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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. Reform of Business Premise for Housing Use in Sevilla, Spain by modulo4arquitecturaOctober 17th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: modulo4arquitectura The project is commissioned to design a house for 1-2 people in a commercial space located on the ground floor of a residential building of four floors, addressing its materialization through comprehensive reform. The construction of the building in which it is located dates back to the year 1970 and is representative of the architecture of the time, presenting a facade free of superimposed ornament whose composition is resolved by the construction elements themselves. On both sides adjoins residential buildings of more traditional architectural language, coexistence of styles that can be seen along the street, located in the heart of Triana. This being one of the most representative of the most traditional Seville, with low-rise buildings for housing and specific small-scale shops on the ground floor of them.
The place has a marked longitudinal character with an approximate depth of 14 meters in a succession of four bays. A single façade, from which direct access from the street is produced, provides ventilation and lighting, supported minimally, in the third bay, by a small skylight located in an upper patio of three stories high. Taking into account the characteristics of the premises and the requirements of a space intended for housing in terms of comfort and lighting, we consider as project starting points, prior to the spatial formalization, the unitary conception of the whole and the study of the boundary between private space and public space with the aim of protecting the privacy of the residential environment. We propose a transition zone between the street and the dwelling as a hall / “patio” that acts as a filter or decompression zone, delaying the entrance-exit traffic and related in a permeable and variable manner, with regard to privacy with the residential space For this we intervene on the walls that compartmentalise it, frontally to the façade by means of a translucent textile element with the possibility of adopting different positions, and perpendicularly by means of a latticework of wooden squares, opaque with respect to oblique gazes. Around this space we have the living rooms for the day, with only the bedroom in a more intimate location, visually protected after the bathroom piece and accessible through the kitchen, an area in which we reduce the height of the ceiling by dramatizing the passage to the room of greater requirement of privacy. In the bedroom, the existence of the small skylight and the elevation of the roof to the maximum possible height allows us to “settle” the room with respect to the marked longitudinal character of the premises, providing the desired calm associated with the rest area. The location of the bathroom (only subdivided room of the house), the materialization of its walls providing a glass stripe on top, reducing the number of materials used in the work. Contact modulo4arquitectura
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