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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. Integral Reform Of Commercial Premises for Housing Use in Seville, Spain by modulo4arquitecturaOctober 31st, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: modulo4arquitectura The project was 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 realization 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.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda
 Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda 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- public space with the aim of protecting the privacy of the residential environment.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda 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.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda 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 ceiling 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 glazed strip in its upper part, the reduction of the number of materials used in the work, and the variation of height of the roofs allows us to qualify the different areas and spatially recognize housing in a unitary way.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © modulo4arquitectura  Image Courtesy © modulo4arquitectura  Image Courtesy © modulo4arquitectura  Image Courtesy © modulo4arquitectura  Image Courtesy © modulo4arquitectura
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