5.-+Modernism-Valencia

 __//**THE COLON MARKET:**//__



 The beautiful modernist building was constructed between 1913 and 1917, occupying the site of the old gas factory. There was to be no haggling over costs, and it was budgeted at 900.000 pesetas. The project was awarded to Francisco Mora

 Berenguer, who was to write: “A market should be an open marketplace, beautiful to the degree that it is compatible with the economy, so that it is not seen reduced to a simple set-up of steel to keep the rain out. It is a building which, as an architectonic creation, should provide adornment to the city, and should be enjoyable for those who have to spend their time there. We should therefore try to make the form as aesthetic as possible”.




 * //__APARTAMENT BUILDING 5 AND 6: __//**

Building that belongs to the modernist historicism, with neo-gothic character. It was built following the project of the architect José Manuel Cortina Perez.
 * //__APARTAMENT BUILDING 5: __//**

The facade has an axis of central symmetry and a number of holes that varies according to the height. The mezzanine is vertically integrated to the ground plant, forming a basement with a veneer imitating the back of a seat. The second plant is emphasized with a balcony of wrought iron over brackets. The second and third floor form the central body with a brick treatment. The last plant is solved like a loggia with Gothic arches finished off with a simple cornice with cresting.



**//__APARTAMENT BUILDING 6:__//**

Building projected by Javier Goerlich Lleó, in 1914, with ornamental elements that vaguely remind the Austrian Secession.

The access and disposition of the façade are in accordance to the axis of central symmetry. We can differentiate three bays separated by pilasters, crowned by pylons, which give a vertical composition to the façade.

The holes on the ground plant and mezzanine are vertically joined. The main floor is enhanced with balconies, being the central one very wide and leaning on caryatids. On the upper part of the façade, there is a central turret, with cornices, supported by iron ancones on the laterals. The decoration consists of garlands on the columns and a hor lower bay.



**//__THE SANCHO HOUSE:__//**      Its author was Manuel Peris Ferrando, with the collaboration of the sculptor Julio Real. It is located in the Square of The Almunia, in a urbanistic complex of great beauty framed by the Door of the Palace of the Cathedral, the Palacio Arzobispal and the Basilica of the Virgen de los Desamparados. Their entwined roots are the base, and the flowered knobs, the capitals, an entire medievalist ornamentation. Sinuous vegetable forms are also present in the shelves, balconies and crowning. The building is ordered in five plants, all of them group the openings by vertical segments and not by floors. In the main body we can see different windows and balconies perfectly differentiated from the lateral, which are finished off by a gable-wall or superior triangle in which we can read the year of its construction, 1906, and the interlaced initials "A" and "S" To each side of the central piece, there is a series of two pieces perfectly joined to each other by double arches. We also find Romanic reminiscences in these Gothic arches in the moldings of the balustrades.. The posterior facade that faces the Archbishop's square, is profusely adorned on celestial blue, and the medieval elements, that so much pleases Peris, are also prevailing here. The entablature and crowning of the building offers the profile with more personality on the facade, in a conception that reminds the Austrian Secession, with a great containment and elegance.

**//__THE CABAÑAL HOUSE: __//**

The opportunity to take a look at a popular and local modernism, for the materials used and the decorative themes, is offered on a walk through El Cabañal. A neighborhood to walk around exploring houses, mostly single family dwellings, not free-standing (party walls) but lined up in blocks, with very narrow façades and a lot of depth, but houses in which the people of the area reinterpreted the cultural architectonic movement, taking advantage of the fragmentation of enameled bricks, broken up on purpose, or utilizing waste material rescued from gullies near the factories. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The simple cabins ( what gave the area its name), many with the typical forms of " barrack ", became one-plant single family houses with a central patio to keep the fishing utensils. The language of these constructions is influenced by the learned works of the directing class, but with their own shadings that transformed them into true creations. They not only adopted the Secessionist roses and the geometric repertoire, but enriched the ornamentation with Egyptian figures, vases, garlands and flowers like those obtained with cross-stitched point, and also a great variety of checkerboard designs. The care of the handmade work and the lack of aesthetic virtuosities are the elements of the popular art that stay in these constructions. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The modernist influence usually impacts in the ornamentation. The tiles that totally cover the facades, traditional in the XIX century, acquire designs of a great thematic variation, and next to unique motives they mix those typical of modernism: Art Nouveau, Secessionism, and some Historicism. The façades show the years in which they were built or decorated, 1909, 1915, 1919, etc.