Modernism_Valencia

=  = = The XAPA House  = Canovas Square || It is an architectural group __constituted by 8 buildings between party walls and interior illuminating patios__. __The group occupies a great island, almost half of a block__ that faces the Canovas del Castillo Square, Gran Marques del Turia Avenue, Conde Salvatierra and Gravador Esteve Streets. The project belongs to the architects Antonio Martorel Trilles, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell Panella, 1906-1911. This is the first __homogeneous block of housings__ of Valencia, it is, __in spite of the different authorship, a design unit.__ __The organization of the balconies determines a horizontal composition.__ The group is finished off by __a serpentine element of floral decoration that reinforces its unit and its horizontality__. __This horizontality is only interrupted in the bevels (chamfers), in the prevalence of the vertical rhythms__ because of the ends and the appearance of terraces and balconies of semicircular and triangular plant. __The lobbies and the stairways have different interior treatments, alternating the lining between ceramic and marble__. The homogeneous treatment of the ground plant and the mezzanine emphasizes, even more, the importance of the main floor. __The coalition of floral and geometric elements seems to indicate a desire to synthesize formal aspects of the Art Nouveau __ and of the Austrian Secession, although the elements belonging to the first type are the ones which carry more importance in the group. For example, the building has a serpentine element of floral decoration which I found really interesting. YES! J <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';"> Has I told you before, I am reading about the Xapa House. In these building the coalition of floral and geometric elements indicate the presence of Art Nouveau. Especially the floral elements remind me to the ones made by the greatest modernist in Europe. <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">What have you found of interest about your building? <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">By the way, which building are you investigating? <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Really? How are those? <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">For me, one of the most interesting things about the xapa house is that it was built by a group of architects (Antonio Martorel Trilles, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell Panella). <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">The Xapa House is actually constituted by 8 buildings between party walls and interior patios. In spite of the different authorship, the design of the building is homogeneous. <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">The project belongs to the architects Antonio Martorel Trilles, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell Panella, 1906-1911. This is the first __homogeneous block of housings__ of Valencia, it is, __in spite of the different authorship, a design unit.__ __The organization of the balconies determines a horizontal composition.__ <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">The group is finished off by __a serpentine element of floral decoration that reinforces its unit and its horizontality__. __This horizontality is only interrupted in the bevels (chamfers), in the prevalence of the vertical rhythms__ because of the ends and the appearance of terraces and balconies of semicircular and triangular plant. __The lobbies and the stairways have different interior treatments, alternating the lining between ceramic and marble__. The homogeneous treatment of the ground plant and the mezzanine emphasizes, even more, the importance of the main floor. <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">The coalition of floral and geometric elements seems to indicate a desire to synthesize formal aspects of the Art Nouveau __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';"> and of the Austrian Secession, although the elements belonging to the first type are the ones which carry more importance in the group. ||
 * <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">It is an architectural group __constituted by 8 buildings between party walls and interior illuminating patios__. __The group occupies a great island, almost half of a block__ that faces the Canovas del Castillo Square, Gran Marques del Turia Avenue, Conde Salvatierra and Gravador Esteve Streets.
 * <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">It is an architectural group __constituted by 8 buildings between party walls and interior illuminating patios__. __The group occupies a great island, almost half of a block__ that faces the Canovas del Castillo Square, Gran Marques del Turia Avenue, Conde Salvatierra and Gravador Esteve Streets.