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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. Alonso´s House in Zaragoza, Spain by Sergio Sebastián FrancoOctober 23rd, 2020 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Sergio Sebastián Franco This small house built in the second half of the last century belongs to the “Damán” group of housing units, declared an urban complex of interest. Located in the industrial area of the Zaragoza neighborhood of La Jota, it is one of the few groups that currently stands. Thus, it is proposed to recover the type of housing to adapt it to our days, harboring a new life, a new user, new uses in accordance with the spirit of the time, although without losing the essence of its initial identity. This is an example of rehabilitation and regeneration intervention in social housing.  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz
 Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz Based on the planned street layout, single-storey houses were built, like a very tight container, aligning itself to the public thoroughfare, fitting in between the party walls of the adjacent numbers and therefore leaving a rear space for a garden or corral. Before the intervention, it was clearly distributed in three practically tight bays perpendicular to the façade: the first contained the access, the bathroom, the kitchen and a gallery; the central one the living room and a bedroom; and in the third there was a place for two bedrooms with access from the living room, which acted as the centralizing element for circulation in the house.  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz The intervention is based on the initial structure of three bands but spatially reconfigures the continuity between them and their uses: the first bay contains the access, the kitchen area and the dining area that extends to the outside through a gallery- greenhouse and a stand that seeks to link the interior of the house with the rear garden, generating a space rich in visual and functional relationships both in the house and in the garden. The second bay is intended entirely for the living room, functioning as the heart of the house, complemented by a multitude of visual relationships with the rest of the rooms, which, far from being compartmentalized and isolated, are spatially integrated into it. The screening of the new metal structure that removes the original walls allows the game with filters that integrate or separate the spaces depending on the use that is assigned at any time to the room.  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz Finally, in the third bay the most private area of the house is located, containing the bedroom and a dressing room, both separated by a central piece that functions as a bathroom, and on which a new space for guests and a reading area takes place. The organization of the bathroom in independent pieces allows the use of the different sanitary devices without interference between several users, while expanding the scope of the toilet towards the rest of the house.  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz The comprehensive nature of the intervention has sought to preserve the exterior cladding and has fundamentally acted to improve its envelope, both constructively and energetically, while maintaining its original aesthetics to the exterior. The interior has sought to approach an absence of partitions, improving finishes, and giving the house a contemporary character. Each bay is read as a complete section of the original building, generating a more compressed space at the sides, but a greater height in the central area. The original load-bearing walls have been subjected to a virtuous and daring structural intervention that has allowed them to become permeable filters supported by light and small posts, generating spatial continuity in a longitudinal and transverse direction, thus making it possible to multiply and enhance the light and, ultimately, the ways of living the house.  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz  Image Courtesy © Irene Ruiz  Image Courtesy © Sergio Sebastián Franco  Image Courtesy © Sergio Sebastián Franco  Image Courtesy © Sergio Sebastián Franco  Image Courtesy © Sergio Sebastián Franco  Image Courtesy © Sergio Sebastián Franco
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