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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. MP House in Sesma, Spain by alcolea+tárrago arquitectosDecember 13th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: alcolea+tárrago arquitectos The commission began in a private competition, in which our office was selected not by a particular project, but by the attitude showed to the clients to build a maximum house with a very small budget in a plot with a very sharp slope. And not least, the involvement and commitment, perhaps beyond any logical reason, to propose successive approximations to the project (up to five preliminary projects and a full executive project with its visa) before the final solution.  Image Courtesy © Iñaki Bergera
 Image Courtesy © Iñaki Bergera Anyway, the program answers common needs for a young couple with two young daughters, including a garage for two cars and a small garden and orchard. It is a monolithic volume, which emphasizes its archetypal geometry using concrete and stained pinewood. Any gesture is made to the better orientation and views, and to clear the plot as much as possible for the small garden and orchard to plant some vegetables and fruit trees. The house, therefore, is set at the highest level of the site. It follows a restrictive regulation on alignment and height. But this also permits to dominate the southern view towards the grain fields and smooth foothills of the River Ebro.  Image Courtesy © Iñaki Bergera  Image Courtesy © Iñaki Bergera Following similar strategies, the two car garage is separated from the main volume to close the north limit. Between the house and the garage, there is an entrance and patio access three meters wide. Large sliding doors in pine board communicate the garage and garden. The ground floor of the house is linked to the garden through large windows. A single space includes the living, kitchen and a place for leisure and work. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a laundry room are in the upper floor. In the basement there is a multipurpose space, facilities and storage rooms.  Image Courtesy © Iñaki Bergera  Image Courtesy © Iñaki Bergera The building details in reinforced concrete unify structure, finishing and texture, and control the total budget. The windows have shutters in stained pine board, very common in the popular architecture of the area. The thermal inertia of the concrete volume as well as an under floor heating and cooling system using geothermal energy determines a high efficiency in a quite extreme climate, very cold in winter and very hot in summer, without resigning to large windows for a maximum use of natural light. A very small local construction company owned by a family friend and local subcontractors carried out the construction. And explains the delay of the execution process.  Image Courtesy © Iñaki Bergera  Image Courtesy © Iñaki Bergera About alcolea+tárrago arquitectos alcolea+tárrago arquitectos was established in 2005 by Rubén Alcolea and Jorge Tárrago. The office is settled in Pamplona, Navarra, where they both live, work and teach. Their work has been awarded in more than twenty national and international competitions, and published in some architecture magazines. They have been awarded with the AJAC VI (2009), for young and emerging architects by the Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, and have been selected for the program Europe 40 under 40 for Emerging Young Architects and Designers 2010, by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. Their teaching and academic work is developed at the School of Architecture of the Universidad de Navarra (ETSAUN), and they both have published essays in many academic books and magazines. They participate very actively in activities as the Bienal de Arquitectura Latinoamericana or the International Conference on History of Spanish Modern Architecture. They currently combine their teaching and research with the professional practice.  Image Courtesy © Aitor Acilu  Image Courtesy © Juan Rodríguez  Image Courtesy © Juan Rodríguez  Image Courtesy © Juan Rodríguez  Image Courtesy © Juan Rodríguez  Image Courtesy © Juan Rodríguez  Image Courtesy © alcolea+tárrago arquitectos  Image Courtesy © alcolea+tárrago arquitectos  Image Courtesy © alcolea+tárrago arquitectos  Image Courtesy © alcolea+tárrago arquitectos  Image Courtesy © alcolea+tárrago arquitectos  Image Courtesy © alcolea+tárrago arquitectos
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