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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. Canopied – holiday house f at garda lake in Italy by bergmeisterwolf architektenMarch 16th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: bergmeisterwolf architekten A new volume is added to the antique XVII century villa overlooking Garda lake, in the north of Italy, immediately showing two contrasting and complementary elements: the first one, a 3-floor stone house, the second, a dyed concrete canopy.  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit
 Image Courtesy © gustav willeit The extension is carefully inserted by using two different strategies: it is distanced from existing buildings with the use of interstitial spaces while, at the same time, it gives continuity to pre-existing elements, such as the rough exterior plaster from the old house, which is used also indoors, and reinterpreted in the black dyed concrete elements using new materials and construction technologies. New windows, shutters and frames are all finished in similar dark hues to improve the visual exchange and coherence between both parts of the project.  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit Another important relationship between old and new is the one established between the extension and the existing garden. Large vertical sliding windows provide the space under the new canopy with two different characters: one of complete openess and other of a closed, safe environment. The elements shaping the new spaces disappear in the ground, transforming a closed room into a covered space in direct contact with the old lemon orchard, a place under the shadow. When open, the extension becomes a part of the garden, a large exterior space surrounded only by an old dry stone wall. An integration between existing, new and nature.  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit Two 3meter-high L-shaped vertical sliding windows measuring 2,7m x 5,3m and 5,6m x 2,0m feature double-pane glass panels mounted on bronze frames, and weight around 3200 kg each. These moving elements are controlled by an automated system and descend completely in an underground cavity, which also houses the 1,1KW electric engine powering the entire roller chain and spur mechanism.  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit The facades of the extension where aligned considering existing elements in the site: in the area touching the old house, trasparent sliding elements were placed parallel and perpendicular to the old facade, whereas in the section closer to the lemon orchard these elements were aligned parallel and perpendicular to the antique stone wall.  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit A new internal staircase built in concrete and wood links all the levels of the house. A second stair is inserted in the interstitial space between the old wall and the extension in order to connect the garden with the roof terrace located above the extension.  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit  Image Courtesy © gustav willeit  Image Courtesy © bergmeisterwolf architekten  Image Courtesy © bergmeisterwolf architekten
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