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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. Casa B2 in Pamplona, Spain by VAILLO + IRIGARAY arquitectosJanuary 5th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: VAILLO + IRIGARAY arquitectos PLACE  Images Courtesy Joan Mundó
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 Images Courtesy Joan Mundó The geometry of the field is uneven, like a quarter circle. The curve is the result of a sharp tangency between a sidewalk and a newly constructed roundabout generated to serve heavy traffic. This orientation corresponds to the South. One side corresponds to an internal street allowing access and is right across the boundary with the neighbor. The small size, difficult geometry and contradictory environment, make up the profile that defines the place. The plot is surrounded by a turbulent presence of buildings of all sizes, uses and circulation, which simultaneously coexist with the most extreme calm city traffic flow roundabout and new gas station, the presence of a large-scale building – Provincial Police – and the neighboring houses, setting up this confusing and complex result of the territorial struggle in the confines of the city. Faced with this complex amalgam of buildings, and circulation arrangements, the project chooses to shut, and look south.  Images Courtesy Joan Mundó METAPHOR & GEODE Like a geode, amorphous mineral formation on the outside, but when broken or opened you discover a hollowness crystallized etructuras full of semi-precious nature, this home offers a neutral surround, dark, round, in the faces that make up the cube , and as cutting, digging or hollowness appears different geometric formations, contrasted, reddish (tile, brick, mud …) explaining the rich interior of the house … in a somewhat didactic, the house is intended to express the internal structure , where the main rooms open to the south, sheltering from the North.  Images Courtesy Joan Mundó The dark outer casing is composed of a ceramic ventilated facade on large format aluminum structure, leaving between it and the inner concrete wall and insulated air chamber acts as a thermal mattress. The pottery is placed, given its special triangular section, as if it were a tile roof, so that each piece overlaps the previous one, thus minimizing the ingress of water and providing a greater than usual sealing ventilated facades .  Images Courtesy Joan Mundó The dihedral open to the “pocket”, which coincides with the south-facing facades are composed of glass seals on sliding aluminum triple, leading to transparent latches living areas and pool, so that both rooms can stay almost entirely open, connected to the small garden. In turn, these closures have a second front-lattice, whose mission is to protect from sun and privacy. These blinds are made of colored ceramic tile, hollow square, arranged vertically, mounted on one another, strung through stainless steel tubes and separated by Teflon caps. Are arranged on large metal fence, which by way of sliding, run through the entire facade, a facade making it flexible, mobile and lightweight, that can be adapted to different internal requirements by qualifying the inner light, and even the color of filtered light.  Images Courtesy Joan Mundó ORGANIZATION INTERIOR: SPACE POLICONFORMADOS The house is arranged over two floors and a small basement for facilities and warehouse. The ground floor has only three spaces: the garage, the living room and the pool, these two spaces are given all the importance, the best light and facing south. To be developed in two heights, but is formulated as a flexible space, changing and polymorphic multiple space, consisting of several spaces of different types and at different heights, down into two full height central space, back up a library on the lower space , the kitchen incorporates flexible cubicle or not, as desired, through a translucent Perspex sliding screens, and finally, the exterior porch, double height, joins the room, sliding glass when they hide, and the blinds are kept closed outside .  Images Courtesy Joan Mundó The other important space on the ground floor is the pool, which is available as another piece of the house, and location and use criteria similar to be: the garden pours through windows and blinds, can therefore be used in summer from own garden and in winter through the transparency of closures, the garden is a visual extension of the enclosed space. The lighting in this space, plans to invest spatial perception, so that the illumination comes from the soil and water, instead of the ceiling, accentuating the concept of water space. The upper floor is for the bedrooms, 2 major and two minor, which arranged in swastika, look for the four orientations. A vertical drilling, which accompanies the course of the staircase, communicates the core of the house and provides daylight to the darkest area of the house, to be in the geometric center of it.
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