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Architect Amancio Williams proposed a roof set high in the buildings to leave a large space beneath it for air to be able to circulate. The hospitals were eventually left unbuilt, but this element took on an iconic dimension. Three years ago, in the city of Santa Fe (argentina), the provincial government inaugurated the El Molino complex.
Architect Amancio Williams proposed a roof set high in the buildings to leave a large space beneath it for air to be able to circulate. The hospitals were eventually left unbuilt, but this element took on an iconic dimension. Three years ago, in the city of Santa Fe (argentina), the provincial government inaugurated the El Molino complex.
Architect Amancio Williams proposed a roof set high in the buildings to leave a large space beneath it for air to be able to circulate. The hospitals were eventually left unbuilt, but this element took on an iconic dimension. Three years ago, in the city of Santa Fe (argentina), the provincial government inaugurated the El Molino complex.
IN THE PERIOD 1948-1951 the Argen- tinian Amancio Williams designed three hospitals that were to be built in a subtropical climate of intense sun and rain. He proposed a roof set high in the buildings in order to leave a large space beneath it for air to be able to circulate, ensuring the protection of environmental fac- tors by means of an artificial forest. The structure involved an element he called a hollow vault, a double- curve sheet of reinforced concrete which on plan was square at the perimeter and circular at the center (coinciding with the column, which also serves to release rainwater). The thin shell, six centimeters thick at the perimeter, derived its resistance from its form, and in the absence of scientific calculation methods, ap- proximations were undertaken with the help of scale models and loads verified by the Italian engineer Gi- ulio Pizzetti, in consultation with Pier Luigi Nervi. The hospitals were eventually left unbuilt, but this element took on an iconic dimension. Though it had been conceived for certain conditions, the product took on a worth of its own, universal and reproducible. Wil- liams used it in subsequent projects that were never carried out either, but in 1963, in an exhibition pavil- ion, he was able to see two of these pieces materialized before they were demolished soon after completion. As a tribute to the architect, a pair of them were executed and can still be visited on the coast of the River Plate, loaded with symbolism. Three years ago, in 2010, in the city of Santa Fe (Argentina), the provincial government inaugurated the El Molino complex. A cultural factory set on abandoned industrial structures, the project created a public square that was partly cov- ered with thirteen hollow vaults separated from one another. In this case (unlike in the previous occaa- sion, where wooden formworks were used), the structures (with 11 meter sides and rising 12 meters) were built with PRFV molds divided into eight sections. To construct them, 10-me- ter-high platforms were raised, and the molds were installed on these, transferring them to the next posi- tions as they were removed from the formworks. In this manner an archi- tectural element was materialized that in itself was an important piece in the representation of the modern architectutre of Argentina. Foresta artificial The Vaults of Amancio Williams Entre 1948 y 1951 Amancio Williams proyect tres hospitales para ser cons- truidos en un clima subtropical caluro- so, con un sol fuerte y lluvias intensas. Su propuesta fue disponer un techo alto por encima, dejando una genero- sa circulacin de aire y asegurando la proteccin de los factores ambientales por medio de una foresta artificial. El elemento estructural era una pieza a la que llam bveda cscara, una lmina de hormign armado de doble curvatura, de planta cuadrada en el permetro y circular en el centro (en coincidencia con la columna que, a su vez, hace de descarga pluvial). La del- gada cscara, de seis centmetros de espesor en los bordes, lograba resis- tencia por forma y, ante la ausencia de mtodos cientficos para su clculo, se realizaron aproximaciones mediante modelos y cargas a escala verificadas por el ingeniero italiano Giulio Piz- zetti, y consultas a Pier Luigi Nervi. Los hospitales no se construyeron, pero este elemento cobr dimensin icnica. Si bien se haba originado para unas condiciones concretas, era un producto con valores propios, uni- versal y reproducible. Williams lo utiliz en proyectos posteriores que tampoco se realizaron, y en 1963, en un pabelln de exposiciones, pudo ver materializadas dos de estas piezas, de- molidas al poco tiempo. Como home- naje al arquitecto, se realiz un par que persiste en la costa del Ro de la Plata, una solucin cargada de simbolismo. En 2010 el gobierno provincial inaugur en la ciudad de Santa Fe (Argentina) el complejo El Molino- Fbrica cultural, un proyecto montado sobre estructuras industriales abando- nadas en el que se concibi una plaza pblica cubierta parcialmente con trece de estas bvedas cscaras se- paradas entre s. En esta oportunidad (a diferencia de las anteriores en que se utilizaron encofrados de madera) las estructuras (de 11 metros de lado y 12 de alto) fueron construidas con moldes de PRFV divididos en ocho secciones. Para realizarlas se levanta- ron plataformas a 10 metros de altura sobre las que se instalaron los moldes a pares, trasladndolos hacia las po- siciones siguientes a medida que se iban desencofrando. Con ello se ma- terializa un elemento arquitectnico que, en s mismo, resulta una pieza fundamental en la representacin de la arquitectura moderna en Argentina. Luis Mller