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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. LAS GAVIOTAS SET in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina by Besonias Almeida arquitectosSeptember 27th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Besonias Almeida arquitectos ANTECEDENTS 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  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  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.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira It was evaluated that the prevailing shade allowed using this material because it provides sufficient thermal protection from spring to late autumn. Its winterization, 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.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira 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.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  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira With these concepts was designed and built the Las Gaviotas Set. MEMORY by María Victoria Besonías The place Las Gaviotas is a small seaside resort on the coast of Buenos Aires located between the forests of Mar Azul and Mar de las Pampas. A virgin territory of fixed dunes with planted acacias and poplars to which is overlapped an orthogonal trace that defines lots suitable for construction of multifamily developments. In this case it is an atypical parcel, of just 15 m at the front, with a dense and young poplar plantation, located 300 meters from the beach.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The commission It’s a set of studio apartments for vacation, with a small administration and a house for the owners, in charge of the units’ exploitation. With a change of ownership involved, this property became a new two-room unit. The square footage to be built would be the maximum allowed under code.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The proposal The project should fulfill the premise that the resulting volumetric accentuates the set idea by proposing common spaces and making imperceptible the individualization of each unit, without thereby resenting intimacy and privacy. So that each house should have two access and with its own expansions, and controlled views to and from common spaces as well. It was proposed a three-dimensional grid developed on two floors alternating covered, partially covered and open spaces of different scale and use, keeping all the trees from being affected by the proposed construction. In this way the views from the units would be a cutout from the original green landscape of the lot and its vegetation would also serve to achieve privacy between the houses of the assembly and in relation to their neighbors.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The functional organization Passing through the courtyard entrance you access the set by a semi covered directly related to the administration. The ground floor units are reached through a free path through the common areas and you access them by their private expansions. From the two main courtyards and through their own stairs you enter the upper floor units that have private terraces as expansions, which are created as a result of occupying the space reticule.Each unit consists of a single room with two distinct areas: the sleeping room with a bathroom and a storing sector, and dining and sitting room with an area for cooking.  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira  Image Courtesy © Inés Tanoira The construction The work was done in exposed concrete, a material that unifies in a single element structure and finishing. 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. In the bathroom and kitchen areas was chosen to solve them with dry construction: galvanized pipes structure and pine boards on the exterior walls, and plasterboard on the interior. The floor cloths are also from concrete screed divided with aluminum plates. The openings are of dark bronze anodized aluminum. Electric floor heating is used as heating system combined with salamanders. The furniture Except the beds, couches and chairs, the rest of the equipment of this house is solved in concrete.  Image Courtesy © Besonias Almeida arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Besonias Almeida arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Besonias Almeida arquitectos
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