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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. THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND AND ONE TALES in Montalvo, Ecuador by Natura Futura ArquitecturaDecember 13th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Natura Futura Arquitectura Once upon a time in a small town called Montalvo, which had 24,000 inhabitants, 20 minutes from Babahoyo capital city of the province of Los Rios, in the coastal region of a faraway country called Ecuador. This town was a climate of about 25 °C with high average annual rainfall in the winter.  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso
 Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso One day a young entrepreneurial family decided to build a house in the center of the town. It was there that appeared the principle of duality. (The duality was always in all places (polished/rustic, empty/full, fiction/reality, silence/noise, lightness/ weight, light/shadow) The ground floor was materialized with exposed brick, taking as a metaphor the rustic with the dynamic of the activities of the day; on the top floor, the envelope of hue with white joined the passive of the rest in the night, finding a balance between tectonics and the hábitat .  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso During the process of design and construction, had as its main objective, minimal changes in the search for minimizing the costs, handling of materials and qualify the various spaces, is taken advantage of the views and desolations responding to their environment, they made the construction hand-crafted in situ, using the technique and local labor.  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso At the end was achieved, an architecture that invites us to understand the tectonics as identity and the habitat as a resource, which function as a story, capable of provoking suspense, laughter, excitement, links, surprises or reflection, to help us to understand our intention that all this clear and defined; and we can accept that we are going to find us with a universe of possibilities and confusion of interpretation. Each one creates its truth on the house, baptizes it, puts a name, puts its mark on the attempt to create and account of its history, or create your own story still in it…  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Donoso  Image Courtesy © Natura Futura Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Natura Futura Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Natura Futura Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Natura Futura Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Natura Futura Arquitectura
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