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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. Secret guest house in Mexico City, Mexico by Pascal ArquitectosJune 15th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Pascal Arquitectos Descriptive memoryHouse built in two levels, ground surface and rudeness of 1,249.90 m2362.44 m2., 887.46 m2 free area occupied by the garage, a courtyard with reflecting pool and the garden (724.71 m2.) Ground Floor, 362.44 m2 covered entrance hall, inner hall, double height library, 2 guest bathrooms, double height Interior Patio, Living room with fireplace, dining room, breakfast area and kitchen with Pantry and utility room. Includes room covered terraces, breakfast area and kitchen and a barbecue pit.  Front View in Night
Upper level, 261.98 m2, Lobby, TV Room, Master Bedroom with bathroom and dressing room, gym, two secondary bedrooms with bathroom and dressing room each and an outdoor terrace garden. Guest bedroom with bathroom separated from the rest of the bedrooms also on this level. Structure-based construction of concrete with rebar, apparent concrete walls, red brick and use of structural steel elements.  Night View The exterior walls finishes and some interior ones are Galarza stone , plaster and paint the ceiling as in the use of marble bathrooms Sto. Tomas and cast with vinyl and enamel paints in wet areas. Chiseled exterior concrete floors and marble Sto. Tomas in various sizesas designed river boulders dropped into water body and the side garden walkway. Engineered walnut flooring and carpet in dressing rooms. Windows in anodized aluminum and clear glass, iron railings and gates, garage doors and access in iron and wood.  Night View Fixed furniture in the Library, double-height ceiling lamp, toilets, closets, dressers and cupboards and doors and baseboards are made of walnut. Main stairs and visits room, based on elements of steel and wood tracks.  Night View Narrativo memory Contemporary architectural family house in a residential classified historic colonial zone of Chimalistac in Mexico city . It difficult to say anything else about another house , and this is what this is about, is a house made to order for a client, which is often more complex than developing a large building. The result depends on two factors: a good architect, but rather more of a good client.  Interior View The context in which the house is inserted has an historic colonial character untouched by the unorganized sprawl that has occurred elsewhere. The fact of intervening in a historic area entries (INAH) raises the dilemma of adapting or blending into the context, but by ideology could not talk about the present and future with the language of the past.  Interior View Fact generated some discussion with the INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History) http://www.inah.gob.mx/ because their vision is to recreate the past even if this results in a pastiche , and finally and where the interaction between the inside and outside occurs our goal was to achieve the neutrality that would make the transition from the historical to the modernity of the interior.  Interior View The fashionable and politically correct slogan nowadays is that everything must be sustainable over yet despite the good wishes and intentions, and after several runs to determine the relationships financial cost benefit, the only we could manage to improve was in energy saving light bulbs and intelligent control systems and sensors linked to timerand more efficient irrigation systems.  Wash basin The most important was the use of intelligent design to make the house better in comfort and climate, and the building design process in which no processing or transformation of materials such as stone, wood etc.was done, a system based on just in time logistics and a change in how the jobsite is managed ,with prefabrication and the inclusion of pre-finished items.  Interior View As part of the architectonic discourse and for reasons of durability and maintenance very few finishings were used, being concrete one of the most notable of the house for its ability that does not age and decay ,and the fact it acquires more dignity and history with time.  Interior View One of the main objectives was to achieve the most natural light and views to the garden, and not to create a series of closed rooms but a series of spaces where the events happen and articulate wit one another. It is important to note that the entire house is designed in modules and multiples of feet and then generating different size of overlapping rectangles, that became the generating pattern of the geometric theme of the house.  Interior View  Interior View  Secret guest house  Secret guest house  Secret guest house  Exterior View
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