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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. House with Villa Silhouette in Lyttleton, New Zealand by Irving Smith ArchitectsJanuary 5th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Irving Smith Architects House with Villa Silhouette A house after the Christchurch quakes. One creative home comes down, another goes up, the new silhouetting the old, reminding, resettling, providing lineage. Where the former villa sat square and inward, the new layers out across the southern view, shaping to the silhouette for light, and framing a greater appreciation of the everyday.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds
 Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds Timber traces the silhouette of the old house, providing warmth, and privacy by opening and closing the view, finding sun and shelter on a south facing shadowed and exposed site, and layering ways in and out amongst its close neighbours. That the house is hard to recognise from afar, but remains open to its close community, is testament to the notion of resettling with surrounding context, ideas we exhibited at the 2015 Prague International Architecture Festival entitled Soft Architecture : Soft Context. House with Villa Silhouette is finished as a moment in time, yet looks to its neighbours for future re-finishing. It is soft and participates with a landscape that continues to shift both physically and as a community.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds To its artists owners’, the house provides an affordable continuation in lieu of their much loved but earthquake destroyed villa; a place of craft, creativity, and lineage through the earthquakes. Post quake, they find renewed interest in small things: hanging a pot plant, drying a wetsuit, making tracks for the cat to walk on, an interest in 1970’s aesthetics… Frames are left to provide opportunity for future play, adaption, new endeavours, change. Post-quake time has become more continuous. Life goes on, remaining (like Lyttleton) modest, informal, busy, and full of the same eclectic furniture and stories as before… but resettled and ready for more.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Patrick Reynolds  Image Courtesy © Irving Smith Architects  Image Courtesy © Irving Smith Architects  Image Courtesy © Irving Smith Architects  Image Courtesy © Irving Smith Architects  Image Courtesy © Irving Smith Architects
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