This paper investigates the elementary statement of the “essential shelter” as fundamental archetype of construction during the 20th century. In particular the paper focus on the escola paulista design approach respect to this issue, which tested the constructive logic of the reinforced concrete in order to transfigure in a new material, this idea of the essential “shelter”. This is an aim very difficult to achieve because the concrete has not a well-defined identity but many facets. This implies that the designer has to prefigure the process of construction and the building site before proposing a shape of the building. It is a sort of structural design that deals with the art to mold the material in elements, organism and systems that have an expressive sense. The analysis starts from two structural categories (horizontal beampillars system on one-way or two-ways) to which corresponds a specific spatial character about the construction of the concrete shelter. Hence, one investigates the morphological evolution of the essential shelter from a domestic scale to the urban scale. If the shelter is, according to Giedion, “the main topic of the Modern architectural development” the paper identifies in two design of the escola paulista a morphological contribution to the issue of reinforced concrete “essential shelter”. In this respect, Francisco Petracco e Pedro Paulo de Melo Saraiva (1964) built the Clube XV in Santos, which adopted the structural layout corresponding to a “thrilitic system”, with the figurative idea of the “weft-ceiling”. Otherwise, the FAU building in Sao Paulo by Joao Baptista Vilanova Artigas referred to the idea of the “trabeated roof”, in which the figurative purpose is to build a “diaphragm-ceiling”. Through a comparative analysis, the paper identifies these two case studies, focusing on the technical, figurative, spatial and urban features.
Tectonics of the “essential shelter” in the escola paulista. The “diaphragm-ceiling” and the “weft-ceiling” in the constructive logic of reinforced concrete / Quadrato, Vito. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 63-74. (Intervento presentato al convegno 4th ISUFitaly International Conference tenutosi a Bari nel 26-28 Settembre 2018).
Tectonics of the “essential shelter” in the escola paulista. The “diaphragm-ceiling” and the “weft-ceiling” in the constructive logic of reinforced concrete
Vito Quadrato
2019-01-01
Abstract
This paper investigates the elementary statement of the “essential shelter” as fundamental archetype of construction during the 20th century. In particular the paper focus on the escola paulista design approach respect to this issue, which tested the constructive logic of the reinforced concrete in order to transfigure in a new material, this idea of the essential “shelter”. This is an aim very difficult to achieve because the concrete has not a well-defined identity but many facets. This implies that the designer has to prefigure the process of construction and the building site before proposing a shape of the building. It is a sort of structural design that deals with the art to mold the material in elements, organism and systems that have an expressive sense. The analysis starts from two structural categories (horizontal beampillars system on one-way or two-ways) to which corresponds a specific spatial character about the construction of the concrete shelter. Hence, one investigates the morphological evolution of the essential shelter from a domestic scale to the urban scale. If the shelter is, according to Giedion, “the main topic of the Modern architectural development” the paper identifies in two design of the escola paulista a morphological contribution to the issue of reinforced concrete “essential shelter”. In this respect, Francisco Petracco e Pedro Paulo de Melo Saraiva (1964) built the Clube XV in Santos, which adopted the structural layout corresponding to a “thrilitic system”, with the figurative idea of the “weft-ceiling”. Otherwise, the FAU building in Sao Paulo by Joao Baptista Vilanova Artigas referred to the idea of the “trabeated roof”, in which the figurative purpose is to build a “diaphragm-ceiling”. Through a comparative analysis, the paper identifies these two case studies, focusing on the technical, figurative, spatial and urban features.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
