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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. Residence in Crete, Greece by tense architecture network_TANNovember 20th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: tense architecture network_TAN Work nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Mies van Der Rohe Award 2017. The location, on a small hill, is privileged. The longitudinal field is open to the south and the view of mountain Youhtas. -How can a linear residence deal with the intense cretan light? The house necessarily unfolds along the south side, the side of the sun: through a double curvature the building is bend by the power of the sun’s path from east to west.  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis
 Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis The flat, elevated corner plot offers views of the city and has a southern orientation. The house develops in four levels, hosting the living quarters at the overground floor level and the sleeping quarters at the groundfloor level. The latter, is open to the garden that is shaded by the main elevated volume which hosts another private bedroom and two open-air spaces excised from its two corners. The fair-faced concrete volume functions as a shelter both for the garden and the subjacent main living space. Its bright color is contrapuntal of the olive-green base that accommodates the other bedrooms -which will eventually be hidden by the climbing plants of the tensed inox-rope fence.  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis The elevated concrete facade is without openings, except from an excision at the upper corner which reveals an outdoor space open to western views of the city. The lower curve receives the light at the intermediate main level, incorporating the staircase to the upper floor. The volume acts not only as a receptor of the private upper premises of relaxation, but also as a shelter for the semi-open expansion of the residence and its garden. Its interior ends in a hidden excision of the roof, at the eastern corner. There, a small pool serves as an outdoor bath. The house is curved, twisted, excised, following the field’s forces -natural or urban. The essentially playful façade seems to enjoy the contrapuntal complicity of its neighboring mass-produced apartment blocks.  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Image Courtesy © Petros Perakis  Longitudinal-section, Image Courtesy © tense architecture network_TAN  Ground-floor-plan, Image Courtesy © tense architecture network_TAN  Overground-floor-plan, Image Courtesy © tense architecture network_TAN  Cross-section, Image Courtesy © tense architecture network_TAN  Birds-eye-perspective-view, Image Courtesy © tense architecture network_TAN  Residence-in-crete-perspective-view, Image Courtesy © tense architecture network_TAN  Site-plan, Image Courtesy © tense architecture network_TAN
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