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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. Casa a l’Armentera in Spain by CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectesOctober 17th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes L’Armentera is a small village close to the Empordà wetlands, in the Costa Brava. In 2005 a new urban plan on the south side of the settlement was developed and some of its agricultural land became urban. The house, occupies one of these small and flat plots.  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes
 Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes The proposal answers three principal issues: How to avoid the closeness of the existing and future neighbour houses. Due to the lack of distant landscape views, how to organize the building around a valuable own space. How to shelter from “tramuntana” the powerful north wind from the Pyrenees and at the same time take profit of the sun and the “marinada”, the sea-land wind that refreshes the house in summer.  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes The reply to those questions is an “L” shaped house that organizes its principal spaces around the garden and the swimming pool. Thus, the house faces the sun and protects from it when necessary but at the same time its form preserves from the undesired wind and the snooping street looks. On the second floor, the apparently blind facades avoid the neighbour windows proximity through the construction of a “patio” that fills of light the interior. Construction becomes interior finishes through the use as natural as possible of materials like concrete, wood, rattan, ceramic and lime mortar. Even copper plumbing are treated as an exposed material.  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes The use of sun protection panels made with twisted rattan in front of the windows provides a pleasant light control and fresh natural ventilation (north–south and east–west) that avoids the necessity of an air conditioning system in summer and heating is produced by an aerothermal system. The garden, built around a lifted small swimming pool that become a long bench, trusts its pursued privacy to the growth of vegetation over the perimeter fence.  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes  Image Courtesy © CASANOVAS, GRAUS, PÉREZ arquitectes
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