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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. Oos House in Alicante, Spain by Sanahuja&partnersApril 11th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Sanahuja&partners Oos house It is a detached house highly influenced by the peculiarities of the plot where it is inserted. This plot has a deep and diagonally slope that requires to place the entrance in the lowest point of the road and set the house levels from the top to bottom, contrary to usual.  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners
The emphatic horizontal volume of the bedroom’s block is deposited at an intermediate level in the middle of the plot forming a superior platform with the access and parking place. Under that volume it is laid out a great terracing platform which houses the main part of the program, making it possible to have the entire day-using area at the same level, including terraces and pool. From this level the rest of the plot continues going down but controlled with different terraces made of dry stone walls, very characteristic in the Alicante rural environ.  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners The palette of materials used is minimized searching simplify architectural language to fully enhance the concept, but without sacrificing the functionality and suitability of the selected. Inside the concrete becomes the protagonist, as you can find it in the retaining walls been seen left or the micro-concrete finish used with the same color on the pavement or in precast concrete steps of the stairs. Externally, the white rendering characterizes the new volumes, in contrast to the dry stone masonry in the terraces which are ordering the plot.  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners  Image Courtesy © Sanahuja&partners
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