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.
HERNANDEZ RESIDENCE in Madrid, Spain by Daniel Valle Architects
January 24th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Daniel Valle Architects
The relationship between parents and children is in flux for the coming years: from total dependency to independency. Then, how do you organize a house and its different rooms if the relationships between family members are constantly shifting?According, the house organizes itself ambiguously between one family nucleus and two independent areas expressed to the exterior by a diagonal cut that divides the cubical mass into two sub-masses.
The location of the vertical circulation on the central part of the house makes the interior spatial division evidentalthough it remains a clear singlevolume from the exterior.
On one side of the vertical circulation the house is occupied by parents and on the other side by the three children. This cut also allows natural light from the south penetrating through a large size window to the main circulation core and further in the living spaces.
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