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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. Casa Candelaria in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico by Cherem ArquitectosJanuary 16th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Cherem Arquitectos The new house is solved around courtyards which themselves contain an activity that represents the tension and the relationship between the functions of the volumes that surround it. Another key intention for the design development was the decision to use as constructive method rammed earth walls, with natural aggregates that allows the earth to become black toned that seeks the integration and mimicry with the environment where it was intended that the main element outside was the vegetation.  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías
 Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías As for the benefits that the use of rammed earth gives us, is the thermal storage because of the thickness of 50 CM, in a place of extreme weather, as San Miguel de Allende, it sought to achieve spaces that during the day could stay fresh and at night preserve the thermal gain they achieve during the day and radiate it into the interior, in order to create warm spaces. This strategy along with saving on the purchase and transfer of materials from distant places, make the construction time, cost and functional outcome to optimize in the best way possible.  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías Volumetrically the house solves each of the areas independently, creating blocks of black soil with predominance of solid and opening to the nature that surrounds the volumes through gaps that arise from the floor to a 2.44 M height where privacy and control of light is given by wooden blinds, revolving plates that generate an aperture and a total integration with the outdoor space.  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías Programmatically the project uproots in an area of 4 hectares and consists of a master house, the big house, another smaller houses, the guest house, a club house, the caretaker’s house and a jogging track 1KM long that unites and represents all the project itself, giving way along its route activities, contemplation and transit between the volumes that make up the hole house. The big house consists of 12 volumes that are organized around 2 large courtyards, dividing public and private areas of the house with 930 SQM and 630 SQM of outdoor areas between patios, terraces, pool and gardens and two interior corridors that weave the total volumes outwards.  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías The guesthouse consists of 4 volumes connected by a covered courtyard and 200 SQM of construction.The materials used in this project as key players are compacted soil walls, parota wood indoor and archaeological stone outdoor, accompanied lesser extent of concrete, blacksmithing and tile doors. In short, this house responds to Mexican Haciendas in contemporary time with an innovative and effective construction system.  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías  Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías
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