The different forms, the use of color on facades, the transparency and the natural light through the interior suggest uniqueness in its function, this is a project designed for Autonomous Artisan’s Houses by Steven Holl in the early 1980s.
1. Autonomous Artisans’ House, project, New York (Staten Island), Perspective,1980
2. Autonomous Artisans’ House, project, New York (Staten Island), Perspective, 1980
This was Frank Lloyd Wright’s last dream: the “city of the future” on Ellis Island, designed in 1959, where a former immigration center was dismantled in the second half of the 1950s.
Edoardo Gellner and Carlo Scarpa: La chiesa di Corte de Cadore
Here is how two architects in the 50′s collaborate in the design of a church. Edoardo Gellner and Carlo Scarpa designed ‘La chiesa di Corte de Cadore’. The evolution of drawings from the general plan to the details are a good example to realize the importance of a collaborative design process, where a graphic dialogue evolves from a plot of ideas to the progressive definition of a structural system by studying its sections, details and views with accurate.
These gorgeous drawings came from the idea, however through measure they got the detail for its construction.
Carlo Scarpa, Studi per l’altare maggiore. 1956
Edoardo Gellner, Lampada del Santissimo. Prospetto, vista dal basso e assonometria. 1958
Graphic Dialogue
Edoardo Gellner and Carlo Scarpa
Between 50s and 60s Gellner & Scarpa made a fantastic collaborative design for La chiesa di Corte de Cadore. Check it out.
Villa Girasole is still considered unusual, extraordinary and pioneer on sustainable design. You must know such envisioned design, built by its owner, engineer Angelo Invernizzi between 1929 and 1935, in Verona.
As an artificial sunflower, he created his own dream house which would rotate to ”maximize the health properties of the sun by rotating to follow it” and is basically mounted over a revolving system.
The Residência José da Silva Neto, designed by the Brazilian architect João da Gama Filgueiras Lima (Lelé), is an impressive concrete skeleton standing on only four massive supporting pillars from which the ceiling of the living space is suspended. In 2019, the architect Lutero Leme and his Studio Arquitécnika took the challenge to revitalize the aging villa and brought it up to date with the latest technologies.
João da Gama Filgueiras Lima (Lelé): Residência José da Silva Neto, Brasília, Brazil, 1973–1976
Paolo Portoghesi + Victor Gigliotti: Papanice House. 1966-1970.
This is Paolo Portoghesi and Victor Gigliotti’ s Papanice House designed by architect Paolo Portoghesi and engineer Victor Gigliotti in early 70s. A Magnificent manor house with great Baroque influence, with art deco and secessionist touches, enveloping elegance and rhythm.
As you can see on the diagram “The Matrix of Composition” you can see how curved lines flows beyond the building with a very unique language of composition.
This is a very atypical house with three levels, with one room per floor and a small attic. Portoghesi’s concept stands on his influence of Baroque style, it could be seen on the systematic use of the curved line on the modeling of the interior space but also in facades. The curvature of the perimeter walls which alternate between concave and convex formally characterizes the composition, the rythim of the entire skin flows with elegance also the interiors have strong art-deco reminiscences from color details to furniture.
Would like to see how this house got old through years. Certainly curved lines as strategy of design becomes a coherent aesthetic compromise between nature and culture inherited into history.
Image1,8. Geometric Diagram.The Matrix of Composition. Papanice House. Portoghesi and Gigliotti. Von Meiss, Pierre.,1989, Elements of Architecture: From Form to Place, Van Nostrand Reinhold, N.Y., figure21.
images 2-7. Roof plan, Cross Section, Main Floor Plan, Second Floor Plan, aerial view, facade view.: ROSSI, Piero Ostilio. Roma. Guida all'architettura moderna 1909-2011. Roma: Laterza, 2012. also NORBERG-SCHULZ, Christian. Paolo Portoghesi architetto. Milano: Skira, 2001
Paolo Portoghesi + Victor Gigliotti: Casa Papanice. 1966-1970.
From plenty beauty to decadence.
Sometime ago i was wondering how Casa Papanice will evolve as a manor house, does it will remains the same with different uses? does it has taking a good preservation process? so, i have news and facts about.. and the answer are sadly negative.
This is an attempt to show you how the importance of architecture’s preservation and maintainance of singular houses are. This is Casa Papanice, a very unique 70s Italian House designed by Paolo Portoghesi, as you can see in the image above Casa Papanice is actually in a deplorable state of conservation and essential elements of its facade where substituted.
The main problem propably right now Papanice House is actually another country legally, in this house lays the Jordan Embassy. But that fact should not exempt its inhabitants from the duty to keep the house.
We hope DOCOMOMO Italy and other Architectural Preservation Associations around the world could spread, help and save from decadence this unique architectural pearl.
If you need more info, here’s an article written by Paolo Boccacci at Republica Newspaper (IT) +
We’ll be observing how this case evolve, while time runs you can follow @Casapapanice at RRSS +
The Civilia project is a visionary and utopian ideal of what Britain’s settlements could be through the eyes of Ivor de Wolfe ( Hubert de Cronin Hastings’ pseudonym. First published as a June special edition of the Architectural Review in 1971, and later than year expanded into a book, the project presented as an attack on the concept of suburbia and “the uglification of the countryside”
Muchos hogares están experimentando cierta intensificación de usos en un mismo espacio, redescubriendo otros y flexibilizando los espacios infrautilizados mientras trabajan y conviven en cuarentena.
Para comprobar cómo se están adaptando las personas a esta forma de trabajo desde sus casas, hemos realizado una encuesta durante la primera quincena de abril a través de las redes sociales. En esta infografía desvelamos parte de los resultados con aspectos que nos llevan a entender la resiliencia de las personas ante la experiencia de trabajar desde casa.
El concepto parte de una sección del covid-19 adaptada a la resiliencia frente a la situación de confinamiento.
Si deseas que elaboremos una infografía como ésta basada en datos que estés recopilando escríbenos aquí
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Are you working on quarantine?
Many households are experiencing some intensification of uses in the same rooms, rediscovering spaces like terraces and courtyards in house and making underutilized rooms more flexible while working and living in quarantine.
To analize how people are adapting to this way of work from home we have conducted a survey during the first fortnight of April through social networks, through this infographic we reveal the aspects that lead us to understand people’s resilience through the experience of working from home.
The concept is part of a section of covid-19 adapted to our resilience due to the confinement situation.
If you want us to develop an infographic like this based on data, write us.
La mañana del 11 de Agosto de 2021 José Miguel de Prada Poole dejó este mundo. Su entrañable labor permanezca viva en todas las personas que aprendimos de él, su obra y enseñanza se divulgue a las nuevas generaciones de arquitectos, y su manera de hacer, de pensar y enseñar contribuya a la formacion de otros tantos. Descanse en paz.
R.I.P.
Años atrás poco se conocía de la obra de José Miguel de Prada Poole (Valladolid, 1938-2021) arquitecto español artífice de las estructuras neumáticas en España, sin embargo esta percepción cambió a raíz de una exposición monográfica llevada a cabo en Sevilla recientemente.
José Miguel de Prada Poole fue un pionero en su forma de concebir la arquitectura, el urbanisno y el diseño con la temprana introducción de sistemas bioclimaticos, potenciando el uso de estructuras ligeras y de materiales de menor coste extremadamente eficientes entre otros.
Cualquiera que haya pasado por las aulas de la ETSA de Madrid lo conocerá por sus clases de proyectos. A decir verdad, es de los pocos arquitectos (y profesores) que se podrían nombrar como verdaderos visionarios, que no se cansaba de investigar y producir proyectos innovadores para el hoy y el mañana.
El último contacto que tuve fue hace unos años en 2016, dio una conferencia en la que se hablaba de los problemas de la vivienda, de la crisis global y del boom de las nuevas generaciones de arquitectos estrella y el nuevo urbanismo entre otras cosas. Muy amenamente nos explicó con sus bocetos y dibujos_cálculos incluidos_ su visión de habitar fuera de la Tierra, diseñó una ciudad en el espacio, prefabricada, habitando en la órbita de la Tierra, algo así como una ciudad-dormitorio, con todas las necesidades propias de un “barrio extra-planetario”, con unas vistas maravillosas de la Tierra, a la cual solo acudiríamos para trabajar en naves espaciales como si fueran el transporte público del futuro. Una visión dentro de la ficción, pero en sus bocetos todo estaba muy claro. Nos dejó perplejos a todos, lo tenía todo pensado y más que le quedaba por investigar en ese camino.
Prada Poole fue un avanzado, un verdadero pionero en su tiempo, en sus planteamientos y en su capacidad por investigar sistemas radicales de trabajo y de vanguardia, con materiales inimaginables como el aire, sus investigaciones con los plásticos y los sistemas que ideó y construyó iban muy en concordancia con la de otros grandes de la arquitectura alrededor del mundo y al mismo tiempo, hablo de Archigram, Superstudio ó Frei Otto quienes también tenían como referente a Buckminster Fuller.
Los siguientes son algunos conceptos que Prada Poole definió, tienen su sustancia, te invito a compartirlo con tu entorno.
Muriendas
Término que adopta a las viviendas actuales como “muriendas”, lo explica al relacionar éstas con las hipotecas interminables que te acompañan la mayor parte de tu vida para pagarlas, casi como si fueran unas tumbas carísimas.
Edifusos
Llama a sus viviendas “edifusos” término inventado por él, lo define como un hogar capaz de crecer y/o ser ‘loncheado’, relacionado con la familia mecano.
Familia Mecano
Las viviendas que disenó están destinadas a un nuevo modelo de familia no estándar, que curiosamente en la actualidad van llenando las ciudades. Éstas las define como las “familias mecano” donde cada individuo debía tener su propio espacio pudiendo sumarse o separarse de otros según lo desee provocando con el paso del tiempo diversas combinaciones variables.
Una de las grandes preocupaciones que mantiene son las ciudades, sus componentes y el hábitat humano. Pensando en estos conceptos y en posibles ciudades futuras, de carácter nómada o no, podrás ver en las imágenes cinco ciudades que fue desarrollando con mayor o menor intensidad.
1y2-Ciudad Iceberg. Habitar los océanos y zonas gélidas, dentro de la ciencia ficción siempre se ha planteado como posibilidad.
3y4-Ciudad Instantánea. Para cualquier contexto y en cualquier lugar. Fue construida en Ibiza.
5-Ciudad en la grieta. Esos resquicios verticales que quedan por habitar, con viviendas agrupadas. Casi como asentamientos en el ultimo rincón del planeta aún no habitado.
6-Ciudad Eros. La ciudad interconectada formada por varias agrupaciones de unidades habitables, allí puedes ver reflejada la temporalidad, lo efímero, lo biológico y los tiempos líquidos.
7-Ciudad cúbica. También llamada la Jerusalén celeste. La describe según el libro del apocalipsis, una ciudad de 2200km de largo, ancho y alto. Lo que podría caber ahí dentro…
En todas ellas defiende la movilidad entendida como nomadismo, el escaso impacto en el territorio, la sostenibilidad para sus habitantes, la importancia en reducir el impacto ambiental y la búsqueda de sistemas eficientes para vivir.
Para conocer un poco mas sobre estas ciudades puedes encontrar una reseña en los artículos abajo referenciados.
*ultima hora: fallece un visionario, autor de la arquitectura hinchable en España, José Miguel De Prada Poole. +
Imágenes del archivo de José Miguel de Prada Poole
Žižkov Television Tower. Václav Aulický + Jiří Kozák
One of the most authentic TV towers ever built in Europe is Žižkov Television Tower in Prague. Designed in 1985 by architect Václav Aulický and structural engineer Jiří Kozák, built between 1985-1992, it began transmitting signal since1992 until 2012, year in which they switched to digital TV broadcasting and removed the old analogue broadcast equipment installing a datacenter on its free space.
The Structure
The tower stands 216 metres (709 feet) high, there’s no doubt is the tallest building in the skyline of Žižkov district and in the city of Prague. The structure of the tower is the key of its uniqueness, it is based on a triangle module whose corners rise in steel columns, consisting of three tubes with a double steel wall filled with concrete.
They support nine ‘pods’, organized in triades along three levels, and three decks for transmitting equipment. One of the three pillars extends considerably higher than the others, providing the necessary height for antennas. This particular combination gives its effect as a structure’s rocket and gantry appearance. In its time it was a unique technology, which authors have patented.
There are two elevators to transport passengers at a speed of 4 m/s. and a third one elevator works also as a service lift.
Foundations are 15 m. deep, consists on a circular concrete slab, 1,20m. (4 feet) thick and 30 meters diameter.
The Pods
Three of the pods, positioned directly beneath the decks at the top of the tower, are used for equipment related to the tower’s primary function and are inaccessible to the public. The remaining six pods are open to visitors, providing a panoramic view of Prague and the surrounding area. Altitude of the observatory is 93 m, the entire floor is dedicated to relaxation from where you can see Prague in its fullness. The hotel room altitude is 70 m and the lower one at 63 metres (207 feet) you’ll find a recently refurbished restaurant and café bar with a capacity for 180 people.
Babie Sculptures
Ten giant sculptures of babies created by leading Czech artist David Černý crawl all over the outside of the tower. According to his concept, the babies of an uncertain future would all have the same DNA and consequently they would all be equall, that’s why the babies are faceless, it sounds unbelievable but who knows.
Žižkov tower model
High-tech in the communist-era
This is an example of high-tech architecture at earlier stages built in communist-era in Central and Eastern Europe, although this tower was critized by its local inhabitants during its construction, since then till now the tower attracts a lot of visitors to enjoy the skyline in a city full of historical buildings.
More than 100 years ago at Bauhaus school a group of young creative souls have been shaping design as we know, between those students there were a bunch of such intelligent and talented women but unfortunately less known until now.
Those women also shaped furniture and product design introducing their own techniques, special treatments and finishes on materials through Bauhaus school, later some of them have worked toghether with the most knowledge Bauhaus Masters but also there were other women of the Bauhaus less known with remarkable work, we like to make a little homage to them and share with you these female references in architecture, design, art&crafts.
Alma Buscher designed toys that allowed children to imitate but also to unfold their own creativity. Her “Little Ship-Building Game” is still produced today.
Porträt Alma Siedhoff-Buscher / Foto: Atelier Hüttich-Oemler (Weimar), 1923, Reproduktion.
She was a graphic artist, typographer and photographer.
Stern and Rosenberg worked together they founded the photo and advertising studio ‘ringl+pit’ a successful duo in the advertising business in Berlin and quickly made a name for themselves in the advertising and art scenes with their ironical photomontages, which often questioned traditional images of women.
Her career flew through different ideological and cultural contexts. Color was essential to Bergner’s work, not simply because they provide different ways to articulate a medium, but also because they strengthen the work in a plastic sense. Later she married with Hannes Meyer and both have worked in architectural and industrial design works, although they did become involved in other fields.
Portrait of Irene Bayer / Photo: Grit Kallin-Fischer, 1927-28
Irene was the right hand of her husband, graphic designer Herbert Bayer. Her own photographs recorded everyday life at the Bauhaus school in Dessau since 1926.
Double portrait of Alfred and Gertrud Arndt, Probstzella (Dorfstraße) / Photo: Gertrud Arndt, 1928.
Gunta Stölzl,Gertrud and Alfred Arndt as the Arndts move out of their studio at the Bauhaus Dessau on 27 November 1927. Photo Credits: Erich Consemüller. Courtesy of Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design.
Images : Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Museum of Design. The Collection
Structure can be decisive in the configuration of architectural space, we should value structural constraints as design opportunities, when starting a project we love to research through nature behaviors that works as key of design process.
This is the case of “water lily pad” Wright experimented on this building in early 30s at Wisconsin.
Lets get a glimpse of Johnson Wax Building, certainly a Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece in which architecture experimented with organic concepts where natural light and open space are plenty combined in 1930′s.
Indeed, the most challenging space designed was the main great workroom 40 x 60 m. wide with 6 m. tall articulated by concrete dendriform columns with a base of only 23 centimeters in diameter that was widened to reach 5.5 meters in the upper part, which Wright called “water lily pad” capable of supporting six times the weight imposed upon them, a fact Wright had to demonstrate in order to obtain a building permit.
He conceived interior spaces whithout constrictions, this is a grateful solution for workers which want to feel the sense of freedom while working. as Wright described “..There you catch no sense of enclosure whatever at any angle, top or sides….Interior space comes free, you are not aware of any boxing in at all. Restricted space simply is not there. Right there where you’ve always experienced this interior constriction you take a look at the sky!” (1)
Wright defines architecture as “The great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists and creates according to the nature of man and his circumstances as they change. ” (2)
(1)—Frank Lloyd Wright. from Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland, ed. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas. p15.
(2) — Frank Lloyd Wright from Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland, ed. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas. p7.
Images through wikipedia, urbipedia, wikiarquitectura, archdaily, library of congress
Louis Kahn with fascinating Anne Tyng both explored in late 50s singular structural models for a tower design based on geometry with triangular mesh into facades, this supposed a visionary statement on architecture concept so valid in the currect times.
Here is a similar concept, a tower which combines modular homes with vertical farms, designed to be build with CLT in India: +
images from:
# 1-Architectural Review v.121 n.724 May 1957, 345 # 2-Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui v. 25 no. 55 Jul 1954, 11 #3-Perspecta 2 1953, 24 #4- Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui 102 Jun 1962, 5
We have restored a Nomos Table, one of the most authentic high-tech furniture system designed by Norman Foster in 1986 produced by Tecno.
“..The frame of the Nomos table is conceived as a rigid, zoomorphic skeleton. Like the other elements in the Nomos system, the table can be adapted to satisfy wide range of needs, at home and in the office.
The Nomos table’s striking appearance and refined design have made it one of the most recognisable products of international design in the Tecno catalogue.
The Nomos table differs from the other components of the Nomos system for the size of its tubular frame (25 mm instead of 30 mm), for the angled shape of its base and for the fact that its top is supported not by the usual structure but by dedicated castings. The top rests on suckers in the glass version and is screwed to the aluminium supports in wood top versions.The Nomos table can be assembled in two heights, 72 cm and 65 cm, simply by including or excluding spacers between the top and the supports..”
Sure you have heard about Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027. A modern architectural masterpiece that Le Corbusier couldn’t overcome. Eileen Gray practicing was full of ideas in that time were still new, her innovative design was to create_ as she said_ “a dwelling as a living organism” and the main idea aimed to get a home which grows from its furniture.
One curious thing you’ll see on the images above, is how the bed is the central piece of the living-room, and from which all furniture and finishes were designed by her accurately. She created a number of pieces of loose and built-in furniture. The storage became integrated with instalations, as the electrical fittings or radiators, the built-in furniture had different openings some loose furniture with adjustable heights and so on.
Such thinking expanded into the building, like the shutters allowing complex modulations of shadow and breeze or the small windows located to allow a view when lying down. Every detail in this house is architectural poetry, but those Corbu’s murals destroyed her esence but remains a proof of Corbu’s most obsesive personality and vanity. He adored this house
For some reason Gray was contrary to Corbusier, Eileen defended “a house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his emanation”. As some famous architectural critics said, “Eileen Gray brought essential qualities into building that other modernists lacked ”, RM.
Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish furniture designer and architect a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.
Morandi was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Unfortunately, today 14th, August, one of his most known infrastructures, the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, collapsed. Terrible news.
It’s time to remember and seriouly think about what happens when we find a lack of maintainance on infrastructures and buildings.. hard work we have to advice our clients and neighboors the importance of maintenance of our homes and on a large scale, our cities.
You must know the hole legacy of Morandi’s works as engineer :
Opere e progetti 1931 - Villino in viale Vaticano, Roma 1932 - Cinematografo Odescalchi, (poi Majestic), Roma (con V. Marchi) 1932 - Autorimessa Piccini, via delle Fornaci, Roma 1934 - Chiesa di Santa Barbara, Colleferro 1933/34 - Cinema Augustus, Corso Vittorio, Roma (con A. Lombardini) 1935 - Cementificio a Colleferro, Roma 1935/39 - Cinema-teatro Giulio Cesare con soprastante edificio, viale Giulio Cesare, Roma 1938 - Cinema-Teatro Quattro Fontane, in via Quattro Fontane, Roma (intervento di restauro) 1941/49 - Palazzina in via delle Terme Daciane, Roma 1945 - Ponte San Giorgio sul fiume Liri, Frosinone 1946 - Cinematografo Astoria in via Stoppani, Roma 1947 - Cinematografo Alcyone, via Lago di Lesina, Roma (con G. Gandolfi) 1947/48 - Cinematografo Bologna, via Stamira a Roma 1948 - Centrale termoelettrica S.R.E. a San Paolo, Roma 1949 - Ponte a travata sull'Elsa, Canneto 1949/50 - Ponte detto del “Grillo” sul Tevere, Roma 1950 - Palazzina in via Martelli, Roma 1950 - Auditorium dell'Accademia Musicale di Santa Cecilia, Via Flaminia, Roma (con C. Carrara, P. Baruffi, progetto); 1950/54 - Stabilimento per la produzione delle fibre sintetiche al Castellaccio, presso Anagni, Frosinone 1950/51 - Fabbrica di fiammiferi a Zaule, Trieste 1951/52 - Centrale termoelettrica a Civitavecchia, Roma (con l'Ufficio Tecnico dell'Impresa Mantelli di Genova,) 1952 - Ponte di Giunture sul Liri, Sant'Apollinare, Frosinone 1952 - Ponte sull'Arno tra Empoli e Spicchio di Vinci, inaugurato nel 1954 1952/54 - Ponte Morandi, passerella pedonale sul torrente Lussia nella valle dell'Edron, a Vagli di Sotto in Alta Garfagnana, Lucca 1953 - Ponte sul Liri a Sora, Frosinone 1953 - Autorimessa a Firenze 1953/55 - Rafforzamento statico di un'ala dell'arena di Verona 1953/54 - Ponte sullo Storms River, Elizabethville, Sudafrica 1953/55 - Cementificio a Scafa San Valentino, Pescara 1954 - Ponte “Gornalunga”, Enna 1954 - Ponte sul Cerami, Galliano Castelferrato, Enna 1954 - Centrale termoelettrica S.R.E. (Società Romana Elettricità), Fiumicino, Roma 1954/56 - Ponte Amerigo Vespucci sul fiume Arno, Firenze (con G. e P. Gori, F. Nerli) 1954/57 - Cinema teatro Maestoso con soprastante edificio per abitazioni, via Appia Nuova, Roma 1954/58 - Centrale termoelettrica Santa Barbara, Cavriglia, Arezzo 1955/57 - Centro studi e stabilimenti Bombrini,Parodi-Delfino a Colleferro, Roma 1956/57 - Mercato coperto “Metronio”, via Magna Grecia, Roma 1957 - Cementificio Calci e Cementi a Savignano sul Panaro, Modena 1957 - Ponte sul canale navigabile di Fiumicino sulla strada Ostia- Fiumicino, Roma 1957 - Ponte sul Sambro per l'Autostrada Firenze-Bologna 1957 - Ponte “General Rafael Urdaneta” sulla laguna di Maracaibo, Venezuela 1957 - Viadotto sul Setta presso “La Quercia”, Bologna, per l'Autostrada Firenze-Bologna 1957/60 - Terminal dell'Aeroporto Internazionale Leonardo da Vinci, Fiumicino, Roma (con A. Luccichenti, V. Monaco, A. Zavitteri, realizzato) 1957/62 - Centrale elettronucleare Garigliano, Minturno, Latina 1958/59 - Quinto padiglione della Torino Esposizioni al Parco del Valentino, Torino 1958/60 - Cavalcavia della via Olimpica su Corso di Francia, Roma 1958/61 - Viadotto sul Fiumarella, Catanzaro 1959 - Palazzo del lavoro, Torino (con G. Gambetti, A. Origlia D'Isola, progetto) 1959/60 - Salone dell'Automobile, Torino 1959/62 - Palazzo degli Uffici Comunali di Carrara 1959/64 - Centrale termoelettrica Selt Valdarno, Marzotto, Livorno 1960 - Ponte sul Columbia River, Canada (con Choukalos, Woodburn e Mckenzie Ldt) 1960/61 - Sollevamento dei templi egizi di Abu Simbel nell'Alto Egitto (con G. Colonnetti, P. Gazzola, progetto) 1960/62 - Ponte “G. Capograssi”, Sulmona, L'Aquila, 1960/64 - Viadotto sul torrente Polcevera e sul parco ferroviario a Genova, autostrada Genova-Savona 1960/65 - Centrale termoelettrica “Marzocco”, Livorno 1961 - Aviorimessa DC8 e officine Alitalia nell'Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci a Fiumicino, Roma (con A. Luccichenti, V. Monaco, A. Zavitteri) 1961 - Monorotaia Alweg per l'Esposizione Italia ‘61 a Torino 1961/62 - Centrale termoelettrica Torre Valdaliga, Civitavecchia, Roma (con M. Magistrelli) 1962 - Ponte a Göteborg, Svezia 1962/63 - Cementificio Calci e Cementi di Segni a Colleferro, Roma 1962/64 - Ponte sul Lago di Paola, Sabaudia, Latina 1963/67 - Albergo-ristorante “Alfonso al Faro”, a San Felice Circeo, Latina (con E. Moretti) 1963/67 - Viadotto sull'ansa del Tevere nel tratto di Autostrada Roma-Aeroporto di Fiumicino presso la Magliana, Roma, 1964 - Autorimessa Zeppieri a Frosinone 1964/67 - Centrale termoelettrica detta del Bastardo, Foligno, Perugia 1964/68 - Ponti sul rio Guayas presso Guayaquil, Ecuador 1965/66 - Viadotto sul Favazzina presso Scilla, Reggio Calabria, per l'autostrada Salerno-Reggio Calabria
Viadotto di Wadi el Kuf presso Beida, Libia 1965/71 - Ponte sul Wadi al-Kuf presso Beida, Libia (con A. Rinelli, A. U. Manella, O. Scrosky) 1965/74 - Consolidamento della Torre pendente di Pisa (progetto) 1966 - Villa a Salto di Fondi, Latina (con Elena Moretti) 1966/67 - Vasche navali in via Vallerano, Roma 1966/68 - Viadotto Scirò per l'Autostrada Salerno-Reggio Calabria 1967/70 - Studi per l'asse attrezzato a Roma (con V. Delleani, M. Fiorentino, F. e L. Passarelli, L. Quaroni, B. Zevi, - Studio Asse - progetto) 1967 - Viadotto sul Lontrano dell'Autostrada Salerno-Reggio Calabria 1968 - Ponte sul Salso a Licata, Agrigento 1969/73 - Centro Commerciale “La Piramide” ad Abidjan, Costa d'Avorio (con R. Olivieri) 1969/70 - Fiumicino, Roma 1969/70 - Centro di manutenzione per aerei Boeing 747 dell'Alitalia nell'Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci 1969 - Ponte sul Rio Guayas a Guayaquil, Ecuador 1969 - Palazzo dello Sport a Milano (con Prof. Arch. Dagoberto Ortensi, Dott. Ing. Vottorio Mosco, Dott. Ing.Sergio Musmeci, Dott. Ing. Italo Stegher; progetto) 1970 - Viadotto Akragas, vicino alla Valle dei Templi ad Agrigento 1970 - Ponte sul Rio Magdalena a Barranquilla - Colombia 1970/78 - Terminal dell'aeroporto “Fontana Rossa” a Catania 1970/72 - Viadotto sulla Costa Viola presso Scilla sull'autostrada Salerno-Reggio Calabria 1971/1989 - Studi e proposte per il Ponte sullo Stretto di Messina (progetti) 1971 - Studio per un ponte sul Corno D'Oro Istanbul Turchia (progetto) 1971 - Centro elettronico per elaborazione dati dell'Alitalia alla Magliana, Roma 1971 - Ponte a Taranto sul Mar Piccolo 1971/74 - Viadotto Carpineto per la superstrada Basentana presso Vietri, Potenza 1973/76 - Viadotto San Francesco per la strada Garganica, Foggia 1973/77 - Ponte Costanzo sull'Irminio presso Ragusa per la Strada statale 115 Sud Occidentale Sicula (con A. Petruzzi) 1973/78 - Rampe di collegamento fra le autostrade esterne e il porto di Napoli (con L Tocchetti, A. Polese, R. Di Martino) 1975/88 - Hotel Ergife, via Aurelia, Roma (con B.M. Cesarano) 1976/77 - Sede centrale della Società F.A.T.A., Pianezza, Torino (con O. Nyemeyer, M. Gennari) 1977 - Edifici di edilizia economica e popolare a Corviale, Roma (con M. Fiorentino e altri) 1979/80 - Ponte sul vallone Cardinale, Siracusa 1979/80 - Grandi serbatoi idrici in Nigeria 1979/83 - Serbatoio idrico a Valenzano - Bari 1981/84 - Aviorimessa per la manutenzione degli aerei nell'Aeroporto Internazionale Leonardo da Vinci a Fiumicino, Roma (con Studio Trella, L. Nusiner, C. Presenti) 1983 - Ponte di Cortes, Madrid - Spagna 1983/85 - Chiesa di S. Maria Madre del Redentore a Tor Bella Monaca, Roma (con P. Spadolini) 1984 - Viadotto Stronetta per l'Autostrada dei Trafori, tratto Carpugnino-Feriolo, Stresa 1984/89 - Santuario della Madonna delle Lacrime, Siracusa, (con P. Parat, M. Andrult) (da progetto del 1957) 1986/88 - Viadotto Rotaro nei pressi di Lauria, Potenza 1988 - Autorimessa in via delle Vigne Nuove, Roma 1989 - Chiesa nel centro direzionale di Napoli (con P. e G. Spadolini, B. Piscione, R. Sparcio)
Aalto designed the building accurately, the concept of its architecture and interior spaces were conceived as a “medical instrument.” Given the sanatorium’s history and its subsequent functions, wishing the future new owners to preserve the iconic space.
This is a model of a large luminous floating structure, designed by Italian artist and designer Rinaldo Donzelli (1921-1984), in early 60s. The structure was designed to settle in lake Como at a city party.
Thanks to Bruno Munari with whom he made a profound friendship that then became a fruitful collaboration that would last a lifetime.
