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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. Cake House in Pistoia, Italy by ProgettosporeFebruary 27th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Progettospore The Cake House is a project for the extension of a twofamiliy house . 1. Analysis and observations: The existing house is located in a residential area of the town which was bui lt between 1950 and 1970 and is characterized by one or twofamily houses with a garden. The client’s needs were to increase the living space of 20 per cent, withou t diminishing the garden area. After a preliminary analysis it was decided to act on the southwest side of t he house that was facing the garden and it could then offer a new view on the tow n. From the beginning it was clear that one of the main problems would have been t he adjustment to the existing volume of the house because operating on that side of the house would have mean to completely upset the existing balance of it .  Image Courtesy © Progettospore
 Image Courtesy © Progettospore 2. The Project We did not simply want to expand or enlarge the existing structure but we rath er had the idea that the volume boost should come out of something completely new in relation to the original shape. We then decided that our project would have be en based on the aritmetic concept of addiction and subtraction rather than on a simple expansion. A full part of the existing building was removed to obtain the appropriat e platform where to build the new installment.  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore 3. The Cake The Cake project, as it was called, abide by the rules defined in our Tetracu be protocol. We already knew our blueprint would have been a primitiv e threedimension graphic to add on the existing volume, but it was not enough. We needed specific rules to shape it. In our various, also fortuitous research, we noticed that some stratified cak es had the structure that we needed: a simple basic shape that can gradually beco me more complex subctrating parts of it at different dephts .  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore The amusing part of it and also the most significative one was that the colour ed layers could function as a memory mark of what was taken away off the block . Layers are thus the visual link to what was there previously. In this way th e final shape can be a way ‘to read’ the initial one. A project with ‘time’ inside. Following our Tetracube design protocol we started to create different function al shapes trough simple subctractions. By cutting out a small portion in the roo f, for example, we realized the kitchen unit. The same procedure was used for t he windows shutters even if in this case the subtracted parts weren’t ‘reused’ for a different purpose. Shutters were put on mobile carriages and when they sweep on they show the stratified inner part of the cake, now thus revealed: so basical ly the shutters are the display of our projectual concept .  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Before-the-intervention, Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Before-the-intervention, Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore  Image Courtesy © Progettospore
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