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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. Laguna House in São Paulo, Brazil by AUÁ arquitetosJanuary 19th, 2020 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: AUÁ arquitetos The initial clients’ request for the house to be a chalet has worried us. How to design a house in face of such specific demand, based on a context that is so different from the Brazilian one? Our project’s approach does not seek to transpose images or references, it is always organized by reading contexts: physical, social, cultural, economic, natural. The solution was to scrutinize the meanings, affectivities, and expectations linked to the image of the chalet to build an adequate interpretation of these elements to the future residence’s context.  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio
 Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio Rusticity was the first element, which was related to the use of wood, stone and rough textures brought a desirable imperfection and some robustness to the spaces. The second one was the freedom’s sensation, connected to the idea of few walls or obstacles between the house and its exterior, associated with the typical chalet’s representation as an independent construction in the middle of a wide landscape or an open field. Finally, the last element was the roof as both the identity and unity of the building, as the house’s synthesis element.  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio All these elements and demands combined gave rise to the house’s architectural concept. Three separated blocks shelter the day-to-day residential program and are connected by a corridor that is integrated to circulation routes outside the house, and the latter also access the entrances of the house, one at each street that forms its corner. The corridor, once open, is part of the external areas and these areas are also part of the house. In this sense, the concern to bring gardens and green areas into the residence’s daily life guided how to distribute the blocks on the terrain.  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio The volume’s displacements between each other and in relation to the terrain were made to locate the bedrooms in a protected spot, away from the festive movement, besides creating an internal patio for the afternoon coffee, for the children’s play, for the dogs run. Both the patio and the leisure area are extensions of the social volume, generously open to it through its wooden doors and windows. This material that punctuates various spaces of the house, combined with the dark Portuguese stone and the rough cement coating in the walls give the house’s textures a raw aspect.  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio The unique metallic roof gives cohesion to the set of volumes and differs from the traditional chalet by adjusting its declivity and by widening its eaves, helping both to protect windows from inadequate sunlight and to integrate the house with the terrain. The residence is located at the terrain’s intermediate level and the withdrawn soil was used to create a garden slope that surrounds the bedrooms, and whose crest almost touches the metal beams that were extended from the roof structure: the desired privacy does not need walls. On the opposite side of the house, the beams’ extensions create a porch that, besides framing the access route from the street, is also a pergola for climbing plants that will reinforce the fundamental union of this house, between the natural environment and the built space.  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio  Image Courtesy © Vinicius Assencio
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