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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. Closed house in La Plata, Argentina by felipe gonzalez arzacJuly 18th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: felipe gonzalez arzac “Architecture is inhabited sculpture” is one of the phrases of the prestigious Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi. It has to do with one of the premises of the work philosophy of the architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac, and the housing that we share in images.  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS
 Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS The rationalist, modern and conceptual language materializes in this house, in the same way as the pure geometric forms. Precisely, there is an intention that the pedestrian see the house on its exterior as a sculptural object; that inhabited sculpture to which Brancusi referred. There, a bucket of blunt concrete, its totally blind façade and its open sides give a particular visual impact, generating the sensation of being witnessing a completely dark house inside, closed, without much connection with the outside. However, it is the opposite effect that is generated when entering the house, which is decomposed and perforated almost entirely with a large courtyard as a compositional center, trigger circulation and central axis of its composition. This game between exterior and interior and the decision to create internal patios is one of the hallmarks of this study, which also plays a leading role here: here, the interior, totally glazed, is linked to the exterior, seeking the dissolution of limits. In this sense, the house reveals a search and an intention of exploitation and spatial disintegration of the cube, which is dynamized from two axes that cross it in different hierarchies; a main competitive transversal axis that breaks with the static of the “concrete box”, generating a lineal perspective to the infinite, articulated by the dining kitchen and the longitudinal table, the gallery, the concrete wall and the infinite linear pool that ends enhance this axis.Then, the house proposes another secondary transversal axis, in a direction parallel to the street, materialized with the lower wall that defines access to housing. A separate paragraph in the conceptualization of this house deserve concrete and its value as a plastic and malleable material, and glass, as a transparent material that opposes the imposing concrete box. Both create a home that generates two very opposite situations, one from the outside and a very different inside. It remains to speak also of the idea of zoning proposed by the Study, in this house. The public part takes place in the entrance, crossing the access, the toilette, the living room and the dining room; a more intimate and semipublic situation is that of the kitchen area, with a large island in the center. And a third area is the one that contemplates the private area of the house, where the bedroom, the dressing room and the bathroom are located, which is accompanied by an idea of cutting in space, since the height of its interior is 2, 4 meters, with the aim of generating a safeguard situation in this area. It only remains to say that, faithful to the philosophy of the study and its constructive premises, the internal courtyard that we mentioned in previous paragraphs is the central axis of the house that relates all the areas listed. It configures the building floor and delivers air and light to the rooms. Thus, as a work of art, the house offers multiple looks, dissolved boundaries and a visual game where architecture becomes that sculpture to be inhabited.  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © JAVIER AGUSTIN ROJAS  Image Courtesy © felipe gonzalez arzac  Image Courtesy © felipe gonzalez arzac  Image Courtesy © felipe gonzalez arzac  Image Courtesy © felipe gonzalez arzac  Image Courtesy © felipe gonzalez arzac
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