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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. Prague National Gallery Entrance Hall in Hradcanske Square, Prague, Czech Republic by Mateo ArquitecturaJune 4th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Mateo Arquitectura In the grounds of Prague Castle, among various palaces currently reused to house the National Gallery, the brief was to design a small building that provides an entrance to the museum complex. Two parallel surfaces organize what used to be an empty space without weighing it down: one forms the floor, the other the roof.  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula
 Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula The floor emerges as a surface layer of the earth, folding subtly over itself to adapt to minor differences in level and ease access to the neighbouring buildings. It is hard but it also conserves some of its organic nature, materialized in plants, earth and water.  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula The roof, the boundary that separates us from the sky, is a continuous sheet that does not quite touch the buildings around it, producing great skylights and generating an enigmatic interplay of reflections. An organic layer, topped with gravel, that marks the bounds of a secret garden.  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula The inner space is open, flexible, multiple and complex, as well as light filled. Its vertical limits are the existing façades, their only tectonicity expressed in the topography of the ground. The rest is light, reflections, and the dialogue, almost without touching, between roof and walls.  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula  Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula  Image Courtesy Mateo Arquitectura  Image Courtesy Mateo Arquitectura  Image Courtesy Mateo Arquitectura  Image Courtesy Mateo Arquitectura  Image Courtesy Mateo Arquitectura  Image Courtesy Mateo Arquitectura
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