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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. JHouse in Madrid, Spain by Zooco EstudioJuly 3rd, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Zooco Estudio The project consists in building a house inside of a house, which means that it is more similar to the process of building a single-family house than an interior rehabilitation. This is because it has its own structure, enclosures, and installations. In its original state was an open loft located in the centre of Madrid, built in the late XX century. The structure is load-bearing walls and a structure of wooden pillars and a horizontal structure made by Catalan vault system.  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal
 Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal The concept of the project was to generate 10 horizontal structures in different heights embracing different functions -that meet the costumer’s needs- above and beneath them depending on its height. This is carried out by a metallic structure finished in white. This structure is sometimes resting on the floor and other times hanging from the ceiling and its in-between spaces are filled by wood or glass panels depending on the function they embrace. The same happens with the glass facades.  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal The different levels and heights work as furniture that change its use by the space they generate, being always linked by stairs or short corridors.  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal The costumer’s needs were a very extensive program in a spot of the house. This program should include a bedroom with an en suite bathroom, a second and bigger bathroom, and a flexible and half-open area that could, in the future, embrace another bedroom. Above the horizontal planes; another bedroom, and a studio/gallery with a full wall bookshelf. Outside of the structure, the main bedroom connected to the biggest bathroom and with the option that both could be isolated from the rest of the house simply adding a door from floor to ceiling; the kitchen is linked to the dinning area and the living room. Next to the kitchen there is an office area and a bathroom for visits.  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal According to the materiality, we can distinguish five elements; The perimetric load-bearing wall made of clinker bricks and painted in white; The existent pinewood that constitutes the major part of the flooring and some of the enclosures of the project; The white metallic structure; The different glass surfaces and its opacity degree; and the waxed concrete, that generates a continuous surface with no joints in the humid surfaces like the kitchen floor, the bathroom floor, the sinks or the bathub.  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Imagen Subliminal  Image Courtesy © Zooco Estudio  Image Courtesy © Zooco Estudio  Image Courtesy © Zooco Estudio  Image Courtesy © Zooco Estudio  Image Courtesy © Zooco Estudio
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