8/12/2019 Espacios_Catching Warm and Warmth

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Trapping warm and warmth.Fireplaces. The distinguished fire decoration that illuminates a place.

The freezing winter takes us, as real pilgrims, to cover ourselves in the candorof the fireplace.The heat that these traditional heating systems give us in the less favorable climatic seasonscomes joined with pleasant sensations of an enjoyable wellbeing. The chimneys or logfireplaces not only have the function of warming up a room; they also can be considered usobjects of the most exuisite design.

!e always have to evaluate very well the environment where the house or apartment is, inwhich we are going to build the fireplace. This is because there are several factors that we haveto consider in the construction of the fireplace" the weather, the orientation of the house in whichis going to be built, the uality of the walls materials, the isolation and, mainly, how we are goingto use it. These factors can considerably impinge in the behavior and heating function of theobject.

#ears ago, the location of the fireplace was in the center of the living room. $s a decorativemain point, all the attention was directed towards the fireplace. %ictorian style, $rt &ouveau, $rt'eco, coated in marble made it a sculptural object. &owadays, the fireplace left its traditionalplace, to escape and be installed itself in fewer common rooms, such as bedrooms, bathrooms,or in specially designed places for the catching fire of the chimney.

(n bedrooms they are usually located in front of the main bed, the rest joined with the intensecolors of the fire, is a double rest. )athrooms have much more importance in the houses, theycan be bigger with a relaxing place in it, and it is there where the fireplace is accompanying thejacuzzi. This way we can enjoy a bath next to the heat of the fireplace. )ut the enchantment forthis object makes us wanting to design a special central place for it. &ext to a chaise longueand a wool craft carpet, we create a room that covers us as a shelter for the body and soul.

For the contemporary styles, in the present days, it is advisable to use a design of clean andgeometrical lines, perfectly integrated and combined, from the visual, with the rest of the place.!ith the own design of the fireplace we have to give importance to the place where we aregoing to keep the logs, leaving them in a place where they can be seen as part of thedecoration. $t the same time, the fireplace continued moving on and went out of the house for

warming up a place that we only use in the summer, the gallery.

The simple lines are the ones that rule, making the chimney hide or standing it up. *ne of thetendencies is to +vanish the entrance of the fireplace. This can be done by mimetizandothisentrance inside the design of the wall, designing spaces for putting books or other objects. Thisway we can disguise the entrance of the fireplace making it as a cavity between the walls.-eeping the line, they stand up by covering the front side with noble materials such as stone,wood, texture plaster, metal sheet with oxidized treatment, polished concrete or anything ourarchitect recommends us.

They separate places and they are the central point in a room. They illuminate with their intensefire, creators of the perfect atmosphere for a reunion with friends and family. heltered underroof, its beautiful and warm company makes us enjoy the outside feeling a catching cheerful"

the one that the fire produces to make the watcher to fall in love and get acclimatized by it. Tosee how the outside is been covered of a burning coldness, the grey stormy sky and ourselvesin the inside, listening the crackle of the logs, going through the pages of a pleasant magazineor that book so enjoyable as the created habitat.

(nsert" /&ow the chimney has left its habitual place, to escape and settle in less0commonatmospheres" bedrooms, bathrooms or alternative spaces specially designed for the trappingfire of the home./