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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. Les Domaines Ott Château de Selle in France by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt ArchitectApril 1st, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect Building in stone implies carving a mountain, the result imposing and profound, creating a presence with self-evident materiality. On this site, near the Cistercian Abbaye du Thoronet, building with stone extracted from Roman quarries places the project in a temporality resonant with the landscape. The stone blocks, mathematical, are one by one metres by fifty centimetres thick, and weigh exactly one metric ton. They rise in equilibrium ten metres high, twist and turn. The walls dilate, filigrees of pure weight in the sun.  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser
 Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie The winery and visitor’s centre marks a new horizon in the Provençal landscape, a mineral presence anchored in the rolling vineyards overlooking the historic Chateau de Selle. Two walls in solid stone rise parallel to the road and wine terraces, the one curved to follow the speed of passing vehicles. The massive walls frame the winemaking process, sheltering the wine, work and visitors. The walls are both imposing and light, shifting as needed to become porous screens, providing views, access and ventilation.  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser  Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie The building is partially sunk into the hill, a thermally inert emergence optimised for winemaking. The slope allows for a natural gravitational flow and a coherent linear process, visible from the public esplanade and reception areas overlooking the caskroom and steel tank hall. The sun warms the surface of the stone, soft as sand. Visitors can measure themselves against the human scale of the blocks, close enough to be touched. It is a meeting of the senses. What remains are the pines, the vines and the mountain.  Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie  Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser  Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie  Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser  Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser  Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie  Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie  Image Courtesy © Dan Glasser  Image Courtesy © Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect  Image Courtesy © Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect
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