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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. Mantiqueira House in Sao Bento do Sapucaí, Brazil by Una ArquitetosNovember 23rd, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Una Arquitetos The detail, from our point of view, refers to the organization process of construction, aiming a specific spatial result. In Mantiqueira’s House, two constructive systems coexist, the foundation in apparent reinforced concrete and the suspended wagoon in a steel structure. The project detailment searched an independent expression for each of those volumes, understanding its differences as a positive result of the construction process.  Image Courtesy © nelson kon
 Image Courtesy © nelson kon The basement is in direct contact with the soil, containing the soil, allowing the house volume to be incorporated to the site geography. In general, it accommodated more collective uses, as the kitchen, living room, porch, patio, sauna and guest rooms. Its roof was designed to contain a swimming pool, an aquatic garden and a timber deck, all leveld with the finished floor. None of the concrete was covered, neither on the wall nor on the slab in internal spaces. All execution of forms, in timber boards, had it disposal previously planned. Rails for the aluminium profiles that structure all glazing are embedded in the concrete, minimizing frames thickness. The groundfloor is made with demolition timber boards in its internal spaces, while with black basalt stone (or portuguese mosaic) and high density timber decks (cumarú wood) on the outside.  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon For the suspended wagoon, the steel structure was already cut by robots in a factory, being easily assembled and welded on the ground. Once assembled, it was erected by a crane and fixed to the two concrete columns in about 10 minutes. In order to oppose it to the concrete basement, this volume was detailed to be as light as possible. Instead of concrete slabs, we designed timber boards. They were either made with industrial sheets or with planks.  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon The floor is constituted by demolition wood, and the outer covering by the same cumarú boards that were used for the deck. Those boards were carbonized with a blowtorch to increase its resistence to wheater conditions. On inner spaces, plywood panels cover cell concrete block walls and the ceiling. The roof is a waterproof membrane alwitra covered with gravel, above plywood panels. Detailing those components is a strive to expose nuances of the structural solution, as the delicates cross section steel hangers, that allow the transition from the lateral trusses to the inverted beams, althought without exposing the truss entirely. The inverted beams themselves are blocked with a steel catwalk that runs the volume lengthwise. It facilitates all roof maintenance, protects the stair skylight from excessive sunlight exposure and revels an astonishing landscape of Mantiqueira’s Mountains  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © nelson kon  Image Courtesy © Una Arquitetos  Image Courtesy © Una Arquitetos  Image Courtesy © Una Arquitetos  Image Courtesy © Una Arquitetos  Image Courtesy © Una Arquitetos  Image Courtesy © Una Arquitetos  Image Courtesy © Una Arquitetos
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