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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 for a Writer in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain by Iniesta Nowell ArquitectosSeptember 3rd, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Iniesta Nowell Arquitectos The project starts with the reconstruction of a small portion of the neighborhood. A piece of hidden city for all and existing only for a few neighbors. You can explain from the search a good cross ventilation, uniform natural lighting and from the fight for the last habitable centimeter, but we can also talk about the city. The client, English globetrotter writer, commissioned what in London is called a “Backland House” but Andalusian. These are interventions moved by the need to find urban land at an affordable price by proposing homes capable of rehabilitating the forgotten rear, densifying the urban fabric, transforming those hidden spaces and in this case the corral of an old neighborhood house in the San neighborhood Miguel de Jerez de la Frontera.  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell
 Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell The “why” of all the variables and conditions of this house has not been questioned, but the “how”. How the light should enter, how it should be built, how it will be used, what situations will be generated in relation to the adjacent courtyard or how the succession of events will be from when someone leaves through the door of the house until it reaches the street. Questions that lead us to an investigation and an enrichment of the process, and of the project, and to a much more adequate result. The house is raised from the small scale, from the immediate, almost like a large piece of furniture made of bricks and concrete. We take any necessary gesture to let the light through and ventilate. The program was definitely a living room with a large kitchen and (as the ordinance allows) a small castillete as a room. When organizing the spaces in 33m2 each centimeter counts; a small toilet counterbalanced with kitchen furniture, a skylight that is hidden on the terrace taking advantage of the development of the staircase, a diaphanous ground floor and a good window open to the patio.  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell On the first floor you play with the position of the small bedroom that the regulations allow to build, placing it in the center, halfway between a terrace and “the jungle”, a patio named after its owner that also houses a large pool variety of exotic plants as a souvenir of his travels in Asia. Of his travels in distant lands and of a lifetime are also the figures carved in an exotic wood or the radios of the time in which he distributed the newspaper in the Fleet St of London. A house that is not finished, one that is lived and the owner gives it a sense, an atmosphere of its own. We use natural and traditional materials from the area: ceramic, lime or wood. We face the challenge of executing a low-cost architecture committed to the place we think has served to solve problems and to discover a new corner in a neighborhood as vivid as this.  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Rafael Iniesta Nowell  Image Courtesy © Iniesta Nowell Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Iniesta Nowell Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Iniesta Nowell Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Iniesta Nowell Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Iniesta Nowell Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Iniesta Nowell Arquitectos
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