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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. Laxe House in Culleredo, Spain by Trespes.arquitectosDecember 9th, 2022 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Trespes.arquitectos The house is located in a 46 meters long parcel, with a width that goes from 7 to 9 meters. The natural ground rises from the East to the West and it has two buildings that sectorize and qualify the outdoor spaces left. The main building is set back from the street and it is arranged in two floors. The ground floor is the older one, built more tan 150 years ago and presenting 75 cm width stone load-bearing walls. Very altered, this is where the living room and the kitchen can be found. The top floor, where the bedrooms are located, comes from a later intervention. This building is fully adapted to the topography, which results in a 36 cm jump on the middle of the ground floor.  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto
 Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto There is a shared space with the adjoining house at the back of the dwelling (the eira). At the end of it, there can be found a storage space (the alpendre). Lastly, there’s a vegetable garden with a lemon and an orange tree at the foot of the hórreo, evoking its past. It is conected with the main road through a right of way. The intervention creates and habitable ground floor, composed by the main building’s ground floor, the eira and the alpendre. Accessibility is resolved by the entrance patio, where there can be found a quick access through an staircase and a ramp, both of which define a space that can be used for parking.  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto Clients stated their priorities from the beggining: to preserve and value the existing building. The project adapts to those limits while growing, for the house expands upwards by locating two bedrooms in the first floor and another one in the attic. In order to fit the third bedroom,the bathroom height is reduced to 2.20 m, resulting in bigger volume bedrooms. Vertical movement is resolved by single-flight stairs and in the first floor there’s a big 5 meter long desk attached to it. The attic never reaches the facade, letting light through and generating a big conection space through the bedroom’s antechambers. At the end of the path there is a net, intended for reading while watching the sky through the roof’s perforation. The alpendre, situated in the backyard, is cleaned and improved by building a wooden lattice facade. The big front is composed by two similar sized parts: the fixed one, where the access door is located, and the movable one, which runs over the fixed one and opens up the space. Inside it you can find the celebration space, the laundry room, a bathroom and a storage space.  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © Iván Casal Nieto  Image Courtesy © trespes.arquitectos  Image Courtesy © trespes.arquitectos  Image Courtesy © trespes.arquitectos  Image Courtesy © trespes.arquitectos
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