CATEDRAL DE SANTA MARIA
Pier Luigi Nervi
San Francisco.California.Estados Unidos.1965
The Cathedral is a feat of structural engineering,where even a single square,the cathedral ceiling rises four parabolic hyperboloid,giving an apparent weightlessness their vertical separation between the floor and each side partition. Four towers rise the dome,where its stained glass windows separate the different parabolic hyperboloids the nave giving a feeling of lack of effort.
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Exterior view of the house
CASA REUTTER
Mathias Klotz
Cachagua.Chile.1998
The house Reutter is the contemporary version of a cabin in the individual volumes arboles.Consta two airborne,where the largest wood and glass houses comunes.y stays the smallest copper a closed box, enclosing the bedrooms. On the other hand, a gateway 30 m road connects the roof, overlooking the sea, giving the feeling of living amongst nature, between trees .
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Every Luque
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Casa.Cátedra Flats Garcia Calvo
View from the street
Museum of Contemporary Art
Kazuyo Sejima y Ryue Nishizawa. SANAA
Bowery. NY. USA. 2007
The building 54 meters resembles a stack of seven boxes, one on other,”balanced unsteadily”. To create a building that would meet the regulations imposed and does not look like a monolithic box, dark without aeration, SANAA key elements of the program assigned to each of the seven cases that compose the building, then grouped vertically in a pattern of circulation and use requirements. This allowed creating a vertical internal structural heart, connecting all floors and articulates each other. After traveling and setbacks occurred between each box to create open spaces that are interconnected.
Photography: wenharch
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Exterior facade of the building in its location on the street 43 in New York
Ford Foundation
Kevin Roche y John Dinkeloo
Dan Kiley (landscaping)
320 East 43rd Street, Manhattan
NY. USA, 1967
Kevin Roche drift represents monumental architecture in the late modernism and modern representation of large American corporations in their own administrative buildings.
The headquarters of
Ford Foundation introduces the concept of greenhouse landscaped atrium that occupies the twelve heights as a way to generate a system for
control environmental quality office space. The cubic volume granite coated establishes a very correct and straightforward with the environment in which is located.
Photography: Ezra Stoller
Playground in the space occupied by the intervention
PLAZA ROJA DE ST GALLEN
Pipilotti Rist and Carlos Martinez
Raiffeisenplatz, Bleicheli. St. Gallen, Switzerland. 2005
This video artist has been characterized by a differentiated view that rests on the claim of femininity and provocation.
In Red Square in Saint Gallen build a surreal cityscape supported the massive use of red vermilion, the definition of silhouettes of everyday elements integrated under a common soft rug unifies and removes part of the city of its traditional format. The addition of signals and lamps shaped cloud road just transformed this space into a friendly place, female, almost domestic.
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Plano summary of the draft reform and expansion of the city around
REFORM PLAN AND WIDENING OF BARCELONA
Ildefonso Cerdá
Barcelona, Spain. 1859
The General Theory of Urbanization would propose Ildefonso Cerda is the culmination of an egalitarian conception of the city in which people prioritize, the hygiene and rational function in the space of the new city.
Finally, integration of rural and vegetation, with equipment and services needed would lead to the realization of the urban utopia this visionary engineer who led the widening executed in the city of Barcelona.
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JARDIN ODETTE MONTEIRO
Roberto Burle Marx
Saw the bodies.
Petropolis, Brasil.1948
The current Monteiro Odette residence Finance Marambaia-straps where Roberto Burle Marx was responsible for its clearance. The project retained the existing topography, which only model the ground to allow water course fed an artificial lake located in front of the house. This lake serves as a mirror of the surrounding mountains and clouds in constant movement. The vegetation has been planted by dividing it by the water or in solid pictorial.
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Exterior view of the restaurant
SPRINGS RESTAURANT
Félix Candela
Xochimilco, Mexico City. Mexico, 1958
The restaurant is proposed to accommodate around 1000 people in a large room consisting of four equal hyperbolic paraboloid,curves in which the outer edges are hyperbolas. The result is a kind of water lily with near 42 m in diameter,having a height of 8.25 m. Under the dome is the room that houses a restaurant with tables and chairs on the part where the wedges are raised to make way for the metal cabinet work.
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Every Luque
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Interior View of Housing
CASA GILARDI
Luis Barragán
Tacubaya. Mexico DF.1976
In a long narrow field of 10×36 meters, Barragan three dividing walls, their 80 year-old makes his last work. The small but powerful volume rose defends the street and poured into, decomposed into the small courtyard, formed both by the front volume (services, dormitories) as for the rear (living room-pool) both linked by a corridor magic. All aquello forms a courtyard surrounding a tree hermoso, which should be respected as a condition of the owner, that stands with their branches or flowers canvas high monastic.
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CHURCH IN ATLANTIS
Eladio Dieste
Atlantida.Uruguay. 1958
Also known as the Church of Christ the Worker, the architect expressed his experiments carried out with the brick sheet, but also strove to build an architectural language away from established codes around the technological possibilities of the developed. He designed a rectangular ship 30 meters long 16 wide, cover 19 light meters in their wider sectors. The wavy line of the cover is repeated and amplified in the surprising side walls, constructed as a series of conoides seven meters high.
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