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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. Paseo de La Brecha in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay by Frazzi ArchitectsNovember 29th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Frazzi Architects The project is located in the historical city of colonia del sacramento -declared unesco world heritage- in a privileged location meters from the river, over two grounds unified in a ¨l¨ shape, with way outs to two streets of strong gradients, typical of river ravines.  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian
 Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian Important previous research works -digging out the historical, cartographic and archaeological background of the place- and careful preliminary excavations within it,  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian Leaded us to discover remains of the wall and its buttresses from the former fortification of the citadel created in 1680 by the portuguese (as well as remains of old pottery and tableware, military elements, sabers and cannonballs from the many battles and struggles between spanish and portuguese). All of them with high patrimonial value, and suggested to be conserved and exposed to the public by the uruguay cultural heritage commission and unesco.  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian The intervention consists in generating a public internal crossing walkway which unifies an old barn with a series of cells or housing boxes, in a direct linkage with the street as a prolongation or “passage” of the city -of a certain medieval spirit- where the archaeological remains found will be inserted and displayed as in an open sky museum.  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian The great area of the old barn is set in value thanks to the emphasis in its significant elements, as they are its high walls with bricks at sight counterforts and its pinotea wooden truss supporting the topping, interposing between them new glass boxes as mezzanines, which with their movement and modern language enrich and give scale to the pedestrian walkway. The use of noble building materials (common bricks, exposed concrete, wood, stone) is one of the city insertion premises.  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian The set of housing is characterized by a simple volumetry, a series of juxtaposed concrete boxes -exposed by gross table- achieving a gradual staggering which accompanies the different levels concerned to the topography of the ground.  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian These boxes superposition generates fullness and emptiness on the pedestrian  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian Walkway, with lights and shadows contrasts and diversity of space situations.  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian As a consequence of this staggering we have balcony terraces, blending in with the favored surroundings by the close presence of the river and the patrimonial constructions that conform the urban scale of this historical neighbourhood.  Image Courtesy © Arq. Federico kulekdjian  Image Courtesy © Frazzi Architects  Image Courtesy © Frazzi Architects  Image Courtesy © Frazzi Architects  Image Courtesy © Frazzi Architects  Image Courtesy © Frazzi Architects  Image Courtesy © Frazzi Architects  Image Courtesy © Frazzi Architects  Image Courtesy © Frazzi Architects
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