Laminar ceilings? Shell construction in the work of some masters of modern architecture
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https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2018.3820Palabras clave:
Masters, modern architecture, laminar, shell construction, folded plates, maestros, arquitectura moderna, cascarones, láminas plegadasResumen
Abstract
This contribution explores the constructive and formal potential of the laminar structures in the work of three prominent figures of Modern Architecture. Unlike the most memorable constructions of this type, the roof structures here considered are not the main and only protagonist element of the building. Conversely in these cases they have been designed as parts of the building more inconspicuous and integrated. The study excludes therefore the most important realizations and also more known, made by authors as Maillart, Candela, Isler, Torroja, Saarinen, Niemeyer, etc. which have been widely treated in the specialized literature. The paper is focused in architects as Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto and Louis Kahn, for whom the study of their approach to the laminar seems not to have been made adequately as a whole till now. Are important too, the considerations resulting from the comparative analysis, shedding some light on the idiosyncratic way in which this type of structures was adopted by each architect.
Resumen
En este artículo se explora el empleo realizado por tres figuras destacadas de la arquitectura moderna de la potencialidad formal y constructiva de las estructuras laminares. A diferencia de como ocurrió en la mayoría de las construcciones memorables de este tipo, la estructura de cubierta no es necesariamente el gran y único elemento protagonista, proyectándose más bien por el contrario, como partes del edificio más discretas e integradas. Se excluyen, por tanto, las realizaciones más importantes, pero también más conocidas, de autores como Maillart, Candela, Isler, Torroja, Saarinen, etc. ya ampliamente tratadas en la literatura dedicada al tema. Contrariamente, en este trabajo se centra la atención en arquitectos como Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Louis Kahn, cuya aproximación menos evidente a lo laminar entendemos que no ha sido en conjunto suficientemente tratada hasta ahora. Son importantes también las conclusiones derivadas de los análisis comparativos, las cuales arrojan alguna luz sobre las particulares formas en que se adoptó este tipo
de estructuras por cada arquitecto.
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