage and those that raise the vegetation to the upper floors are public zones within the private spheres of the building. Places for encounters, meeting places. We had images of someone climbing a tree to be on his or her own, of cabins in the wood or tree houses.  Image Courtesy David Frutos Formal and programmatic research The design work consisted of finding the relationships between the limits of the inhabited surroundings. Process was exciting because new discoveries were made day by day. The plot is a void and a fullness, a landscape and nothing, a volume and a plane. The result is a thought between volume and landscape with the town as a backdrop.  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos  Image Courtesy David Frutos
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