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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 in Rua Faria Guimarães in Porto, Portugal by falaatelierAugust 20th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: falaatelier The old house was found in a sequence of equally discrete buildings from different periods of the 20th century. Built originally for a single family, and abandoned for decades, the brief proposed transforming the ruin into a housing unit with five apartments, responding to the accelerated gentrification process in the area.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro
 Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro The perimeter of thick granite walls was preserved and the interior structure was completely refurbished, recurring only to light wood elements. The fragmented arrangement of small inner rooms was replaced with a sequence of almost identically dimensioned apartments.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro In every unit, a modular wall of openable plywood panels was painted in a deep blue tone, concealing different functions: kitchens, bathrooms, cabinetry. Only upon a second look it is understandable the distinction between the five units: the consistent system and visual relation between the several apartments finds its contradiction in the necessary adaptation of its rhetorical rigidity to the geometry of the staircase, the existing windows, the form of the roof. In each studio, a piece of natural stone with a different form unbalances the apparently symmetrical inner elevations.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro The street facade acts as a theatrical device with its unorthodox use of the traditional local tiles. Two double-doors with different colours suggest distinct hierarchies.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Loureiro  Image Courtesy © falaatelier  Image Courtesy © falaatelier  Image Courtesy © falaatelier
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