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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. Gallarda House in Almería, Spain by José Francisco García-Sánchez, architectoFebruary 3rd, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: José Francisco García-Sánchez, architecto «Las Negras» is a small town in Níjar, Almeria (Spain), with fishing tradition. The settlement is situated betwen a cape called «El Puntón» and the «Cerro Negro» (black mountain) cliff: emblem, icon and, surely, town´s origin. The Gallarda House, is a holiday residence that, probably, it will end up becoming the permanent residence of a young couple with an intense social life. It is a house of ample dimensions in its public area —living and dining room— and it is always connected with the outdoor area: terraced plot, where it will be planted pine tree, as much as the pool deck. Therefore, it proposed a life of simple acts, without sacrifice the daily pleasures: water a plants, sit to read under a tree or dive into the water. The Mediterranean architecture was always that simple white frame, sometimes invisible which man comes to happiness almost without realizing it.  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto
 Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto The Gallarda house are three houses. C1. The transparent house. It is made of glass and it is shaded. It is the place to be. It is lived participating of the landscape and the sea. This house extends to the pool deck; also to the garden. The Gallarda house extends to the sea. C2. The hole house. It is a house of service. It is concrete material and belongs to the Earth. C3. The white house. It is lime, opaque and air. It is close to heaven: there only to sleep and dream  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto LANDSCAPE. No doubt: the landscape is more intense, when between us and him there is an object. The work of Richard Long as much as the drawing of Mies Van der Rohe for the Resor House insists on that idea. Gallarda House doesn´t give up the structure. In the same way, the Nike temple on the Acropolis or Luigi Figini with his Italian home, shows the column as a success.  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto TOPOGRAPHY. The Gallarda House is situated on top of the plot, in the place where the views of the Mediterranean Sea, the village of Las Negras and Cerro Black are sharper. Thus, on the one hand the volume of the house is oriented looking for the best views; and on the other, settling in its larger side to the topography. Gallarda House gives an austere, effective and definitive answer to the “place”; as well as the programmatic client requests.  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto UNDERGROUND. The Gallarda house is heir to a tradition of Mediterranean houses: whitewashed volumes white whose windows-either are protected from direct radiation of the sun due to their small size or their setback, avoiding the annoying greenhouse effect that happens when direct sun light on the glass surfaces. The Mediterranean tradition requires semi-buried houses, therefore fresh.  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto About José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto José Francisco García-Sánchez. (Almería, 1983). Architect by E.T.S. de Arquitectura de Granada and MPAA (Master in Advanced Architectural Design) by E.T.S de Arquitectura of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. PhD candidate in the Department of Architectural Projects. Assistant supply teacher of Architectural Projects at the E.T.S. de Arquitectura e Ingeniería de la Edificación of Universidad Politécnia de Cartagena (2010-2015). He is member of the IEA (Research Institute from Almeria), CECEL, CSIC in the Department of Geography and Planning. Speaker at several International Conferences and author of many research paper in specialized publications and books. Contest coordinator Iberian Pladur and secretary of the Jury at local phase, and member of the jury in its Iberian phase. Principal investigator at Research Projects financed. Research Grants: pre-PhD (2010-2014), Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad (2010), Foundación Eduarda Justo (2014), Menéndez Pelayo International University (2014), collboration grant Universidad de Granada (2003). His works and projects have been exhibited: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos of Madrid, Almeria and Granada, International Fair Cevisama (Valencia), Alfredo Kraus Cultural Centre (Madrid), Rectorado of the Hospital Real (Granada), E.T.S. de Arquitectura (Madrid), IFEMA (Madrid), Exhibition Centre (Bilbao) and Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires (Argentina) .  Image Courtesy © José Francisco García-Sánchez, arquitecto He has been Alonso Cano Architecture Prize (2007) and Honorable Mention in the Iberian Pladur Award (2007) and First Prize in its edition of the University of Granada. Second prize in the Polanco Enri Awards Foundation (2007). Finalist in the Competition for the construction of an ephemeral Pavilion in San Sebastián / Donostia (2015). Selected in the VI National Contest of Young Architects (2006). And his work, the Gallarda House, was selected in VI Enor Architecture Awards (2014) and at the XV International Biennial of Architecture in Buenos Aires (2015).  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