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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. El Rengle Business Centre in Barcelona, Spain by Manuel RuisánchezJuly 27th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Manuel Ruisánchez The El Rengle compound is part of a wider operation to redefine the waterfront of the city of Mataró, combining housing and business uses. The planning of the city block -in collaboration with the Municipal Services- interprets this hybrid situation alternating different autonomous volumes among which this building of business activities stands out.  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo
 Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo The project proposes a typological alternative to the compact commercial building, by developing a strategy that allows the overlapping of uses and incorporating the upper level exterior space as part of the program of office use.  Image Courtesy © Shlomi Almagor The building consists of a discontinuous base on top of which lye three office ‘boxes’. These define an elevated plaza, designed as a condenser of the activity of the upper floors.  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo Seen from this square, the three emerging volumes reveal domestic features of walkways and balconies which perforate the volume with transparencies towards the coast and the city. From the outside, the volumes seem like prisms defined by the visual vibration and color of the mobile solar control louvers. Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Shlomi Almagor  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Ferran Mateo  Image Courtesy © Manuel Ruisánchez , The entire block, of mixed use (housing, hotel, business and offices), was planned in collaboration with the municipal services. Highlighted is the El Rengle Business Centre.  Image Courtesy © Manuel Ruisánchez  Image Courtesy © Manuel Ruisánchez  Image Courtesy © Manuel Ruisánchez
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