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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. Rombo IV in Mexico City, Mexico by Miguel Ángel AragonésMarch 25th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Miguel Ángel Aragonés Los Rombos are four bodies assembled together with the formal accident generated by the urban fabric. It is a private space with three houses and a studio, in a central and wooded area of Mexico City called Bosques de las Lomas, with a continuous interaction with the tree; it is perhaps our most present and, in any case, the most immersive guest, just like the broad continuity of water. Fountains and mirrors are a constant natural resource in which the reflection sharpens the environment, in this (case) almost always green: as in almost all highly populated cities, the tree is a precious asset, as well as vegetation, water, land and even more intimacy nowadays…  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher
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 Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher I desired to have an exterior that would protect privacy, be seen only by the sky, the air or the sun, that could live in the house with the solitude that the city bustles. Photography tells a small part of the history of what we discover as architecture, leaving aside the touch and expression of materials, the hardness and the softness, the heat and the cold, the voice of a space that accumulates the journey of the wind in the leaves of a tree, the sound of a fountain, the cooing (murmur) of silence, a picture does not describe the fragrance of a garden or the smell of incense: all this speaks of atmosphere and shelter, and I only find it in spaces that have the need to murmur with light. The shape of their most natural accident is nothing but the consequence of a space in search of intimacy, with oneself and of experiences that we wish to repeat in the form of architecture …  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher  Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher
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