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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. House 3 in Córdoba, Argentina by Pablo SenmartinNovember 29th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Pablo Senmartin “Categorical / right angle of the character, / of the spirit, of the heart. / I looked at that character / and I found myself “ The house is located in the western area of the city of Córdoba, in an urban neighborhood that has large green areas, such as La Costanera del Río Suquía, the Botanical Garden, the Arroyo El Infiernillo, and several ravines. In a minimum plot of 12.5m x 21m in front of Infiernillo, a 200m2 house was built for a family of young professionals. The land had a natural slope of one meter ten (1.10m) descending towards the corner, given this characteristic it was decided to work on two levels, one yard (plus 1.50mts) and another access (plus 0.10mts). To give the projected level, the patio was filled with the material extracted from the excavation of the foundations.  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte
 Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte The house offers a sober image towards the corner, it is a reinforced concrete box, with openings in horizontal slits that in turn are protected by a curtain of poplars that prevents the direct arrival of the sun’s rays. An independent structure of reinforced concrete was used to obtain free plants, 6x10mts by cassette reinforced concrete slabs that are visible in the ground floor. There are two accesses, one pedestrian and one vehicular, each located on different sides of the house.  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte The ground floor offers to the corner, a homogeneous image with a metallic grid that acts as a visual filter, as a security element and as a base, which separates and frees the ground floor of the two upper levels, decreasing the visual impact of the triple height , contains the services and accesses. The austere and impermeable exterior image gives rise, when entering, to large transparent sliding surfaces that link the garage – barbecue area – games room with the patio, by means of a stairway. Towards the patio the house opens completely.  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte The first floor contains the integrated kitchen and dining room areas. On the second floor there are two bedrooms and a desk, which can be transformed into a third bedroom, the divisions are made with light partitions to allow changes. All levels are linked with a metal staircase of two sections that also leads to the accessible terrace All rooms have cross ventilation and the possibility of entering sunlight at different times of the day. A rotisserie on the ground floor and a home on the first floor, work as heating in winter through ducts that run through the house. The exit to the roof terrace works as a chimney that extracts the hot air in summer.  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte Through a game of contrasts, the house becomes, therefore, an urban antihero, where the rough exterior and the fluid and changing interior coexist, with the challenge of reclaiming the urban neighborhood as a facilitator of the development of a contemporary architecture that in turn reinforce the identity of a characteristic area of the city, and of solution to the problems of living that condition us todayThe project 4 corners establishes an exercise of reflection and action of value on the block and the urban corner of a neighborhood located in the periphery of the city of Córdoba, with contemporary problems such as insecurity and diverse architectural expressions.  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte The 4 corners present similar typologies that change their relation with the exterior according to the orientations of each lot. The use of traditional materials was proposed, giving each corner a different meaning. Corner 1: Different ways of using the common brick in masonry and several screens. Corner 2: Masonry of reinforced concrete walls with insulation, ceramic brick revoked and screenings of concrete block. Corner 3: Reinforced concrete and brick walls of 20 with block screens and Corner 4: Insulated ceramic bricks with exterior and interior plaster. Similar relationships are established between the corner lot, the dwellings and the housing relationships between them and with the existing urban fabric in the 4 “ph” (see diagram)  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte The houses do not come into contact with the neighboring medians, this gives future users possible extensions of the typology in that available interstitial space, nor do the two houses that are in the lot come into contact with each other, thus obtaining better sun conditions and privacy for each of them The typologies are simple, with a social area on the ground floor fully integrated and flexible, which offers users different occupation alternatives. Upstairs is designed with the possibility of dividing the environment according to user needs in areas of study + rest.  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte Links are established between the houses to be 4 corners and 8 homes of 100m2 of the same block, with similar but flexible typologies. Priority is given to an introverted attitude of architecture towards the urban exterior, where the link is nuanced through the tectonics of the material, the nuances of the different types of screenings and the parking spaces that connect the courtyards with the sidewalks and the street.  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte The interior of the house presents spatial connection with the courtyards as a continuity, through large openings. The openings are divided into panels that allow internal divisions according to the user’s needs. The minimum patio is the protagonist. Using traditional materials in different ways, allowing different expressions and spatial situations is the main theme of this set. In each of the 8 dwellings different possibilities arise according to the orientations and links with the context, the combination of the materials of the envelopes, was in turn looking for an optimal thermal performance. Finally, these low-cost homes ($ 10,000m2) became an exercise in the search for new expressions that value the neighborhood corner with traditional materials used and combined in a unique way.  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Gonzalo Viramonte  Image Courtesy © Pablo Senmartin  Image Courtesy © Pablo Senmartin  Image Courtesy © Pablo Senmartin  Image Courtesy © Pablo Senmartin  Image Courtesy © Pablo Senmartin  Image Courtesy © Pablo Senmartin
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