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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. FR43 in Mexico City by JC ArquitecturaFebruary 8th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: JC Arquitectura 15-unit apartment building with 48sqm per unit. Entrance and parking in lower floor and 5 levels with 3 units in each floor. Concrete structure with same dimensions in the whole building. The apartments have one big common area with a higher ceiling height in the “public zone”, using the maximum space allowed between floors by law, 3.60 mts.  Image Courtesy © Luis Gordoa
 Image Courtesy © Luis Gordoa The apartments have a change of height between the concrete slab and the floor, making a difference between both spaces, playing with the heights helps to improve the perception of the spaces and accentuating the public zone from the private zone. The building is inspired in the popular architecture from the 40’s and 50’s of the Escandon, la Juárez y la Cuauhtémoc neighborhoods, where most of housing buildings remain “anonymous” and where built with a very durable and similar construction, giving character to these areas; apart from highlighting the context, they put together a city profile responding well to the relationship between street and building and the materials with which they were built.  Image Courtesy © Luis Gordoa  Image Courtesy © Luis Gordoa This project covers a none exploded real-estate market in Mexico City, it responds to a peculiar use of land with no restrictions of minimum size in housing, where well known suburbs with high density such as Condesa, Polanco, Cuauhtémoc and Roma doesn’t have. This building has apparent materials in the inside and outside, with a typical clay tiles covering the exterior walls from de façade, making an interesting composition between the glassed windows and the concrete structure. In the inside, the walls are made with precast concrete blocks painted in white, making allusion to the exterior.  Image Courtesy © Luis Gordoa  Image Courtesy © Onnis Luque About JC Arquitectura He studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana (1995-1998) and UNAM (1999-2004) receiving honorary mention, his thesis won the Abraham Zabludovzky award for the best thesis of the year. He has taught projects at both institutions. He participated in 2005 in the Young Creators program of FONCA under the mentorship of Miquel Adriá and Bernardo Gómez Pimienta.  Image Courtesy © Onnis Luque In 2008 he won the CEMEX Scholarship with which he studied a master’s degree in Barcelona on housing under the direction of Josep María Montaner and Zaida Muxí. He worked with Javier Sánchez (formerly Higuera and Sánchez) from 2000 to 2004. He founded Alter Arquitectura in 2005 developing intraurban housing projects in central areas of Mexico City. Established JC Architecture in 2007 office leading to date. His work has been focused on housing projects and renovation of buildings.  Image Courtesy © Luis Gordoa  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © JC Arquitectura
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