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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. HOSTEL BELA MUXÍA ENLARGEMENT in A CORUÑA, Spain by CREUSeCARRASCO architectsMay 3rd, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: CREUSeCARRASCO architects This is a hostel located in the town of Muxia, one of the emblematic points and reference of the Camino de Santiago, in its continuity and relationship with the Galician coast.  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez
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 Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez The expansion is performed on a recent building situated at one end of the block from the traditional core fronted three streets and dividing walls on one side. The difference between the lower and the upper street level configured an existing volume on two floors with access and independent applications: the lower one is a morgue, the top hostel.  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez The hostel already operating plant has dependencies of reception and community service, two multiple rooms for bunk beds and other two double rooms with bathroom. The growing demand for these latest justify the viability of enlargement and the type of approach chosen in terms of the design and configuration of the new spaces and volumes.  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez The first work is modify a warehouse of the hostel to locate staircase and elevator core. The staircase cannot have thickness to make on its own, without hampering others. From this necessary encounter with what exists, enlargement offers a new way to configure space through rooms surrounded by terraces, patios and viewpoints, which act as stay areas that strengthen the endowment. An own corners and accessibility landscape that incorporates perspectives and images of what surrounds it.  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez The proposal related to languages of the architectural tradition of the place with the industry and the popular culture with walking as aesthetic experience. The dimensions of materials and construction processes used in façade and roof, are also geometric patterns that allow at the same time give depth to the volumes (opening roads) and resolve the functionality of the new spaces.  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez Eight bedrooms: four double and four for four seats. A large social space, offices and a pond to wash feet comprise with terrace spaces the expansion of the hostel in 24 seats. Above one small apartment and more terraces. On the top, a watchtower.  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez The distribution of each room, always the same: access from the outside terrace, living, sleeping area and bathroom in the background, with its independent pieces to allow for greater flexibility of operation.  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez The corner is a bend for walkers, where the habit, as current use, separates and concentrates in one place. It allows a reading that is not linear. The direction change that shows a new feature of everyday life. The beginning of another landscape. A specific form to the tradition as part of its own dynamics of change. A manifest of a new permanence value.  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez  Image Courtesy © Hector Santos-Díez  Image Courtesy © CREUSeCARRASCO architects  Image Courtesy © CREUSeCARRASCO architects  Image Courtesy © CREUSeCARRASCO architects  Image Courtesy © CREUSeCARRASCO architects
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