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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. EL MOLINO CULTURAL FACTORY in SANTA FÉ, ARGENTINA by Anna Prats MC ArqMarch 25th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Anna Prats MC Arq The Franchino mill stands as a metaphor waiting to become habitat, to recover its dimension, to be inhabited to say its words. The word is mill; meaning use to grind, to pulverise, to turn the heavy things into light ones, to destroy the whole in order to achieve subtlety. It is something used to change the matter into a different thing, the flour of language, a way of naming us.  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq
 Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq The “mill” is in the end a flourmill, a visible tribute to work and human action, to the sequence to recreate matter, to obtain bread. So, there is a turn in the choice of white colour, from the whole to the parts, from the iron to the body, the matter to the sense. It is a piece of work with multiple languages where the construction is poetry, the welding can be silent, a line on the water, a chain turned into song.  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq A cultural Factory is born, a place where different kinds of cultural goods are thought, designed and produced: toys, pieces of furniture, books, pieces of art, photographs, films and shows. The preservation and recovery criterion is applied in this case, not only for its historical relevance but also for its constructive and spatial value. On those spaces didactic and expositive activities are placed which are related to the industrial and general design. It is a multiple use space dedicated to craft and art school and to a place where the manufactured goods as well as the manufacturing process can be exhibited.  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq In order to cover this space and to create a nice a sheltered space the “shell vaults” were adapted and used. These vaults were developed in the 40s by Architect Amancio Williams, recategorising an architectural element, which meant one of the highest points in Argentinean Architecture.  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq  Image Courtesy © Anna Prats MC Arq
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