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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. Villa Agava in Casablanca, Morocco by Driss Kettani ArchitecteMarch 7th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Driss Kettani Architecte This house is projected on a north-south oriented plot and features a blind façade on the street while being largely open on the side and the back with the south oriented garden. The plan “silhouette” is the consequence of the urban rules and the need to perfectly fit with the adjoining house on the east.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG
 Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG The disadvantageous north orientation on the street and the presence of existing high enclosure walls are here an opportunity to revisit some of the traditional house codes, while maintaining at the same time transparency and spatial fluidity.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG A chicane entrance, highlighted by a set of black and gray-blue traditional tiles walls emphasizes this duality and reinforces the contrast between privacy and discretion on the street and openness and transparency on the pool and the garden. This principle is affirmed through three landscape sequences, the mineral garden at the entrance, the aquatic sequence on the lateral side and the vegetal garden on the south, which in combination with the enclosure walls reinterpret in a certain way the courtyard.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG Inside, a wooden panel / chimney acts as a pivot and help preserving the service area privacy while maintaining a fluidity of use. This panel incorporates a screen of wooden slats whose opacity varies according to the angle of view.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG The project tries to play on the notions of privacy and transparency, fluidity and functional considerations and uses a palette of materials both raw and rich in textures and colors which in combination with the vegetal element offers an abstract composition on the street.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Fernando Guerra – FG + SG  Image Courtesy © Driss Kettani Architecte  Image Courtesy © Driss Kettani Architecte  Image Courtesy © Driss Kettani Architecte  Image Courtesy © Driss Kettani Architecte
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