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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. Quinta do Carregal in Tondela, Portugal by WAATAA_we are all together around architectureFebruary 7th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: WAATAA_we are all together around architecture In a seemingly infinite territory and mostly occupied by pines and oaks, the implantation of the house marks a space and an intention. A space of pause, serenity and breathing, surrounded and protected by the green patch that filters the light and the eyesight, purifies the air and the soul and stimulates the corporal senses of who let himself be seduced by the elements of nature. An intention of materializing a perennial refuge that transforms and adapts itself to the site’s conditions and to the family that inhabits it.  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY
 Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY The house does not begin in the physical limits of its walls, but rather at the outer limit of the green patch that surrounds it, assuming it as imaginary walls that make up a larger house, a habitat. This green patch, or better, this forest, is assumed as the intermediate and transition space between the outside (of what exists beyond itself) and the interior (housing).  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY The concrete volume construction sets up and gives shape to a boundary defined by employing courtyards that are outlined by the interior spaces of the house. It is the empty space trimmed and subtracted from the built volume. This design favours the organization and the hierarchy of the spaces inherent to the house, and also increases the contact perimeter with the forest, which promotes the creation of scenarios where the fusion of inhabitants and nature happens, where the visual, touching, hearing and olfactory experience is encouraged in a way to provide a sense of comfort and well-being to those who live there.  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY Studio description The studio is dedicated to the provision of architectural services and design, seeking always a balance between discernment (reason) and feeling (emotion) in the architectonical creation. The creation process develops from the early stage of consulting and advice, the development of the projects, coordination, monitoring, supervision, and finally the work’s delivery. It is a 360º integrated perspective, multifaceted, dynamic, critical and interactive. Each situation is unique such as each client. So, the client is not an occasional partner, but an intervenient that participates actively in the entire process and must be understood in the full extent of his relationship with the atelier and the project.  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY For us, architecture is a matter of relations. Our projects are grounded on a stable and transversal basis, where the intertwining of context, idea and experience materializes every architectural work. It is with these proto-elements that we design. The work, the synthesis point, has as its central purpose to seek and find Beauty, placing it at the service of the client and of the society. We do not understand Beauty as a subjective criterion that is often associated. Being beautiful or ugly is not what we seek. Beauty goes far beyond aesthetic criteria. For us, the Beauty in architecture is in the truth of the design, the idea, the materialization and the experience; when it is the result of the development of an accurate idea anchored to the context, establishing a coherent structure in accordance with the materials chosen by logic criteria, culminating in the pleasurable experience (perception, comprehension and interpretation) of the work. An architecture without ideas anchored to the context, without the conscious of its own experience, of the materials, lights, shadows, colors, scale and proportion, is simply a construction. This is not what we want. We want to produce architecture!  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA PHOTOGRAPHY  Image Courtesy © WAATAA_we are all together around architecture  Image Courtesy © WAATAA_we are all together around architecture  Image Courtesy © WAATAA_we are all together around architecture  Image Courtesy © WAATAA_we are all together around architecture  Image Courtesy © WAATAA_we are all together around architecture
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