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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. Visconde Setúbal House in Portugal by Alessandro Pepe ArquitectoMay 31st, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Alessandro Pepe Arquitecto This is a student house located in the center of Porto city. The experience of construction workers permitted the development of good level details of construction, even using the simplest materials. The building has a total of four floors: the basement, the ground floor, the first floor and the attic. In the basement is where the community areas are: two kitchens, two bathrooms, a storage space and a technical area. Within the main kitchen, there is an informal living area that – with the help of the backyard garden – offers a continuous space, for social student gatherings.  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban
 Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban This hybrid kitchen is the main space of the house. Since the space in which it was inserted couldn’t offer condition for a clear separation between kitchen and living space and since we needed to integrate a secondary wooden structure to the existing concrete one, belonging to the 1950s refurbishment of the house, we decided to maintain the original 1900 structure and designed the kitchen furniture to be part of the house structure, using same wood (Portuguese pine) and integrating it in the walls.  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban This mixture of elements has prevailed since the start of the design. The main entrance is from the Rua Visconde Setúbal. And at the end of the staircase is the dorm room hall. The big mirror on this staircase amplifies the perception of the space and creates some visual relation with the existing skylight frame.  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban In this residence there are a total of eight rooms, six of them are simple, and two are double rooms. The room windows are doubled. We followed the idea to rehabilitate the 1920s wooden elements, even if they didn’t perform as present-day frames. Therefore we created a secondary wooden frame with integrated shutter panels. The result is an excellent performance with the same expense of a standard PVC window.  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Attilio Fiumarella and Pablo Hernandez Esteban  Image Courtesy © Alessandro Pepe Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Alessandro Pepe Arquitecto
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