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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. V+D SET in Buenos Aires, Argentina by BAK arquitectosNovember 29th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: BAK arquitectos This work is the result of a process that began in 2004 with the construction of a summer house in the forest of Mar Azul. It was necessary to intervene in a territory of great scenic beauty, owner of a powerful wild presence that is gradually becoming domesticated due to the proliferation of houses with a formal search from bucolic to picturesque which in nothing refers to that environment or to this present .  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira
 Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The project was implemented as an opportunity to propose shapes, materials and alternative uses in tune with this particular environment. The search is then oriented toward a propositional architecture of a more leisured use of the dwelling, whose materiality and formalization were the result of a belonging will to that pre-existing reality.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira This is how the recognition of the particular microclimate of the maritime forest of Mar Azul and the atmospheres it recreates, as well as the need to concrete the construction from a distance, were determinants of aesthetic-constructive decisions which defined the work.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The need to capture the light in the dense forest led to conceive housing as a “semi covered” and then to resolve it with large panes of glass, which will enable views from inside in all directions and from outside would reflect the landscape allowing the house to mimic therewith. The decision to accelerate the execution time to allow monitoring the work at 400 miles away defined the exposed concrete construction. It was evaluated that the prevailing shade allowed using this material because it provides sufficient thermal protection from spring to late autumn. Its weatherization, given its status as summer home, was not relevant (though of course it was planned) and the hydrophobic insulation could be solved with a very compact concrete and a study of the envelope shape so that the rainwater evacuation will take place very quickly. It was also expected that the expressive quality of exposed concrete molded within a formwork of wooden boards may result from a forceful and mimetic presence at once, allowing the work to coexist in harmony with the landscape.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira In short, a skin of only two materials – concrete and glass – turned out appropriate to solve the integration with the landscape and to respond to formal, structural, functional, maintenance and termination issues.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The place These are two lots in a dune of pronounced relief, suitable to build two housing units in each. Although they find themselves surrounded by a thick forest of conifers they face scarce small-sized specimens of their own, since they were planted few years ago.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The commission The request of the clients was a set of 4 housing units for rent throughout the year, with a pool area, solarium and a common storage area. The units should be isolated from each other and count with expansions, a grill sector and garage. The number of rooms available in each unit would be part of the studio’s proposal as well as the program for the unit’s requirements. The square footage to be built would be the maximum allowed under code.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The proposal The resulting project had to meet some primary goals of preserving the scarce trees, respect the highlight of the lot not only to maintain the natural landscape, but also to reduce costs sand movement and do more interesting and varied the relationship between housing and territory and finally make the venture viable adjusting the cost-benefit equation as it is an investment for commercial purposes.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira It was then proposed to use a single type of housing that mirrored and located at different heights along the terrain, the whole input range. The location in the plant responds to the search units privacy therebetween The unit is a cube (which it is attached to it as a backpack volume bathrooms) modulation rigorous, double height divided into four distinct spatial units for the location of the stairs, fixed equipment and varying heights.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The functional organization You enter the apartment through the axis of the plan. On one side appears the living room, divided into two sections of distinct use by the fireplace and a variation of free heights. On the other side is the dining room and kitchen with access to a private expansion with a grill area. Up and opposing are located the accesses to the two bedrooms, the main room with private bathroom and terrace for exclusive use.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The construction The set was built with slabs and partitions of exposed concrete made within pine boards formwork. H21 concrete was used with the addition of a fluidifiant so that this mixture, with little amount of water to harden, results very compact and doesn’t require sealing. The floor cloths are also from concrete screed divided with aluminum plates. The bathrooms’ coatings are of venecita. The decks on natural ground and terraces are made of treated pine and protected with impregnating agent. The openings are of dark bronze anodized aluminum. The heating system combines salamanders with hot air equipment.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © BAK arquitectos  Image Courtesy © BAK arquitectos  Image Courtesy © BAK arquitectos
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