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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. Galeria Mário Sequeira in Braga, Portugal by José Manuel Carvalho AraújoJune 11th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: J M Carvalho Araújo Arquitectura e Design, S.A It can be concisely summarized the project to a gesture. The respect for the site, not in the sense of the landscape, but of the habits and attitudes inherent in the “feel “of the place become evident when inserting the building in an area where are cultivated the principles of identity of the surrounding environment and a strong sense of preservation.  Exterior View
A project of an art gallery, with the particularities and needs inherent to an area with specific uses and functions, allowing it to “live” underground, where it can perform all the requirements that it had proposed.  Exterior View The visual silence maintained on the surface increases the expectation of the observer before the duality of scale that he faces: nothing on the surface and much inside.  Open Space The growing scale of space imposed on the observer, as he is introduced into the building, stimulates him and enhances the contrasts of light, color, scale…  Exterior View To complement its elemental nature – the simplicity of the program – a room, were we created zones of access, circulation, which in addition to enriching the set, increases the “public” character of the building. The interior space, apparently closed, is open to the east side, establishing a visual relation with the outer space.  Exterior View  Exterior View  Exterior View  Exterior View  Exterior View  Interior View  Interior View  Interior View  Interior View  Interior View
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