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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. AME-LOT in France by Malka ArchitectureFebruary 29th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Malka Architecture In reality, ecological strategies often generate an over-production of materials, becoming energy-vores and clients of factories, the polluters of the world. The real ecological combat is within the re-appropriation of materials and experimentation’s with ready-made objects, far from the so-called benevolence of subsidized agencies. The student housing on rue Amelot is a project that inserts itself into an urban interstice: the thickness of a blind wall.  AME-LOT
 AME-LOT It’s within the thickness of these walls that this thin building is constructed. The urban form is a strict extension of the blind walls, which houses using the existing. No building is destroyed, and no pollution generated. The skin consists of an existing module: the wooden pallet. Held using horizontal hinges, the pallets contract towards the top, allowing privacy or large openings.  AME-LOT The modularity of the various palettes creates varied geometries, which are based on use and constantly regenerated. The re-appropriation of materials recycles the existing without additional processing, which would cost energy in terms of reduction and create byproduct pollution.  AME-LOT The real environmental approach consists not in destruction, but in superimposing interventions upon our built heritage. It consists of a new land strategy, unreferenced on a parcel, constructed in a de facto “ecology” of means.  AME-LOT  AME-LOT  AME-LOT  AME-LOT  Architect
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