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oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/1756
2017-07-14T14:46:20Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014); 77-100
Location of Installations without Opening Chases in Ceramic Walls
Peer-reviewed Article
García Quesada, Rafael; Universidad de Granada
2014-03-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/1756
brick
chases
installations
efficiency
regulation
es_ES
To open chases in a wall, made of ceramics bricks, blocks or thermal blocks is, actually, a traditional locating system for installations. It is an expensive, slow, dangerous and destructive system prone to diseases. Traditionally the parameters of thermal conductivity and acoustic insulation of a brick, ceramic block or thermal blocks provided by a manufacturer, have been the result of executing a wall (partition or structural wall) made of that material, but without the opening chases. Companies have been giving some values which really could not comply with regulations. The way to solve this failure to comply is twofold. The first option is to endow the ceramic piece with some safety co-efficient, as far as acoustic and thermal insulation is concerned; so that once the installations have been located in the different chases they meet the minimum requirements set by the regulations. The second option, subject of this paper, is to locate installations within the same geometry of the ceramic piece and so, three patents will be explained briefly to illustrate this point. The European guidelines in the field of energy efficiency in 2010 (2010/31/UE, 19 May), and 2012 (2012/27/UE 25 October), together with the 2013 Spanish executive orders, RD 238/2013 (Regulations for the Thermal Installations on Buildings, RITE, modification) and RD 235/2013 (energy efficiency), severely penalize worsening/weakening of passive conditioning and more specifically, they severely penalize the opening of chases. Therefore, it is time to look for eco-solutions to secure a safe and efficient commercialization of the ceramic closing/wall.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/1829
2017-04-26T12:23:03Z
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2017-04-26T12:23:03Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014); 59-76
The Critical Approach of ‘Plug’ in Re-Conceptualisation of Architectural Program
Peer-reviewed Article
Beslioglu, Bahar; MSGSU Part-time Lecturer
2014-03-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/1829
criticism
plug
experiment
concept
program
en_US
This paper explores the issue of ‘plug’ in designing program within particular experimental studies in architecture. There was what could be called a critical ‘elaboration’ of program in Archigram’s 1964 ‘Plug-In’ City project, while intriguingly the critical approach taken in the 2001 ‘Un-Plug’ project of Francois Roche and Stephanie Lavaux hinted at a ‘re-evaluation’ of ‘plug’ related to program in architecture. The embedded criticism and creative programmatic suggestions in both projects will be discussed from the point of view of using the accumulated urbanscape as a potential for contemplation, a theme that has also been elaborated, both theoretically and experimentally, by the artist/architect Gordon Matta-Clark in his 1978 ‘Balloon Housing’ project. These experimentations - about the ‘plug’ - need to be discussed in order to understand their contributions as traceable sources to program issue in contemporary architecture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/1883
2021-02-01T12:56:52Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014); 101-107
Pensar y hacer la arquitectura: una introducción. Juan Calduch Cervera
Book Review
Gutiérrez Mozo, María Elia; Universidad de Alicante
Arnau Amo, Joaquín; Universitat Politècnica de València
2014-03-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/1883
Review
Juan Calduch
architecture
es_ES
The title, Pensar y hacer la arquitectura (Thinking and Making Architecture), is promising because architecture, whether theoretical or practical, is something that offers a great deal to think about and even more to do. As an introduction, it is a work that lives up to everything it promises. With its convenient size, a length of less than one hundred pages, and in-depth content, the book published by Editorial Club Universitario de Alicante in 2013 makes no attempt to conceal its didactic aim. Filled with key words in intalic, it attracts a wide audience made up of both students seeking a first insight into this field, as well as curious amateurs who wish to be informed about matters which affect all people on this planet. Fortunately, it is a book which does not fall into the trap of other books written by experts, books which can only be understood by professionals in the same field, members of an elite club who have their own jargon filled with double meanings, and which hinder newcomers from entering.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/1888
2018-03-28T09:17:29Z
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2018-03-28T09:17:29Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014); 1-30
The Itinerary as a Strategy in Alvar Aalto Analysis of Four Works, 1926-28
Peer-reviewed Article
García-Escudero, Daniel; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Bardí Milà, Berta; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2014-03-28
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Alvar Aalto
itinerary
staircase
hall
strategy
es_ES
This article addresses Alvar Aalto’s architecture by considering the itinerary as a fundamental strategy. The attention towards the users’ circulation movement, and the spaces and elements that propitiate it, allows for the analysis of his work from paradigms which are far from what is dislocated, broken and discontinuous; being the usual features that the critics have used to describe his projects. For all this his first years of professional practise are analyzed, specifically the period from 1926 to 1928. During those years, Aalto developed a series of commissions in Jyväskylä, Turku and Viipuri, in which he consolidates a way of structuring the projects based on approximation, entry and mechanisms of internal movement. Beyond the language change that occurs during this period, it is interesting to highlight certain design tools that he will use throughout his entire career.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/1896
2018-03-28T09:12:54Z
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2018-03-28T09:12:54Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014); 31-58
The Wall as a Spatial Work: the Reliefs of Jorge Oteiza in Architecture (1951-58)
Peer-reviewed Article
López-Bahut, Emma; Universidade da Coruña
2014-03-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/1896
architecture
sculpture
Jorge Oteiza
space
light.
es_ES
This paper analyses the mural projects of Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza on façades and internal walls between the years 1951-58. At first, he dealt with walls as ground planes on which to execute his sculptures, finally viewing them as an empty plane with spatial possibilities, defined by the minimum forms and the action of natural light. Based on original, previously unpublished material, we explore the evolution of this work with the aim of establishing to what extent this process was marked by the architecture on which his work was executed, by the architects with whom he collaborated, or the stage of his sculptural experimentation with which they are associated. We show that apart from the presence of an architect, there is a correlation between the way in which the reliefs were applied to the wall and the work carried out on the space where the project was created: the larger the spatial work on the wall, the greater the relationship with the space within which it was inserted, at every scale, from the interior of the architecture to the urban space.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/2215
2021-02-18T16:15:32Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014); i-iii
Editorial
Editorial
Mas Llorens, Vicente; Universitat Politècnica de València
2014-03-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/2215
es_ES
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/2319
2021-02-18T16:28:52Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014); 119-125
Autenticidad y monumento. Del mito de Lázaro al de Pigmalión. Juan Miguel Hernández León
Book Review
Soriano Tarín, Víctor; Arquitecto
2014-10-23
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/2319
heritage
authenticity
monument
Hernández León
review
es_ES
Authenticity and monument. Hernández León builds his essay, published by Adab Editores, around these two fundamental concepts in the development of the study of restoration. In a text full of references and evocative correlations, he analyzes the transformations and accidents that these two concepts have suffered from the time they first appeared until today, and their importance in the genesis of the heritage discourse.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/2333
2021-02-01T13:01:35Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014); 1-31
Architecture as technical object. Industrial architecture of Albert Kahn
Peer-reviewed Article
Pancorbo Crespo, Luis; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Martín-Robles, Inés; Universidad Camilo José Cela
2014-10-23
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/2333
Fordism
mechanical paradigm
thermo-dynamical paradigm
technique
Albert Kahn
es_ES
Science’s adoption of the mechanistic paradigm promoted the Technological and Industrial Revolution, giving birth to the age of the machine and a new category of materiality, Technical Objects. Twentieth century widespread prevalence of mechanical paradigm in architecture, adopting the technique as rector of architectural activity, and the use of rational and scientific premises in the design process, marked the birth of modern architecture. The industrial work of Albert Kahn played an important role in this genesis, which transports to architecture the project procedure used by engineers to create technical objects. This research seeks to itemize and revalue this influence, which we believe is vital although it has had little critical fortune. The current replacement of the mechanical paradigm in architecture by a new thermo-dynamical paradigm, embodied by the Modern Movement, and forced by new models of sustainability and energy saving, puts back into the frontline certain industrial works of Albert Kahn, in which the management of environmental conditions plays a prominent role in the genesis of the project.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/2658
2017-04-26T12:23:03Z
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2017-04-26T12:23:03Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014); 33-45
Minimalistic details in face of thermal protection requirements with lightweight concrete
Peer-reviewed Article
Lueking, Tim; FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences
2014-10-23
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/2658
Single layer building envelope
building construction
lightweight concrete
window detail
thermal bridge
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In the 1970s governments in Central and Northern Europe established thermal protection requirements, leading to the reduction of heat transfer through the building envelope. Subsequently, two different strategies were employed to decline the heat loss of exterior walls: the first relied on new or modified building materials that possessed decreased thermal conductivity than previously used materials; the second provided a special insulating layer. Concerning detail design, constructions with specialized layers still might appear to be simple but they are complex and fragile on construction level. This leads to the question: Is it possible to design details, which are simple concerning both appearance and construction? In this article I begin with the advantages and constraints of different exterior wall typologies within today’s legal restrictions in Central Europe. After that I focus on to the material lightweight concrete. As a key issue the analysis of different window positions within the wall (flush to the inside/outside wall or in the middle) is presented. Since the source of the investigation has architectural roots, constructive capabilities and design constraints are regarded, too. In the conclusion, future prospects of material development and the consequences for the detail design is given.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/2813
2017-04-26T12:23:03Z
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2017-04-26T12:23:03Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014); 47-61
Salvem el Cabanyal: Urban movements and their claim for the “Right to the City”
Peer-reviewed Article
Navarro Eslava, Luz; Welsh School of Architecture
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit
2014-10-23
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/2813
Urban Regeneration
Conflict
El Cabanyal
Right to the City
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In the last 15 years a network of urban social movements has sprouted around Valencia under the name of the ‘Salvem’ [Let’s save]. The main objective of these is to protect their territory from what they consider an external threat. Focusing on the case of Salvem el Cabanyal [Save Cabanyal], this article shows that when a mayor urban renewal plan threatens to erase a consolidated neighborhood, urban conflict can be used by a well-organized community to empower themselves, confront the urban plan and claim their Right to the City, which is the right to live, create, use and take part in the decisions that affect their neighborhood. The most intriguing platform that Salvem has used to channel their protests and engage critical resistance against the plan is the art workshop ‘Portes Obertes’ [Open Door], a way of using art and vernacular architecture to reinforce neighbors’ claim in their struggle. However, if the conflict is beautified focusing merely on the historical and cultural value of the neighborhood, hence forgetting the real causes that underlay behind it, the movement might stop the plan, but it will lose the transformative opportunity.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3226
2021-02-18T16:21:14Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014); 63-88
Luis Albert and the first urban plans of the Provincial Council of Valencia
Peer-reviewed Article
Merlo Fuertes, José Luis; Arquitecto
2014-10-23
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3226
urban history
urbanism
planning
Diputación de Valencia
Luís Albert
es_ES
This article will analyze the urban plans of those municipalities in the Province of Valencia that embraced the technical assistance given by the Provincial Council for the planning composition, at the time of Luis Albert Ballesteros, the provincial council architect. Those first urban plans of the Provincial Council make up a homogeneous set of documents since they respond to a unique style of urban planning that varies as much as the original core of the population does. The common element is the ground plan centrality that would be highlighted by an area or a protected green zone that will somehow link to the urban proposals connected to the city-garden model by Howard. Commencement of which began at a time characterized mainly by the co-existence of a great diversity of laws and percepts, making it so that the meaning of the term urban planning could be applied in a variety of ways. The urban plans of the Provincial Council represent the latest inheritance of the extension models and interior remodeling. In the transition to the Land Planning Act (Ley de Suelo) of 1956, these plans have the interest in being, in addition to the last examples of the so-called urbanism in the municipal tradition, one of the ancestors of the current master plans of urban development (plan general de ordenación urbana).
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3227
2017-07-14T14:35:21Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014); 89-117
Four lessons on Randstad-Holland
Peer-reviewed Article
Moreno, Joan; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2014-10-23
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3227
mobility
urban network
metropolis
Randstad-Holland
the Netherlands
es_ES
The Dutch delta, at the confluence of the courses of the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt rivers, is the paradigmatic territory of networks from the earliest stages of the human settlement. In an unsteady landscape, made up of a mosaic of marshes, bogs and sand dunes; irrigated by a maze with rivers, streams and canals; transportation network is the element that strengthens and unites the urban structure for centuries. This article discusses the integration of the Dutch transport network and the urban network from four noted episodes in the history of mobility in the Netherlands: the Trekvaarten [towpaths], the Oude Lijn [Old railway line], the Halsketting [nodal corridor], and finally, the intermodal center Zuidas-Amsterdam. The aim of this article is to show how the development of the Dutch urban network is conditioned by structural changes in the transportation network, and how the evolution of the urban mobility system determines simultaneously both: regional and local spheres. Ultimately, four lessons in mobility and urbanity in the Randstad-Holland that take the case of study further and are a model in the development of an integrated metropolitan system.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3307
2021-02-18T16:24:41Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014); vii-ix
Editorial
Editorial
Pérez Igualada, Javier; Universitat Politècnica de València
2014-10-23
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3307
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oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3376
2017-07-14T14:27:16Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015); 33-55
Further observations on the light in the Pantheon in Rome
Peer-reviewed Article
Linares de la Torre, Oscar; Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2015-04-14
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3376
Pantheon
light
orientation
access
interior space
es_ES
Adriano’s Pantheon is one of the most celebrated works in the history of architecture. Many questions have captivated its visitors, but it is the light that has captured most of the attention: after stripping the building of its symbolic load, the manifestation of its interior light seems to be the only purpose of this immense “space-light” that has fascinated architects, art historians, painters and photographers throughout time. It seems difficult to add anything new, but being fully aware of this, the author of this article hopes to point out some of the different aspects of light in the Pantheon that he considers haven’t been developed enough: the reason behind the solar and urban orientation of the temple regarding the north-south axis; the reconstruction of the light and shadow sequence that must have occurred in the original access to the interior of the temple; the interpretation of the ocular beam of light as an immaterial reminiscence of the false central support of the Etruscan domes, turned into a subtle column that without ever reaching the vertical position, falls in different ways on the surfaces that create the interior.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3386
2018-03-28T09:18:35Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015); 129-136
Photography and Modern Architecture in Spain, 1925-1965. Iñaki Bergera (ed.)
Book Review
Blanco Agüeira, Silvia; Centro Superior de Estudios de Galicia
University College Dublin
2015-04-14
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3386
photographers
architecture
modernity
aesthetics
theory
es_ES
Under the same title as the research project it stems from, this book is intended as the catalogue for the exhibition held at the ICO Museum (Madrid) between June and September 2014. The project, under the direction of Iñaki Bergera, brought together several researchers and guest authors in order to analyse, document and disseminate the role of photography in the construction of modernity in Spain. Both the exhibition and the catalogue are vehicles for the initial presentation of the research carried out.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3388
2018-03-28T09:21:51Z
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2018-03-28T09:21:51Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015); 101-127
The lattice as vertical stratum in the architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson
Peer-reviewed Article
Delgado Berrocal, Sonia; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2015-04-14
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3388
lattices
layers
Smithson
space between
art of inhabitation
es_ES
This article discusses the concepts of lattices, stratum and stratification, based on the discourse narrated by Alison Smithson in her article “Layers and layering” (1981), and the works in which Alison and Peter Smithson worked with the strata and the stratification, using the lattices as a means to carry out its architecture. In this sense, the Smithson –after several experiments with vertical strata that filtered and broke the classical static vision, as in the Ascot Pavilion, 1955–, raised an exploration that would take to two consecutives stages. The first stage is linked to the seventies, where the fixed lattices appeared as filters, veils, membranes, insinuating and protector skins, that is to say, weft flat surfaces (overlapping each other or on different spaces), as shown in St. Hilda's College, 1967-70. A second stage is related with the eighties, where those lattices begin to separate, creating intermediate spaces –to be occupied with the art of inhabitation– as in the exhibition Christmas Hogmanay, 1980, and that, subsequently, would finish ramifying three-dimensionally as in the porch of Hexenhaus, 1984-2002. These reflections will be re-taken in contemporary architecture, as new possible reference to the creation of stratified future spaces.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3389
2021-10-20T07:09:09Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015); 75-100
Simulated scenography of the collective: Mimesis and simulacrum at the Quartiere Tiburtino
Peer-reviewed Article
Franco, David; Clemson University
2015-04-14
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3389
Tiburtino
mimesis
simulacrum
quotidian
Ridolfi
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The goal of this paper is to examine critical practices of residential architecture in Southern Europe that appeared during a period of economic instability –the post- war in the mid-twentieth century-, and that may provide useful elements for re-thinking housing models during the current context of crisis. To do so, I have studied the Quartiere Tiburtino in Rome, one of the most influential housing developments of Italian-neorealism, from an expanded cultural perspective, understanding it as an design exercise that recovers the realm of everyday life for architecture, through the pre-modern concept of mimesis and, simultaneously, incorporating the notion of the simulacrum as a legitimate cultural construction. I have examined in detail the various mimetic processes -linguistic, technological and typological-, through which the Quartiere Tiburtino deals with the living conditions of urban immigrants from rural areas of Italy; and the creation of a social simulation of great complexity -the invention of a shared urban identity for the new inhabitants of the neighborhood, which becomes the most significant contribution of the project to the debate about the possibilities of architecture as a social and politically engaged practice.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3414
2017-04-26T12:23:02Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015); 1-31
From region to neighborhood unit: the urbanism of Group L’Equerre, 1937-52
Peer-reviewed Article
Grulois, Geoffrey; Faculté d'Architecture
Université Libre de Bruxelles
2015-04-14
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3414
modern urbanism
town planning
neigbourhood unit
Group L’Equerre
CIAM
en_US
From 1937 to 1952, the young architects from Liège that formed Group L’Equerre and served as the secretariat of the Belgian section of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) initiated a reflection about the development of the Liège industrial agglomeration and its population centers. What sources did they mobilize to build a reflexive and multi-scalar approach to urban planning from the regional scale to that of the inhabited neigbourhood? The discovery of the original drawings of the survey of the Liège Region (1948-1952) and plans for a neighborhood unit on the plateau of Trixhes (1937-1952) in two archives"”Archives of the city of Liège and the archives of architecture of ULB"”allow us to explore an emerging practice of regional planning and neighborhood design in Belgium. In this article, we trace how architects from Group L’Equerre took advantage of the advance in human geography and regional planning to build a specific planning approach to Belgian cities that goes beyond the CIAM principles of the functional city in order to incorporate concerns for the natural environnement and traditional community levels. In this way, the paper questions the supposed dominance of the Athens Charter for modern urbanism on the development of postwar town planning in Belgium by identifying the emergence of landscape and community issues in the practice of regional and local development.
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2017-04-26T12:23:02Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015); 57-73
A pavilion for Constantin Meunier by architect Gaston Eysselinck (1929)
Peer-reviewed Article
Dubois, Marc; Faculté Architecture LUCA KULeuven / Gand & Bruxelles
2015-04-14
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3477
Meunier
Eysselinck
monument
Dante
Mies van der Rohe
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At the end of the 19th century, the Belgian sculptor Constantin Meunier (1831-1905) had an international reputation. The main theme of his oeuvre is the working class. His sculptures were frequently exposed in different European cities. Two of his works were presented at the art biennale of Venice in 1907. The Ny Carlsberg Glytotek in Copenhagen possesses the largest collection of Meunier’s sculptures (48 pieces).In 1929, the S.C.A.B. (Société Centrale d’Architecture de Belgique), the national architects organisation, launched a competition for the "Monument au Travail", a monument that puts four reliefs and five sculptures together in Laken (Brussels). The architect Mario Knauer (1879-1948) was chosen to build the monument. The young architect Gaston Eysselinck (1907-1953) participated with a fascinating project, but was directly eliminated by the jury. What were the ideas of Eysselinck’s proposition? A pavilion with a roof garden and an open ceiling? A meditation space where the light enters, following the example of Dante’s Paradise? Or was he influenced by the German pavilion of Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona, built in the beginning of 1929?
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3598
2018-03-28T09:23:56Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015); 1-30
The Palais des Machines of 1889. Historical-structural Reflections
Peer-reviewed Article
Estévez Cimadevila, Javier; Universidade da Coruña
López César, Isaac; Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de A Coruña.
Departamento de Tecnología de la Construcción.
2015-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3598
Galerie des Machines
Dutert
Contamin
Universal Exposition
structure
es_ES
The Galerie des Machines of 1889 is present in most books on the history of architecture. There are, however, certain aspects of this building that merit a more in-depth study. Other elements have been incorrectly described in current and contemporary publications about the building. The aim of this article is to examine the place this building occupies in the historical development of metal arch structures, its precedents and the influence it has exerted on later buildings of a similar structure. On the other hand, there have also been contradictions concerning the materials used in the erection of the structure and the reasons behind using them, as well as the exact span achieved. This article will unequivocally resolve these issues.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3657
2018-03-28T09:43:43Z
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2018-03-28T09:43:43Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015); 43-68
Renaissance Architecture of Central Scheme: Jerónimo Quijano and his Immediate Environment
Peer-reviewed Article
López González, Antonio Luis; Universidad de Alicante
2015-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3657
Jerónimo Quijano
Spanish Renaissance
central floor plan
es_ES
Throughout History, many large burial chapels (religious or memorial) with centralized floor plan and independent character have arisen. Jerónimo Quijano, Renaissance Spanish architect, posited certain dual approach; on the one hand, the Renaissance ideal of central scheme and, on the other hand, the direct integration of the duo header-nave without added interstitial element. In this scope, two clear examples of the evolution of Quijano’s architectural proposal in the ancient Cartagena Diocese’s nucleus have been selected:The collegiate church of San Patricio in Lorca, Murcia: an original project (in pursuit of an autonomous central scheme) is a Renaissance monumental temple whose apse has a ‘visual and radial permeability’ towards its ambulatory, the final alteration of its centrality and the modification of the morphology of its apse in order to connect it to the nave transept and therefore articulating the constructive elements of both bodies; thereby ensuring their architectural integration.The Santiago’s parish church in Jumilla, Murcia: entails the full integration (composite floor plan) between a traditional Christian Gothic nave and a renaissance header of three-lobed central plan. Centrality focuses on its header, which in turn contains the transept.As references to Quijano´s architectural approach in his Hispanic environment, it should reflect upon certain reminiscences to Renaissance works in Eastern Andalusia, his direct influence in the Government of Orihuela and subsequently some of his possible influences in the Valencian territory.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3663
2021-02-18T16:22:33Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015); 69-79
L’architettura della Compagnia di Gesù in Italia XVI-XVIII sec. Luciano PATETTA [et al.]
Book Review
Navarro Catalán, David Miguel; Universitat Politècnica de València
2015-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3663
Luciano Patteta
Jesuit Architecture
es_ES
Review of a basic and reference monograph to study the architecture of the Society of Jesus.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3664
2021-02-18T16:23:11Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016); 83-117
The Architects of the Valencian Jesuit Foundations
Peer-reviewed Article
Navarro Catalán, David Miguel; Universitat Politècnica de València
2016-10-27
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3664
Jesuit Architecture
Valencia
Gaspar Alfonso
Diego Olcina
Gaspar Martínez
es_ES
The remarkable collection of buildings constructed by the Society of Jesus in the old Kingdom of Valencia was completed over the course of an extensive process that began in the 16th century. The purpose of this article is to examine the different historical phases of this process and reveal some previously unknown aspects with the aid of unpublished documentation. A great number of craftsmen took part in these works, including a group of architects who were members of the Society whose activity has been disregarded until now. The writings of Fathers Gaspar Alfonso and Diego Olcina on the construction of the Valencian foundations have added to our knowledge of new architects who were members of the Society in the ambit of the old Jesuit province of Aragón. The article also presents the activity of largely unknown craftsmen external to the order, especially Gaspar Martínez, who participated in the construction of numerous Society buildings.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3713
2021-02-18T16:10:13Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015); vii-viii
Editorial
Editorial
Guimaraens Igual, Guillermo; Universitat Politècnica de València
2015-04-14
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3713
es_ES
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3835
2021-02-18T16:26:15Z
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2021-02-18T16:26:15Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015); 31-42
Jacques Polieri: Kinetic Theatre Space
Peer-reviewed Article
Prieto López, Juan Ignacio; Universidade da Coruña
2015-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3835
Polieri
Theater
Avant-garde
Kinetic
en_US
Between the First and Second World War the definition of the new type of theater building was one of the main tasks of the European Avantgarde. In its design and theoretical formulation were poets, playwrights, theater directors, architects, painters, actors, engineers... from different countries and art movements. Despite the collaboration of the leading members of the Avant-garde like Marinetti, Moholy-Nagy, Kiesler, El Lissitzky, Gropius... none of these proposals were built because of their radical and utopian characteristics. It was a young French theater director, Jacques Polieri, who became the main compiler and prompter of those proposals in postwar Europe in two issues of the French journal Aujourd´hui, art et architecture. The first of them published in May 1958, under the title “Cinquante ans de recherches dans le spectacle” collected the most important experiences in theory, scenography, technic, and theater architecture in the interwar period. Polieri worked with different architects in several projects for theater buildings, whose main feature was the mobility of all their elements and components, trying to get a dynamic experience during the performance. Those proposals related to Kinetic Art, were published in a second issue of Aujourd´hui, art et architecture entitled “Scénographie Nouvelle” in October 1963.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/3913
2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
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2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017); 29-54
A Convergence of Traditions: Saint Lawrence Chapel, by Avanto Architects
Peer-reviewed Article
Millán-Gómez, Antonio; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
2017-10-24
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/3913
architectural competitions
modernity and representation
nordic architecture.
en_US
Debates on the actuality of modern architecture by new contributions could be considered by critics as a deviation from its essence. In such a context, some works by Finnish studies exhibited at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Spring, 2015 provide fresh approaches with their proposals and interest us here to reconsider architectural modernity with alterative readings. Project ideas are fused and converge towards new proposals in a process of continuity, from which only the concrete buildings experience, with enlightening phenomenal qualities, redeem us. We concentrate on a chapel by Avanto Architects in which interests from the second generation of modern architecture and the masters of Nordic Architecture can be appreciated.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/4142
2021-02-18T16:12:44Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016); 29-53
Mies in Brussels 1934. Synthesis of an Unbuilt Exhibition Architecture
Peer-reviewed Article
Lizondo Sevilla, Laura; Universitat Politècnica de València
Santatecla Fayos, José; Universitat Politècnica de València
Salvador Luján, Nuria; Universitat Politècnica de València
2016-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/4142
Mies
Germany
Exhibiting Pavilions
World’s Fair
Brussels
es_ES
The article delves into the complex world of exhibition architectures, those whose destiny is reduced to be mounted, exposed and dismantled in a short period of time. A process that allows a quick experience of architecture, bounded in time, and whose experimentation gives rise to the birth of new concepts. The text focuses on the German Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe for the Brussels World’s Fair of 1934, his only unbuilt ephemeral architecture due to the political uniqueness of the moment. Now, criticism and the archive allow us to reinterpret its contribution to the history of architecture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/4197
2021-02-18T16:01:42Z
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2021-02-18T16:01:42Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015); vii-ix
Editorial
Editorial
Domingo Calabuig, Debora; Universitat Politècnica de València
2015-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/4197
en_US
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/4255
2018-03-28T09:13:11Z
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2018-03-28T09:13:11Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016); 55-83
From the Collages and Glass Models of Oteiza to the Concrete of Sáenz de Oíza
Peer-reviewed Article
López-Bahut, Emma; Universidade da Coruña
2016-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/4255
Oteiza
Sáenz de Oíza
Le Corbusier
Malévich
architecture
es_ES
The Jorge Oteiza Foundation Museum in Alzuza (Navarra, Spain) was designed by the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, with the sculptor Jorge Oteiza intervening in the architectural decisions at particular moments. The building marked the conclusion of a series of collaborations between them, beginning in the early 1950s, marked by an intense convergence between art and architecture. The building contains and interacts with the artistic works in a powerful way, but at the same time with great care and awareness, demonstrating the extent to which Sáenz de Oíza understood the sculptural work of Oteiza. This article explores the connection between the museum (2003) and the artistic experiments of the sculptor in pieces called “Light Wall” (1956), made using glass models and collages whose main references are the Suprematist paintings of Malevich. Sáenz de Oíza made use of Oteiza’s artistic concept, which took shape in the fabric of the architecture. Le Corbusier’s chapel in Ronchamp serves as a bridge between their ideas, a reference found in Oteiza’s sculptural experiments and in his text Experimental Proposal (1957) and in the architecture proposed by Sáenz de Oíza for the museum.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/4291
2018-03-28T09:20:36Z
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2018-03-28T09:20:36Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016); 85-102
CASTonCAST: Architectural freeform shapes from precast stackable components
Peer-reviewed Article
Enrique, Lluis; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich (ETHZ)
Cepaitis, Povilas; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich (ETHZ)
Ordoñez, Diego; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich (ETHZ)
Piles, Carlos; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich (ETHZ)
2016-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/4291
Casting techniques
Precast concrete
Fabrication-aware design
Architectural geometry
Architectural freeform shapes
en_US
This article introduces the CASTonCAST system for the design and production of architectural freeform shapes from precast stackable components. This system is composed of two complementary parts: a novel manufacturing technique of precast stackable building components and a new geometric method for the design of freeform shapes by means of stackable solid tiles. This paper describes both parts of the system by means of physical prototypes and geometric studies.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/4297
2021-02-18T16:02:35Z
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2021-02-18T16:02:35Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016); 1-27
The Wall of New York
Peer-reviewed Article
Duran Fernandez, Jose; Universitat Politècnica de València
2016-10-27
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/4297
New York
Anti-disaster City
Soft infrastructure
Water
es_ES
The urban history of New York City, its birth and decline, is linked with one basic element: water. Water was the reason for its foundation and it could be the cause of its disappearance... Water is fundamental to the urban life of this city; it is the element that has fed its growth during its four hundred year existence. Only for this reason does it deserve the upmost attention and an exhaustive study. Water as a limit, wall or barrier, or as an extreme place of opportunity, it is without a doubt a place where the urban future of New York City rests. Although it deals with an uncertain and dystopian future if the forecast of the increase in ocean levels (as a consequence of climate change) holds true. The article is an abridgment of nine short texts and an epilogue, together with their respective ten graphic documents that make up the body of this research. As a result, the reader faces a graphic essay formed by small chapters that will guide them through the romance between New York and water, from its origins to the present day.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/4327
2018-03-28T09:15:46Z
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2018-03-28T09:15:46Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016); 55-81
Singular Buildings on Regular Grids. Churches in L’Eixample and La Baixa
Peer-reviewed Article
Arboix-Alió, Alba; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2016-10-27
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/4327
Barcelona
Lisbon
church
regular expansion grid
singular building
es_ES
A building is considered unique when it outstands within the common fabric of the city due to its form, its nature, and its production and serialization process. If this architectural singularity is accompanied by an urban distinction, the result is much more effective because the compound becomes an urban enclave capable of arranging and hierarchically organising the city. The most illustrative example for historic cities with a Catholic tradition may probably be the church with the public space that materializes around it. For centuries, the sacred building and the atrium that precedes it have represented the city’s reference point and articulating centre of social, economic and cultural life. Nevertheless, if this is more or less evident in old towns consolidated over time; how is this solved in modern cities formed by a regular urban layout whose grid is put before the freedom of the buildings? With Barcelona and Lisbon as case studies, the paper focuses on the implementation and typology of the most paradigmatic churches in the neighbourhoods of L’Eixample Cerdà and La Baixa Pombalina.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/4330
2020-11-30T08:49:56Z
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2020-11-30T08:49:56Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016); 1-27
Urban planning by Alejandro de la Sota in the Spanish colonisation: La Bazana
Peer-reviewed Article
Cabecera Soriano, Rubén; Centro Universitario Santa Ana
Universidad de Extremadura
2016-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/4330
Urban planning
La Bazana
colonisation
Alejandro de la Sota
National Institute of Colonisation
es_ES
The Spanish civil war caused the emerging development of the urban theory to come to a standstill, especially in the rural areas which had began to appear at the end of the XIX century, mainly in Europe and the United states. The need to urgently develop a process of interior colonisation in the most disadvantaged areas was solved in favour of the theories of concentration supported by José Tamés facing the colonist disintegration defended by Víctor D’Ors. The system disguised by Tamés –head of the Service of Architecture of the National Institution of Colonisation (NIC)– created population centres distributed throughout the territories colonised by the NIC, whose projects were developed by a large number of architects that formed a genuine architectural and urban laboratory. Alejandro de la Sota was one of these architects and his work for the NIC leaves us with an imprint of an urban planning which could very well be seen on any front cover of a specialised journal. In La Bazana (1954, Badajoz) De la Sota combines with mastery the criteria imposed by the NIC with his unique interpretation of the territory, the landscape, the site, sun exposure and the way the colonists lived.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/4397
2018-03-28T09:45:16Z
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2018-03-28T09:45:16Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016); 103-109
Josep Maria Sostres. Centenario
Book Review
Marzá, Fernando; Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
2016-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/4397
es_ES
Los editores han hecho un trabajo sobre Josep Maria Sostres “no desde la cercanía del que se sabe contemporáneo, la abnegación del que se considera su discípulo o la admiración del que lo ha conocido”. Esta distancia es lo que les ha permitido combinar con libertad artículos y materiales para lograr el objetivo que se habían propuesto, “mostrar a Josep María Sostres como trampolín hacia la cultura y la arquitectura”. Dentro de la compilación de materiales diversos que forman el libro, encontramos artículos de revistas, transcripciones de una conferencia, escritos que se centran en dos edificios buscando analogías, escritos analíticos y otros más descriptivos. También encontramos la relación de todos los proyectos en que intervino (de 1936 a 1980) y la lista de todos los libros de su biblioteca. Todo ello convierte este libro sobre Josep Maria Sostres en una eficaz herramienta cultural.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/5259
2021-02-18T16:05:16Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016); 119-147
Le Corbusier. The duality “Architecture Mâle” and “Architecture Femelle”
Peer-reviewed Article
García González, Andrea; Universitat Politècnica de València
2016-10-27
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/5259
Le Corbusier
Architecture
Painting
Writings
Ambiguity
es_ES
In the 50´s, Le Corbusier publishes two books, Le Modulor (1950) and Le Poème de l´Angle Droit (1955). They are extremely important given that they represent the synthesis of his architectural thought at the height of his career. In both, references can be observed to the duality of male-female, which do not seem to have been previously part of the architect´s consistent theoretical body. One decade later, duality imbues the architectural critics, who interpret it as the opposition between two residential projects from early 1920´s, the Maisons Monol and the Maisons Citrohan. Both projects are proclaimed as a germ of two genealogical lines which come to an end with the Villas Sarabhai and Shodhan in the 50´s. They are related respectively with two concepts "architecture femelle" and "architecture mâle", cited by Le Corbusier in Le Modulor. However, the exhaustive analysis of the paradigm of both architectures through different periods, a complete reading of both texts and its relationship with Le Corbusier´s pictorial production, brings to light the importance of ambiguity and polysemy in the architect's work, which is difficult to divide in hermetic categories.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/5746
2019-02-04T13:26:41Z
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2019-02-04T13:26:41Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016); 163-167
Machines and Metaphors
Book Review
Martínez García-Posada, Ángel; Universidad de Sevilla
2016-10-27
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/5746
Metaphor
machine
mechanics
culture
industry
es_ES
The edition La ley del reloj. Arquitectura, máquinas y cultura moderna (Cátedra, Madrid, 2016) registers the useful paradox of the analogy between architecture and technique. Its author, the architect Eduardo Prieto, also a philosopher, professor and writer, acknowledges the obvious distance from machines to buildings, so great that it can only be solved using strange comparisons, since architecture does not move nor are the machines habitable, however throughout the book, from the origin of the metaphor of the machine, with clarity in his essay and enlightening erudition, he points out with certainty some concomitances of high interest, drawing throughout history a beautiful cartography of the fruitful encounter between organics and mechanics.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/5747
2017-04-26T12:23:02Z
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2017-04-26T12:23:02Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016); 149-162
Opening Gijón to Future: The Limited Revision of the Official Urban Catalogue
Peer-reviewed Article
Latorre, Jorge; New York University. Visiting Scholar Art History Department
Sola, Jesús; Estudio de Renovación y Desarrollos Urbanos (ERDU)
2016-10-27
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/5747
urban planning and development
urban environment
architectural preservation
official urban catalogue
Gijon
en_US
Gijón, also known as Xixón, is an important city that rivals Oviedo, the historical capital of the Autonomous Region and Principality of Asturias (Spain), in historical demographic and economic terms. It has traditionally been a port and, more recently, an industrial city, which experienced very rapid population growth and with little planning. After the industrial crisis of the 80s, the city wanted to become a tourist location more than an industrial harbor. Both its privileged location and the historical urban heritage that still remain are corner stones to make this change possible. However, the late and strict legislation (improvised to protect the last remains of a previously uncontrolled development) impeded a necessary urban re-design in order to shelter the new touristic supplies. This paper proposes some urban solutions to selectively modify the catalogue according with the cultural and touristic potentials of the city. These solutions were agreed by the working group set up by Gijón City Council and ERDU (Estudio de Renovación y Desarrollos Urbanos -Urban Renovation and Development Studio).
oai:ojs.upv.es:article/5758
2017-06-30T06:41:52Z
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oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/5817
2021-02-01T13:03:52Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/5817
2021-02-01T13:03:52Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016); 29-53
The Inhabited Threshold. The Limits of Dialectics in Julio Cano Lasso’s House
Peer-reviewed Article
Pancorbo Crespo, Luis; University of Virginia
Martín-Robles, Inés; University of Virginia
2016-10-27
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/5817
limit
threshold
in-between space
Spanish architecture
es_ES
Julio Cano’s house-office in La Florida is studied in this text as a clear realization of a conception of the domestic phenomenon as a threshold that sequentially articulates the transit between public and private space. It also serves to illustrate the character of limit that architecture has as a discipline and as a mechanism of spatial production. Julio Cano Lasso’s design tactic used in this building is based on the establishment of rites of passage and the limits of dialectics that link to the history of domestic architecture ranging from the traditional Japanese house to Wright’s Usonian houses. The exemplary character of the building resides in a lay out that shows quite literally a stratification which acts as a regulator of the relationship between the exterior and the interior of the house. This condition, simultaneously, subtly modulates both the degree of privacy of each room and the conditions of permeability among them.
oai:ojs.upv.es:article/5891
2016-11-04T11:47:08Z
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oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/6952
2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
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2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017); 119-147
Towards a pragmatic architecture. The case of Tous & Fargas
Peer-reviewed Article
Hernandez Falagan, David; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2017-10-24
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/6952
Tous & Fargas
pragmatism
architecture
technology
postmodernism
es_ES
Tous & Fargas were a unique case in the field of Spanish architecture of the second half of the 20th century. From the technical and industrial experimentation of their first works, they developed a nonconformist architecture within the realistic conditions characteristic of the time, propitiated by the economic, political and social context. Despite of this, they achieved a remarkable success carrying out designs of technological type and giving support to the industrial innovation of constructive systems. However, during the last stage of their collaboration, traits characteristic of the pragmatic drift are visible to which much of the architecture of the last quarter of the 20th century was subjected. The excess of mercantile concern for the real estate product, the excessive systematization of the typological models and the constructive systems, the lack of a consistent theoretical discourse or the abandonment of the technical investigation as a priority of innovation are some of the symptoms that characterize the pragmatic architecture of their latest works.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/6953
2021-05-14T12:43:39Z
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2021-05-14T12:43:39Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017); 55-85
The Plan of Equivalents. Mat-Rooming
Peer-reviewed Article
Colmenares, Silvia; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2017-10-24
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/6953
functional indifference
equivalency
matrix
room
mat-building
es_ES
Attention to the mechanisms by which certain architectural configurations are able to adapt to change defines a field of interest that has only been growing since the mid-twentieth century, after overcoming the exclusive dilemma between form and function. However, the influence of strategies based on the principle of free plan is still much greater than that of other proposals that are not based on the independence between supporting structure and distributive organization. The aim of this work is the definition of a genealogy for the idea of the plan of equivalents that is proposed as an alternative model of functional indifference, establishing a connection between the logics of pre-bourgeois domestic architecture and the most recent examples of programmatic experimentation in housing. The re-interpretation of some iteration techniques of elements developed in the 60s by the most critical generation with canonical modernity, together with the analysis of their associated operative vocabulary, will allow an outline to an approach of the inhabiting patterns based on the systematic proliferation of the room as a generic piece.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/6954
2017-07-14T13:34:55Z
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2017-07-14T13:34:55Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017); 97-124
The changing symbology of the ordinary. An American visual approach
Peer-reviewed Article
Santamarina-Macho, Carlos; Universidad de Valladolid
2017-04-26
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/6954
Commonplace
Man-made landscape
Vernacular architecture
Photography
United States of America
es_ES
The concept of “the ordinary” has become an ever more usual reference in the analysis of certain architectonic and territorial situations; but also social ones, which seem to escape any order set by planning. Nonetheless, the word still carries a rather ambiguous meaning, because not only the term is in itself polysemic, but also because it can have several interpretations, sometimes in a contradictory way, depending on the area of study, the time or the place in which it is used. This text addresses some of these apparent contradictions through a selection of visual expressions that emerge from the reassessment of “the ordinary” within a particular context: America in the seventies. To illustrate our views, we will use the work of two renowned photographers: David Plowden and Stephen Shore. Architecture was the centre focus of their images, which are part of the broad tradition of depicting American everyday life. We will analyse and compare them with the purpose of identifying their frictions and, more importantly, the values that transformed each of them from the ordinary into a perfect tool to deal with the strange and unstable material situation lived in post-war America.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/6963
2017-06-28T12:53:43Z
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2017-06-28T12:53:43Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017); 61-95
Underground urbanity: from the carrefour à étages multiples to the ‘inner street’
Peer-reviewed Article
Clua, Alvaro; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2017-04-26
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/6963
Urbanity
underground
Slussen
Schottentor
Stadelhofen
es_ES
As Manuel de Solà-Morales noted, urbanity relies on the variety and quality of relations between things, materials and human beings. Considered as such, how are we to achieve an underground urbanity? This paper seeks to address this question through a focussed reading of a number of European urban projects from the 20th century; all of which put special care into ensuring the quality of their subterranean passageways. We begin with the carrefour à giration, which was designed by Eugène Hénard in 1906, in order to identify four fundamental attributes of this kind of urbanity: legibility, spatiality, accessibility and activity. We then continue with a qualitative analysis of the 1933 Blå Bodarna passageway designed by Tage William-Olsson and Holger Blom in Slussen (Stockholm). Looking ahead some decades later, the sequence of passages under the Vienna Ring, built during the mayoralty of Franz J. Jonas, provides a good example of how fundamental the connectivity to the underground public transport system was to the success of these spaces. Finally, the article closes with a review of those underground places found in Santiago Calatrava’s Stadelhofen Station and the Stationsplein by Manuel de Solà-Morales: from the carrefour à étages multiples to the ‘inner street’.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/6967
2021-02-01T12:44:18Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017); 87-118
Theodor Goecke. The small dwelling in the German urban debate of the end of the nineteenth century
Peer-reviewed Article
Bosch Abarca, Jorge; Universitat Politècnica de València
2017-10-24
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/6967
urban form
small dwelling
Berlin
19th century
Theodor Goecke
es_ES
The last decade of the 19th century is especially relevant in Germany with relation to the matter of the working-class housing and its influence in the city shape. During previous years, this dwelling was developed inserted into the large and deep urban block with the few exceptions of occasional works of reform character produced by non-profit building societies. In Berlin, the small dwelling becomes, for the first time, in 1891, an object of attention of the professional collective of architects. With Theodor Goecke as one of its main figures, the debate on the urban form and the working-class housing model will lead towards new proposals for a green and extended city, where in addition to the tenement rental building, the single-family house will become increasingly present. The differentiation of traffics, with the consideration of a new type of street for a more domestic living, not foreseen in the significant nineteenth-century designs of the Berliner city, favour this protagonism and establishes a starting point for the new modern approaches that will consolidate in the German urban planning of the first European post-war.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/6987
2018-03-28T09:52:14Z
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2018-03-28T09:52:14Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017); 151-174
The exhibitions of El Lissitzky through Cine-Eye
Peer-reviewed Article
Paz-Agras, Luz; Universidade da Coruña
2017-04-26
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/6987
El Lissitzky
Cine-Eye
architecture
cinema
exhibition spaces
es_ES
The Avant-Garde movements of the twentieth century explored the creative possibilities of new types of media in architecture, such as the photographic camera or cinema. In a series of experimental projects, authors such as El Lissitzky based their work on assimilating the human eye with a mechanical lens, making it possible to create new concepts of space. A simultaneous consideration of the resources of Vertov’s Cine-Eye in relation to the exhibition projects of El Lissitzky reveals some of his proposals as paradigmatic examples of the perceptive experimentation of the viewer in relation to art, and in a wider sense, to architecture. By analysing the cinematic resources of the film Man with a Movie Camera (1929), architectural aspects are analysed in the exhibition spaces of the Abstract Cabinet and PRESSA, identifying connections that break down the boundaries between the different disciplines.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/6989
2020-10-20T11:50:39Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017); 125-149
Paimio´s Three Walls
Peer-reviewed Article
Grijalba Bengoetxea, Julio; Universidad de Valladolid
Grijalba Bengoetxea, Alberto; Universidad de Valladolid
2017-04-26
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/6989
Avar Aalto
Sanatorium
Paimio
Finnish Architecture
Modern Architecture
es_ES
Alvar Aalto´s career has certainly been a complex one and has been reported by official historiography to be divided into some more or less well-defined periods which correspond to unitary in time clusters of projects. Thus, Paimio has come to be for architecture the consolidation of the Modern Finnish Project at its apparently orthodox splendor. Aalto, from the very beginning, was attracted by the possibility of generating his own project message. This may be the reason why he found researching into the evocative power of opposite conciliation which allowed him to obtain efficient tools to service his project. The peculiar presence of opposing elements in the same project governs the task of defining a new way to conceive architecture. There are truths in Paimio that withstand and refuse to be concealed under the apparent modern uniformity so many times appraised. All this becomes obvious and in many of the project syntax elements, but it is especially evident in the layout of the three walls of the rooms: the modern wall that stand weightless, defined by its immaterial abstraction; the heavy wall, defined by its physic features and bond to the XIX century tradition; and finally, the wall with an immaterial vocation, endowed with almost invisible features, and of deep eastern roots.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/6991
2017-04-26T12:23:02Z
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2017-04-26T12:23:02Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017); 175-181
Alison and Peter Smithson: The Space Between. Edited by Max Risselada
Book Review
Abalos Ramos, Ana; Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera
2017-04-26
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/6991
Alison Smithson
Peter Smithson
Max Risselada
space between
charged void
es_ES
The Space Between (Walther König, Cologne, 2016) is the third part of the trilogy about the work of Alison and Peter Smithson seen through their own eyes. It follows The Charged Void: Architecture (2001) and The Charged Void: Urbanism (2005) both published by Monacelli Press, New York. This long-awaited book by Walther König features the same layout and general design as the two previous volumes but has a personality all of its own. The Space Between includes more than forty writings spanning the Smithsons’ entire career and features a wealth of illustrations from their own archives. Just as the The Charged Void was not merely a work about their work, this essential new volume is far more than just a compilation of their thoughts.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7006
2018-03-28T09:15:06Z
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2018-03-28T09:15:06Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017); 1-29
Perret & Piacentini. A Comparative Analysis of Two Parallel Architectures
Peer-reviewed Article
Alonso Pereira, José Ramón; Universidad de La Coruña
2017-04-26
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7006
Perret
Piacentini
Italian Architecture
French Architecture
Novecento
es_ES
It is very common to understand the home of the masters of architecture as a manifesto of their respective architectures. Nevertheless, those houses are usually identified with single-family models, relegating collective examples. Only the apartment-atelier that Le Corbusier elevated in Porte Molitor (1930-33) is saved from this oblivion. However, there are at the same time two other examples of house-studio by two masters of the moment: Perret and Piacentini. Both are parallel in their vital dynamics and in their programs: The Roman house-studio of Piacentini in Lungotevere Tor di Nona (1929-31) and the Parisian building of Raynouard (1929-33), where Perret established his home and his agence (office). The coincidence of theme and the parallelism of place facilitate the comparative analysis in a common historical time, with their debates between tradition and vanguard.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7011
2018-03-28T09:14:22Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7011
2018-03-28T09:14:22Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017); 31-60
Exploratory gazes. Unpublished photographs of Asís Cabrero's Italian trip
Peer-reviewed Article
Aldea Hernández, María José; Universidad de Navarra
Bergera, Iñaki; University of Zaragoza
2017-04-26
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7011
Cabrero
photography
trip
Italy
gaze
es_ES
As was the case in not just a few of his contemporaries, Francisco Cabrero's modern advent is centred on his initial trip, in this case the one made to Italy in 1941. The historiography of Spanish architecture in general and the specific studies on the architect have shown the impact and the scope of this two-month trip on his later career. Fleeing the ruling academicism in Spain, Cabrero 'discovers' in Italy the rationalist and abstract expression of monumentality. Nevertheless, the access to a wide photographic reportage "”unpublished up to now"” accomplished by the architect during the trip, allows us to document his journey but also to put in to question those claims. The photographs introduce us for the first time to Cabrero the photographer "”to his particular way of constructing an image"” and as a result they pave the way for the recognition of this visual tool as an exploratory instrument of the gaze to the detriment of the pencil and notebook. Above all and paradoxically, they contradict the supposed fascination for modern language in Cabrero since discovering that historical architecture was almost the only objective of his selective photographic look and as a result, the primary source, of his transforming inspiration.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7144
2021-02-18T16:26:59Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018); 1-32
The last urban development project by Antonio Bonet: the SOS village (1970)
Peer-reviewed Article
Ródenas García, Juan Fernando; Universidad Rovira i Virgili
2018-04-19
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7144
Antonio Bonet
urbanism
village
vernacular architecture
landscape
es_ES
The SOS Children’s Village at Sant Feliu de Codines in Barcelona (1970), the Hifrensa village (completed), and the Prat I and II urban development plans (not completed) were the final major urban complexes designed by Antonio Bonet (not counting his projects for the tourist sector). At SOS, Bonet designed a residential ensemble for orphaned children comprising communal educational and sporting facilities, by recreating, on a human scale, the atmosphere of the villages depicted in the photographs published in issue 18 (1935) of the GATEPAC magazine AC Documentos de Actividad Contemporánea, which was dedicated to popular architecture. Whitewashed pavilions, vaults, porches, patios, walls and stone platforms arranged like agricultural terraces were the features by which he constructed the landscape of a modern village but with old-fashioned forms. In this paper we analyse this unprecedented work, which, although it was never constructed, expresses the architect’s singular interpretation of the countryside and habitability conditions for orphans. Moreover, this work concentrates the architect’s experience as an experienced urbanist who in the 1970s challenged his fundamental theoretical creed, the Athens Charter, from a historical perspective.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7708
2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7708
2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017); 149-177
“Trends and guerrillas in Spanish architecture” Architecture and press
Peer-reviewed Article
Ruiz Colmenar, Alberto; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2017-10-24
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7708
non-specialised press
dissemination
Spanish architecture
critique
20th Century
es_ES
Architecture critique has historically used specialised publications as a dissemination channel. These publications, written by and for architects, have been of seminal importance in the creation of architectural culture in Spain. Nevertheless, this type of publication leaves out the non-specialised public, mistakenly considering them alien to these matters. In this case, the mass media has filled this space, carrying out a very important educational role. Its task has not been that of a mere dissemination of contents, but it has also provided a platform for criticism and analysis of some of the main events in Spanish architecture over the course of the 20th Century. In this study we analyse the years preceding and following the Spanish Civil War. A review of the issues that the main papers addressed"”ABC and La Vanguardia"”allows us to grasp what the general reader perceived during a key period in our history of architecture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7710
2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
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2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017); 179-202
Altered Rhythms. Urban façades in post-war Milan
Peer-reviewed Article
Mària Serrano, Magda; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Musquera Felip, Silvia; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2017-10-24
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7710
modern architecture
urban façade
composition
rhythmic alteration
Milan
es_ES
Urban façades are the outward manifestation of the character of a city, and are composed of elements that respond to rhythmic sequences in consonance with the internal order of the rooms behind them. In post-war Milan, façades were used as a field of experimentation by a group of architects, some of whom were also artists and designers, who saw themselves and can be seen as ambassadors for the future modernity of a city devastated by war. This article explains how the urban façades of Milan, based as they were on the themes drawn from the Italian compositional tradition, offer a wide variety of elements, figures and rhythms, altering and transgressing the compositional canons through the use of mechanisms that in some cases are closer to painting or sculpture than to architecture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7713
2019-06-21T10:07:06Z
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2019-06-21T10:07:06Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018); 33-61
Notes about the Palais des Machines of 1889 in Paris: space, structure and ornament
Peer-reviewed Article
Linares de la Torre, Oscar; Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2018-04-19
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7713
Space
structure
ornament
project
es_ES
The Palais des Machines of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, designed by the architect Charles Louis Ferdinand Dutert (1845-1906) and the engineer Victor Contamin (1840-1893), is undoubtedly an icon of the 19th century architecture: its powerful spatiality, its portentous structure and its straightforward tectonics have rightly received high praise by critics and architects from the second half of the 20th century. However, critical tradition and historiography from the end of the last century have frequently offered a biased interpretation of this work, aimed at underlining certain architectonic values for then presenting them as a direct product of the author’s will. The aim of this article is to explain, altogether and with maximum transparency, how the conjunction between certain circumstantial issues and the will/ability of both authors made possible the construction of one of the most important works of the nineteenth-century architecture. To achieve this, the three most celebrated architectural aspects of the building are analysed: the huge scale of the central space, the particular structural system chosen and the uneven usage of ornament.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7718
2021-02-18T16:06:05Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018); 185-192
Rafael Moneo. Building. Teaching. Writing. Francisco González de Canales and Nicholas Ray
Book Review
García-Asenjo Llana, David; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2018-04-19
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7718
Rafael Moneo
Francisco González de Canales
Nicholas Ray
Architectural Philosophy
Teaching
es_ES
La larga trayectoria de Rafael Moneo no se puede entender sólo desde su aportación a la disciplina con la construcción de edificios, sino también desde su labor docente, y la producción teórica y crítica a lo largo de toda su carrera. Su pensamiento arquitectónico es uno de los aspectos que menos atención ha recibido hasta el momento, y por tanto era necesario un trabajo que lo analizase para completar los estudios sobre su figura. Francisco González de Canales y Nicholas Ray realizan una disección de la carrera de Moneo poniendo especial atención en su filosofía arquitectónica como parte fundamental a la hora de entender su obra construida.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7720
2019-06-21T10:09:25Z
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2019-06-21T10:09:25Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018); 63-94
Glimpses of Alvar Aalto in the opera prima of Antonio Fernández Alba (1959-62)
Peer-reviewed Article
Pérez-Moreno, Lucía C.; Zaragoza University, School of Engineering and Architecture.
2018-04-19
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7720
Education
gender
Bruno Zevi
Spanish architecture
es_ES
Antonio Fernández Alba’s work of the nineteen-sixties has been described fundamentally as ‘organic’, alluding to its consonances with the architecture of Alvar Aalto. This text examines the reading that Fernández Alba presented about the culture of Finnish architecture in several writings published in the Madrid journal Arquitectura, among which the essay “Human and Aesthetic values in Finnish Design” published in 1962 stands out. Reflections presented in this text were manifested in his design for the School of Nuestra Señora Santa María in Madrid, a project in which Fernández Alba was working at that time. Whilst remaining true to the requirements of a Catholic girl’s school, Fernández Alba’s project shows his interest in designing an architecture conducive to play, connected with the surrounding nature, not governed by preconceived forms, sympathetic in its choice of materials, and free in the use and enjoyment of its facilities. In short, an architectural design that considered the psychophysical needs of the female students and teachers, so that a ‘humanized architecture’ emerged, alluding to the well-known essay by Aalto written in 1940.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7899
2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017); 1-27
Facts of society and new spatialities
Peer-reviewed Article
Eleb, Monique; Laboratoire A.C.S. de l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, UMR/AUSSER C.N.R.S./ M.C.C. n°3329
Bendimérad, Sabri; Laboratoire A.C.S. de l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, UMR/AUSSER C.N.R.S./ M.C.C. n°3329
2017-10-24
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7899
Habitat
Inhabitants
Lifestyle
Cohabitation
Shared House
en_US
New spatial devices appear when society changes. Today families are restructuring, the domestic group is recomposing, practices are evolving and housing should follow. How can it be transformed to adapt to the life conditions and the lifestyle desired by singles of any age, families -either monoparental or blended-, by the elderly? Experiences in many countries are described here, showing the diversity of the devices proposed and their underlying ideals. They range from a simple practical solution to live in a contemporary way, particularly because of the porosity between habitat and work, to the ambition to change life starting with housing. Built in several countries, they also have very different scales. A simple house shared by friends in Japan or Holland, they can also gather very large groups in Sweden or Switzerland. A long survey on cohabitation in France helps to feed the authors’ reflection.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/7980
2021-02-18T16:21:50Z
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2021-02-18T16:21:50Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018); 95-125
The Fuente de la Sábana and the baroque stage of the suburban villa El Bosque de Béjar
Peer-reviewed Article
Muñoz Domínguez, José; Centro de Estudios Bejaranos
2018-04-19
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7980
Suburban recreational villa
Renaissance garden
French baroque garden
Ducal House of Béjar
El Bosque de Béjar
es_ES
Most of the studies published on the suburban village El Bosque de Béjar (Salamanca) focus on its Renaissance period, when it was created by Duke Francisco de Zúñiga y Sotomayor, leaving in the background the contributions of other later dukes. The article documents the Baroque reforms of French inspiration projected in the period 1705-1727 by Juan Manuel Diego Lopez de Zúñiga y Castro, XI attenuated, who began with the construction of the so-called Fuente de la Sábana (ca. 1705) and included a walk with “gazon” bands, a “potager”, large pots with orange trees, a park and a “fondería” (distillery) attended by botanist masters. The projects, probably inspired by the Abbe Emmanuel Jouin, were partly executed and are among the earlier ones of the first Bourbon period within the environment of the nobility.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/8641
2021-02-18T15:57:44Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018); 29-58
The influence of Leberecht Migge in the creation of the modern productive Siedlungen
Peer-reviewed Article
Arredondo Garrido, David; Universidad de Granada
2018-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/8641
Leberecht Migge
food self-sufficiency
housing
Weimar Republic
urban agriculture
es_ES
Agriculture and food production has not been a central issue in the discourse of contemporary architecture and urbanism. In spite of this, it is possible to recover some interesting projects of architects who made serious efforts to reverse the disconnection between rural and urban worlds. Professionals who looked for a direct relationship between house functionality and food production. Some periods of crisis, like the interwar period in Central Europe, created an ideal atmosphere for the appearance of proposals that sought the food self-sufficiency of its inhabitants. This article aims to contextualize the role of the landscape architect Leberecht Migge and his connections with some architects in the creation of the modern Siedlungen. Migge's labor was eclipsed by the great masters of the Modern Movement with whom he worked, but he played a key role in the success of productive housing. His theoretical work and his designs stand out as the most effective and relevant modern Siedlungen where agriculture is fully integrated with housing. This trend ran parallel to the most groundbreaking proposals of the Modern Movement, but only for an ephemeral journey. Once the crisis that allowed its flowering was overcome, these same architects forgot self-sufficiency forever as an objective of their interventions.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/8713
2021-02-18T16:28:10Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018); 127-151
Goethe among the Ancients: Nature and Architecture
Peer-reviewed Article
Rubio Garrido, Alberto; Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación
2018-04-19
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/8713
Goethe
Sicily
architecture
myth
archetype
es_ES
During his trip to Sicily, a striking triad influenced Goethe. In the first place, a certain mythological predisposition presides over his descriptions. Second, he includes in his narration digressions about geology, geography, and botany. Finally, he dwells on detailed allusions to his artistic experiences, which include principally those related to architecture. As a result, Goethe combined in Sicily the experience of the ancient myth with the intimate conviction that feeling the natural and the Greek, as far as architecture is concerned, joins him to a meaning with validity in his time.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/8900
2021-02-01T13:06:22Z
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2021-02-01T13:06:22Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018); 59-89
The Cinéac movie theatres of Adrienne Gorska and Pierre de Montaut: to adapt a “type”
Peer-reviewed Article
Moreno, María Pura; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
2018-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/8900
Adrienne Gorska
Pierre de Montaut
Cinéac
architecture
publicity
es_ES
From the 1930’s on, a variant in the western architecture of movie theatres built in previous decades came to light. This variant, smaller and more unassuming in its decoration and size, was the result of another economic context and, above all, of a novel programming of newscasts and documentaries in short sessions and continuous slideshows called, depending on the country of your projection, ‘newsreels’, ‘cinegiornali’, ‘actualités filmées’, or ‘wochenschauen’. The establishment of the chain of movie theatres ‘Cinéac -cinéma et actualités’ in French-speaking countries, mainly by the entrepreneur Reginald Ford, gave rise to the proposal of spatial and technical answers to the demands of aspects such as acoustics, optics, a continuous flow of people, safety or ventilation, from the sector of architecture which was most functionalist. In this article the Cinéac built by the architects Adrienne Gorska and Pierre de Montaut, pioneers in projects for this program of leisure, will be analysed. The aim is to demonstrate the technical rigor on which constructiveness, as the leitmotiv of longed for perception, was based. The critical re-reading of layouts and sections will reveal that, behind the prominence of bright facades, there were hidden spatial criteria different from those of the previous cinemas, leading to, as a whole, what was to be a typological adaptation to a function that had already been established
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2021-02-18T16:13:30Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018); 91-126
Workers' right to rest: the 'Ciudad Sindical de Vacaciones' of Marbella
Peer-reviewed Article
Loren-Méndez, Mar; Universidad de Sevilla
Pinzón-Ayala, Daniel; Universidad de Sevilla
2018-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/8901
History of architecture
social and leisure architecture
contemporary heritage
Francoist Architecture
Trade Union Welfare Fund for ‘Education and Rest’
es_ES
The worker’s right to rest constituted a new right in the construction of world peace after the First World War. Drawing on primary sources, the study begins with an overview of legislation ranging from the regulation of weekly weekend rest to annual holidays, analyzing public European proposals for holidays in the interwar years, distinguishing those designed to ensure rest for workers specifically within the context of the city. The newly acquired right was most warmly embraced by totalitarian regimes, converted into a prize, a charitable act, or an opportunity for indoctrination and control. Focusing on the case of Spain, the research presents the Ciudades Sindicales de Vacaciones, Trade Union Holiday Towns, as the culmination of the public promotion of rest for workers under Franco’s regime, subsequently giving way to private initiative and mass tourism. The research presents the Trade Union Holiday Town of Marbella as the ultimate prototype for a specific typology, analyzing its values through a projective approach to territory, providing new documentary evidence of its evolution and current status, and offering a reflection on the loss of values brought about by such transformations in light of findings made.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/8940
2021-02-18T16:08:05Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018); 127-158
A Mosque in Valencia: The chapel of Grupo Benéfico San Francisco Javier. A. Gómez Davó
Peer-reviewed Article
Gómez Gil, Antonio Miguel; Universitat Politècnica de València
2018-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/8940
Valencian Mosque
the Grupo Benéfico San Francisco Javier
Antonio Gómez Davó
Maghreb architecture
Islamic eclecticism
es_ES
In Valencia there was a large building complex, the Grupo Benéfico San Francisco Javier in the district of Campanar, built in Spanish neo-colonial style, now disappeared. Among many of its endowments was a chapel designed in Maghrebi style (1941), which, of the entire ensemble, is the only construction currently left standing. The article, written with unpublished material, reveals the building and analyses the author, the Valencian architect Antonio Gómez Davó, to verify whether or not he acted with archaeological rigor in its design. For this, its building elements and parameters have been compared with other existing religious buildings in North Africa. This analysis shows efficiency in the floor plan and other parameters, for its use as a Catholic church. There is, on the other hand, a Maghrebi archaeological project rigor; in terms of its construction system, its forms and its decoration. We must also highlight the wise decision of including in the chapel a missing Spanish historical architectural element, such as the roof of the convent of San Juan de la Penitencia de Toledo. This non-Islamic element was skillfully integrated into the Maghreb environment of the Campanar chapel.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/8945
2021-02-18T16:06:49Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018); 153-183
Paradigm, experiment and conclusion: La Casa by Bernard Rudofsky in three acts
Peer-reviewed Article
García-Diego Villarías, Héctor; Universidad de Navarra
Villanueva Fernández, María; Universidad de Navarra
2018-04-19
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/8945
Rudofsky
popular architecture
paradigm
reference
casa
house
es_ES
La Casa –or in English, the house– that Bernard Rudofsky built on the Spanish Mediterranean coast in 1971 is a valuable case study on the operational possibilities of popular architecture in the practice of this contemporary discipline. It is a repository of theoretical references typical of the vernacular world; its author, known for the exhibition Architecture without Architects, is emblematic of this type of architecture to which he dedicated much of his efforts as a theorist and polemicist throughout the course of his life. Additionally, La Casa is a unique architectural feat as it involves the practical materialization of its implicated theoretical position. It is possible that a concrete conclusion can be drawn from this case, which may shed light on the possible operability of a type of architecture that presents more than a few difficulties for the current context of the discipline, despite being habitually admired and praised. Additionally, the text presented here brings to light unpublished information found in the personal diaries of the architect that allows for the recreation of the circumstances surrounding the ideation and construction of this piece of architecture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/8982
2021-02-18T15:56:33Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019); 153-186
BGB and BSC Systems (1949-56). The prefabricated dwellings of Antonio Bonet
Peer-reviewed Article
Torres-Dorado, Salud María; Universidad de Sevilla
Añón-Abajas, Rosa María; Universidad de Sevilla
2019-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/8982
Antonio Bonet Castellana
BGB System
BSC System
prefabricated dwellings
variable standard
es_ES
As a result of Antonio Bonet’s first experiences with prefabrication, and his interest in geometry and the modulation of space, during his Argentinian stage in the 1950s, he developed two trials of totally industrialised serial dwellings. The BGB and BSC Systems, were two constructive models of comprehensive prefabrication that Bonet designed as possible technical solutions to the housing problems, and with which he attempted to improve the middle-of-the-road construction, between the traditional and the standardised. Without losing their references, contextualised within their production, and within the international debate around housing industrialisation, both systems were designed from the habitable space and from its tectonics, surpassing the technical or the constructive, to give rise to the quality of the architectural object. Contemplated as generalizable prototypes, Bonet designed a single-family house in the case of the BGB System, and a block of houses for a neighbourhood unit in the BSC System. In spite of the difference of scale, both prototypes considered the complete prefabrication of the house by means of perfectly modulated elements that would allow variations, and which would resolve the small interior scale of the furniture, the structure or the envelope.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/9928
2021-02-18T16:18:58Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018); 175-202
Space, Shape and Structure in the 50x50’ House by Mies van der Rohe
Peer-reviewed Article
Díaz Segura, Alfonso; Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU
Serra Soriano, Bartolomé; Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU
Meri de la Maza, Ricardo; Universitat Politècnica de València
2018-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/9928
space
shape
structure
Mies van der Rohe
housing
es_ES
During the American stage of Mies the beauty of the constructive precision and the essentiality of space is emphasized, which subordinates the program to formal purity. Form is not invented, nor is it the corollary of function or technology, but is the result of placing transcendent and timeless values on secondary issues. The architect must establish an order that assures the formality of the work, but in modernity the systematic classicist rules no longer run. So the goodness of the result is a consequence of the ability of the architect and the user to share visual codes. The effort of Mies in this stage will be to establish certain certainties, universal and clear, developed around the relation among space, structure and shape. The Fifty by Fifty feet house marks a turning point in these intentions and points the path of his latest works.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10017
2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
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2019-04-30T12:02:26Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018); 159-173
Domestic architecture in 16th century Seville: San Salvador
Peer-reviewed Article
Núñez-González, María; Universidad de Sevilla
2018-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10017
Seville
16th century
domestic architecture
apeo
glossary
en_US
This study is based on historical documents belonging to the most important ecclesiastical institution in Seville during the 16th century. The Cathedral’s archives have been consulted, with special focus on the section devoted to books of written descriptive records of houses (called ‘apeos’) that belonged to the Cabildo (Chapter) in 1542. These records not only documented the physical distribution of the houses with measurements in Castilian yards of the different parts of the house, but also described the more qualitative features of the interior architectural design. The main purpose of this study is to characterize the typical Sevillian houses from historical documents of the period focused on the collation of San Salvador. By way of a novel methodology, the following steps have been developed: first, an architectural analysis; second, a typology of houses based on functions, dimensions, construction, lay-out, etc.; third, a detailed glossary of architectural terms listed to permit a rigorous understanding of the domestic architecture in 16th century Seville; and finally, an example of every documented record has been drawn. Among the most significant conclusions is that the Sevillian dwellings of that period reflected the Islamic terminology, architecture, construction and lay-out typical of Andalusia, but with distinctive features of Sevillian housing.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10399
2021-02-18T15:58:36Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019); 187-217
Strategy of aesthetic-importance (post-structuralist) in the Holocaust Memorial
Peer-reviewed Article
Barrera Puigdollers, José Manuel; Universitat Politècnica de València
2019-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10399
différance
différence
contamination
event
time
es_ES
Since it was selected in 1998, the Memorial has been immersed in numerous debates that reached a level of controversy throughout 2017. This work conceived by Peter Eisenman and Richard Serra, was modified and carried out only by Peter Eisenman. The debates and controversies amassed have allowed for certain clarifications that exceed the original claims of the authors, but in any case, it seems that they were confirmed in their possibility or in their contingency. These facts show the relationship between the object and subject in the significant act, in its different approaches: from the interaction with the work, the intersubjective relations – self-referent or not – the interaction between subject and object, subject and context, subject and interpretation. Until moving the significant capability from the original indications to the new context, that can in any case re-configure a new sign. In this, the sketch is seen as a post-metaphysical aesthetic structure beyond the concept of an open work; adding the temporal dimension that underlines the distinction between difference and differ, in two moments: the constitution of the sign and its temporary displacement. This exemplifies the concepts of différence and différance by Jacques Derrida, together with the concepts of contamination or the appearance of contraband meanings, including the event that Eisenman longed for.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10619
2021-02-18T16:30:39Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018); 1-28
Eco-neighbourhoods: the last frustrated outline of the great history of Utopia?
Peer-reviewed Article
Violeau, Jean-Louis; École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Nantes
2018-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10619
Utopia
eco-neighbourhoods
urban dispersion
degrowth
Lacaton & Vassal
es_ES
Utopia today draws a critical horizon rather than a promising future. Too often, this promise may have been a tool to plea for patience and justify the immediate sacrifices in the name of a nebulous future. For a long time the construction of the city was an integral part of a larger project to build a new society. But under the contemporary aegis of "sustainable development", the new sentence is yet to take an original form. In eco-neighbourhoods, the plot is still despotic, and it only re-emerges from its box under the spectre of heliotropism, under the aegis of thermal performance and of neighbourhood plans dictated by the housing orientation. As for the "smart city" -a discovery of the field of marketing-, it will always draw a smile in our faces. Whereas sustainable development emerged in the 2000s as a soft and unanimous slogan, degrowth took over in the 2010s, turning into a hard cleaving slogan. But how to envision the "project" within this horizon without adopting a regressive posture?
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10663
2019-07-29T13:30:43Z
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2019-07-29T13:30:43Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019); 97-124
Sverre Fehn and the primitive architecture of Morocco
Peer-reviewed Article
Rincón Borrego, Iván Israel; Universidad de Valladolid
2019-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10663
Sverre Fehn
Morocco
Primitive Architecture
Jorn Utzon
es_ES
Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn took a trip to Morocco in 1951 which is one of the most remarkable steps of his beginnings as an architect, but also one of the most unknown. Until now, nearing the tenth anniversary of his death in February 2009, research on the Nordic author has ignored the need to study the journey in depth. This has been treated on many occasions just as a confessed starting point in his career. This paper rebuilds, organizes and analyses the trip using the original notebooks that Sverre Fehn brought with him on his return, three and not one, as has always been claimed, which were left to the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway. The researcher explores the traveller’s thoughts through the places and constructions encoded in his drawings. Following Jorn Utzon’s advice, Fehn recognized the inspiring dimension that primitive architecture had for the masters of the Modern Movement and, therefore, for their own modern cultural heritage.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10692
2021-02-18T16:00:13Z
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2021-02-18T16:00:13Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019); 89-119
Punta Umbría: the fourth holiday city of “Education and Rest” in Spain
Peer-reviewed Article
Carcelén González, Ricardo; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
2019-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10692
History of architecture
Trade Union Organization “Education and Rest”
Punta Umbría Trade Union City
holiday model
urban planning
es_ES
In the middle of the 20th century, the pro-Franco Spanish government promoted a new holiday model for the regulation of rest and leisure for the working classes in the country: the holiday cities of Education and Rest Originating with the State’s vision to create tourist spaces, this research reviews the press of the time, to contrast the success of these complexes built in the 50’s in Tarragona, Perlora and Marbella. The results lead us to formulate the hypothesis of the possible continuity of this holiday model in the final stage of Franco’s regime. Revealing the existence of new study cases becomes the main goal of this work. In order to do so, the research shows unpublished documentation of the original project for a fourth holiday city of Education and Rest in Punta Umbría, Huelva, designed in 1968 by the architect Francisco de la Corte López. Although it would not be constructed, a study of the project documentation allows us to consider the influence that the context of the 60s had on that new holiday model in our country.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10827
2021-02-18T16:11:31Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019); 29-66
Mies in Canada: an overview of his projects and works in Toronto and Montreal
Peer-reviewed Article
La Spina, Vincenzina; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
2019-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10827
Mies
Canada
multifunction complexes
apartments
gas station
es_ES
The main goal of this paper is to show the work of the Modern Movement architect Mies van der Rohe in Canada. A total of 7 projects, 2 of them not implemented and an urban collaboration in the cities of Toronto and Montreal. Most of them are not relatively unknown projects with the exception of the Toronto-Dominion Centre and the Westmount Square in Montreal. These projects were carried out in the 1960s, in his last creative period, when he was over 70. Nevertheless, these projects are unique and iconic, the architect redeveloped and improved solutions and ideas already used in previous projects, and also addressed a different architectural use, the gas station. Mies’s Canadian work adapts his architecture typologies morphologically: high-rise building, pavilion building and the combination of both in complexes paying attention to urban configuration. Consequently, each project is analysed from a historical, typological and compositional perspective, paying attention to its particularities and linking these to other projects by the architect, mainly in the United States.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10833
2021-02-18T16:25:19Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019); 27-55
Cambridge Servicemen’s Memorial (Breuer, 1945): a public space for remembrance
Peer-reviewed Article
Sanchís Gisbert, Salvador José; Universitat Politècnica de València
Ponce Gregorio, Pedro; Universitat Politècnica de València
Peris Blat, Ignacio; Universitat Politècnica de València
2019-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10833
Public space
Marcel Breuer
Memorial War
Cambridge
Bauhaus
es_ES
Marcel Breuer was in the first year of architectural technicians to graduate from Bauhaus School. The peculiar education he received there allowed him to explore the concept of design in its broadest sense. In his European stage we find, on the most private and small scale, unique solutions for furniture. In his first American stage we see a strong commitment with solutions related to the residential land and, when he earned international recognition, he developed large scale solutions for his public non-residential buildings and urban equipments in locations all over the world. It is strange to see that an architect like him did not have the opportunity to materialize any of his proposals associated with the public space. The 1945 Cambridge Servicemen’s Memorial project, also known as the Memorial War, is the most significant one he developed in his last years in Cambridge. Had it been built, it would have been a valuable example of modernity and contemporary reinterpretation of the monument in the public space.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10901
2021-02-18T16:30:06Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020); 33-63
A Rocky garden. Five (Woodblock) Prints of Ryōan-ji
Peer-reviewed Article
Vela Castillo, José; IE University
2020-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10901
Ryōan-ji
dry Gardens
spatiality
temporality
trace
es_ES
Five (woodblock) prints of Ryōan-ji presents five approaches to the famous dry garden located in the homonymous temple in Kyoto. The aim has been to explore through them different peculiarities of this garden, and by extension, of Japanese dry gardens of Zen inspiration. The fields explored include narrative (Kawabata), music (Cage and Takemitsu), cinema (Ozu, Iimura) and architecture (Isozaki and Mies, in passing). The main intention has not been to give a unitary vison of Ryōan-ji. Instead, like the dazzle at the end of a haiku, I tried to build a mechanism of partial enlightenments, to show, at least partially, its complex essence. A mechanism which, simultaneously, sheds light on the narrative, the music and the architecture presented. The real protagonist of the text is the particular spatiality that this garden brings to life and the temporality that goes along with it; but also the constant correspondences of the play of traces and possible meanings disseminated across the different media.
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2019-11-14T13:58:40Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10939
2019-11-14T13:58:40Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019); 1-26
SFMA, MoMA and the Codification of Bay Region Architecture (1935-1953)
Peer-reviewed Article
Parra-Martínez, José; University of Alicante
Crosse, John; Independent Scholar
2019-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10939
Bay Region architecture
SFMA & MoMA exhibitions
Morley-Bauer-Mock connections
California and Eastern criticism
East Coast-West Coast cultural conflicts
en_US
This paper addresses the under-recognized implications of SFMA’s early architectural exhibition program. Conceived under founding director Grace Morley, a series of pioneering events first presented Bay Area architects’ work as interdependent with the region’s rich geographical and cultural context, offering new lens through which Eastern critics prompted to re-evaluate California modernism. Among these shows, the 1949 landmark exhibition Domestic Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Region would epitomize the postwar discussions upon the autonomy of American modern architecture. Correspondingly, by exploring SFMA-MoMA exchanges during Elizabeth Mock’s curatorship, this essay aims to examine the conflict of perceptions and intentions between the country’s two Coasts that brought about the 1949 show as part of a well-orchestrated campaign that had begun years before Lewis Mumford’s 1947 New Yorker piece triggered a controversy over the existence of a “Bay Region Style.” Contrary to prevailing assumptions that this exhibition was a delayed reaction to the 1948 MoMA symposium organized by Philip Johnson to refute Mumford’s arguments, it was the consequence of an effective regionalist agenda whose success was, precisely, that many influential actors in the United States were exposed, indoctrinated and/or seduced by the so-called Bay Region School’s emphasis on social, political and ecological concerns.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10947
2020-03-18T09:41:19Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019); 57-87
A Grammar of Muqarnas: Drawings of the Alhambra by Jones and Goury (1834-1845)
Peer-reviewed Article
Gámiz Gordo, Antonio; Universidad de Sevilla
Ferrer Pérez-Blanco, Ignacio; École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
2019-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10947
Muqarnas
Alhambra
drawing
Jones
Goury
en_US
The muqarnas of the Nasrid Alhambra stand out as one of the most singular architectural episodes of Medieval Islamic art due to their sophisticated three-dimensional construction, whose layout remains little known. In 1834 and 1837, the architects Owen Jones and Jules Goury visited the monument in Granada and accomplished surprising drawings thereof, later published towards 1842-1845 as chromolithograph prints, which represented its architecture, ornaments, and muqarnas in a systematic way for the first time. In order to value their pioneering drawings, the historical data is briefly reviewed and several previous drawings of the Alhambra are cited. After consideration of a few questions regarding the process of data collection in Granada, a comparative analysis is presented of a cornice, a capital, an arch and a pendentive, with photos and computer-aided drawings. Thus, the principles or elementary grammar of muqarnas groupings described by these architects are highlighted, as well as the precision of their images, which resulted crucial to integrate and disseminate the architectural legacy of the Alhambra in the contemporary Western culture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10953
2021-05-19T11:34:14Z
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2021-05-19T11:34:14Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020); 97-122
Two caverns, a garden, and a thousand stars: the small store in Spain, 1929-1979
Peer-reviewed Article
Cano Redondo, Armando; Escuela Superior de Diseño de la Región de Murcia
Martínez-Medina, Andrés; Universidad de Alicante
2020-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10953
Commercial interiors
modern spaces
nature metaphors
cavern-garden-stars
imagination landscape
es_ES
Small commercial establishments have the double condition of interior and exterior place, of public and private space and, therefore, also of culture –associated with the habitability of the interior– and by nature –linked to the unprotected exterior–. The result of this coexistence is the culturalization, through artifice, of nature within the commercial space. In the context of modernity, architectural projects emerge where nature also nourishes the imaginary quality of the business by building a new seductive spatiality through the metaphor of “typical elements from nature.” By means of a tour of modern stores in Spain (1929-1979), these being testing and research laboratories for their authors for larger-scale works, the design and execution of different scenographies for sales and commercial service are studied, from the approach through figurative representation of their elements –including direct use of these– to produce the materialisation of a metaphorical “interior landscape,” to the abstraction of the image of nature generating the environment and the envelope of a “landscape of the imagination.” A succinct journey that will take as its point of departure the cave –the primordial underworld– passing through the garden –the earthly – to end in the sky –the supra world–.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10965
2021-02-18T16:00:50Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019); 121-146
Jorge Oteiza and Mariano Garrigues at INIA (1951-57): a crossroads of two modernities
Peer-reviewed Article
Labarta Aizpún, Carlos; Universidad de Zaragoza
Delgado Orusco, Eduardo; Universidad de Zaragoza
2019-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10965
es_ES
The fruitful decade of the nineteen-fifties, although a widely studied period, harbours unexpected eventualities, such as the confluence of a resolutely experimental sculptor and an architect of a more possibilistic nature. The circumstances surrounding the encounter and revelation of this joint work, very rarely mentioned in the corresponding literature, can be seen as an event that contributes to verifying, once again, the multi-faceted soul of the modern movement in Spain, whose fruitfulness was a result of its inherent hybridity, strengthened by the challenge of creating any classification. In this case, it is concluded that Oteiza’s piece, the result of his investigation into the spatial implications of the wall, is juxtaposed against the building by Garrigues without achieving a real dialogue with the incipient modernism in the architecture of the institute.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10967
2019-07-29T13:37:06Z
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2019-07-29T13:37:06Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019); 67-95
Drawing. The first construction of Paul Rudolph’s architecture
Peer-reviewed Article
Cervero Sánchez, Noelia; Universidad de Zaragoza
2019-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10967
Rudolph
architecture
drawing
perspective
building
es_ES
The American architect Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) conceded drawing a fundamental role in his creative process, which corresponded to a highly emotional conception of architecture. During his training and first years of work, he acquired a type of representation that allowed him to convey his personal vision of each project. His relentless will to overcome the International Style was based on six determinants: environment, natural conditions, materials, function, psychological demands of the space and spirit of times, which guided him in the search for answers and marked his work until the end of the sixties, when he achieved his creative maturity. Taking the drawing as the axis of the investigation, we analyse how these factors intervene in his residential projects in Florida, whose tectonics he conceived based on the spatial unit; in his collective housing projects, whose social facet he channelled towards urban modular groups; and in his projects of a monumental scale, whose materiality he imagined and defined accurately. In all of them spatial and constructive decisions relate intimately to his method of representation, establishing a continuous parallelism between drawing and building.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10973
2021-02-01T12:51:08Z
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2021-02-01T12:51:08Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019); 125-151
Still time in four gazes
Peer-reviewed Article
Grijalba Bengoetxea, Julio; Universidad de Valladolid
Grijalba Bengoetxea, Alberto; Universidad de Valladolid
Rodríguez Andrés, Jairo; Universidad de Valladolid
2019-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10973
Time
project
evocation
fragment
unity
es_ES
According to Lessing’s theory, time and space are the concept bases of aesthetics. Architecture belongs to the realm of space, following this theory. There is no unitary discourse that substantiates the presence and the representation of time in Architecture. Our approach in this paper is based on the idea that the attributes of time and its passage, understood in their deep sense, are nothing but an essential issue of Architectural Project. Thus, the construction of our discourse hinges on four gazes to four projects, as defined in the first of “Four Quarters” by T.S. Elliot, published in 1936. The outside wall of the experimental house of Muuratsalo represents the gaze to a previous ruin, confronted with the detained time by the white that covers everything. The fragment of the wall of Sankt Markus, by Björhagen, evokes the lost unity. The courtyard enclosure of the Värmlan Regional Museum is a look in two different times. Finally, the outside wall of the Särestö Museum explores the bond between Architecture and nature throughout time.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10981
2021-02-18T16:09:08Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10981
2021-02-18T16:09:08Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020); 125-155
The teaching of architecture as a result of a misunderstood triad
Peer-reviewed Article
Onecha Pérez, Belén; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
González Moreno-Navarro, José Luis; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Puntos Pérez, Sonsoles; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2020-10-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10981
Triad
Teaching of Architecture
Vitruvius
Perrault
Architectural Treatises
es_ES
The aim of this article is to show the origin and subsequent persistence of a way of organizing, from fragmentation, the teaching of architecture. To this end, an analysis of generalist historical treatises is carried out, highlighting, on one side, the differences in the organizational structure of the contents, on the other, in the approaches to the ends and means of architecture and, finally, in its interpretation of the original Vitruvian Triad. And it is the version of Perrault in his Abrégé of 1674 that radically misunderstood it, creating a structure that destroys the global vision of Architecture. With him begins the division into three parts; construction, distribution and decoration that will influence all subsequent treatises, except for two French authors, who already in the early and mid-nineteenth century rejected it by proposing other integrative alternatives. All in all, tripartite fragmentation, with a clear predominance of the third, firmly maintains its presence until the 20th century, and even today.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10989
2021-02-18T16:27:32Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019); 147-174
Carlo Scarpa: architecture, abstraction and museology
Peer-reviewed Article
Ros Campos, Andrés; Cardenal Herrera University-CEU
2019-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10989
Carlo Scarpa
architecture
exhibitions
museology
abstraction
es_ES
The last year that Carlo Scarpa taught at the IUAV, he proposed a civic museum as the topic of the course, in particular in the old Santa Caterina Convent in Treviso, which is currently the headquarters of the archive of the architect. The issue of the museology was developed during the lessons given at the University and dealt with several of his most recognised projects, in order to expose the guidelines of his museology approach. The message he conveyed in his classes did not describe precise details as much as acting strategies. But nevertheless, the approach to the work of Carlo Scarpa reveals a scale of museum detail that has never been experienced before. This care for the solutions of encounters and for the suitability of expositions constitutes a true contribution to the history of architecture and is, therefore, a model of the contemporary museology theory. The interest of the interventions of Scarpa, lies in the abstraction and refinement, both of his exhibition spaces and of the support elements of the works to be exhibited. This allows on occasions to be recreated in nuances that enrich the pieces with a delicacy that we could almost describe as a work of goldsmithing.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10991
2021-02-01T12:56:13Z
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2021-02-01T12:56:13Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020); 123-143
Cañada de Agra, composing with topography and landscape
Peer-reviewed Article
Cordero Ampuero, Ángel; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Gutiérrez Mozo, María Elia; Universidad de Alicante
2020-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10991
Architecture
urbanism
landscape
art
design
en_US
Cañada de Agra is a new village designed in 1962 by José Luis Fernández del Amo for the Spanish INC (National Institute for Colonization). This paper aims to elucidate the cultural context of this urban project, during the Franco Regime’s post-war period of isolation, the hinterland colonization challenge and the state of architectural development at that time. The discipline of “ruralism” can be traced throughout the 20th Century both for Spain and Europe, as a sort of planning policy primarily concerned with landscape, both natural and agricultural. Among the Spanish designers involved in this policy area, Fernández del Amo stands out for his extensive work in INC new settlements. In this examination of his career and in-depth analysis of Cañada de Agra, including schemes, diagrams and accompanying photo essay, the aim is to show the relevance of this project to the rural planning of the past century, in parallel with the work of other figures of the post-war Modern Movement. Moreover, as “ruralism” is now making a comeback to the contemporary scene, a re-reading of these events may be of value in considering our approach.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/10994
2021-02-01T12:44:48Z
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2021-02-01T12:44:48Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020); 1-32
The periphery of the German city: from the garden city to the modern Siedlung
Peer-reviewed Article
Bosch Abarca, Jorge; Universitat Politècnica de València
2020-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/10994
urban form
small dwelling
company town
garden city
modern Siedlung
es_ES
This article examines how the most recognisable urban forms of the Siedlung in the first postwar period in Germany were influenced by previous experiences in the construction of the urban periphery involving the company town and the garden city. The adaptation of these peripheral settlements – in which the desired balance between the country house and the urban dwelling was achieved by introducing terraced housing – to meet certain requirements of sufficient density to satisfy the growing demand for small dwellings was to determine the final configuration of the “modern Siedlung,” the settlement characteristic of the expansion of the large German city in the 1920s. An urban form that was to combat the housing shortage problem by providing systematic, medium-density housing groups consisting mainly of linear buildings several storeys high integrated with the open space in a remarkable balance between building and nature. On the basis of original sources from that period, this text addresses noteworthy aspects of this evolution towards a spatial, functional and aesthetic shaping of the collective accommodation characteristic of a Modernist German urbanism which still deserves to be taken into consideration in the current discussion about urban density.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11354
2020-10-30T13:41:37Z
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2020-10-30T13:41:37Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020); 185-214
Ignacio Álvarez Castelao: Housing developments for power station workers
Peer-reviewed Article
Gonzalvo Salas, Carlos; Universitat Rovira i Virgili
2020-10-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11354
Ignacio Álvarez Castelao
Power stations
Housing developments for workers
Experimental housing
System
en_US
This article analyses four of the thirteen housing developments for workers that were designed in northern Spain for the Electra de Viesgo electricity company by Ignacio Álvarez Castelao between 1948 and 1965, namely those constructed in Puente de San Miguel in Santander, Aguilar de Campoo in Palencia, Soto de Ribera in Oviedo, and Santa María de Garoña in Burgos. We analyse the theoretical foundations Castelao developed in the mid-1950s to construct these four residential complexes, which were based on modulation, prefabrication and the systematisation of constructive elements in order to streamline their construction in the rural environment. Also systematically analysed in this paper are the public spaces, the housing, the furniture, and the transitions Castelao introduced between the various scales, from the geographical urban planning scale to architecture and furniture. In essence, we study the elements of architecture Castelao designed to create orderly housing developments with comfortable habitability conditions for the workers both inside and outside their homes.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11357
2021-02-18T16:23:47Z
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2021-02-18T16:23:47Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020); 65-96
Bunshaft’s showcase: exploration of the display-building. World Fair, 1939
Peer-reviewed Article
Parga, Andrea; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2020-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11357
glass curtains
visual communication
display-building
NY World Fair
Gordon Bunshaft
es_ES
The Venezuelan Pavilion was one of Gordon Bunshaft's first projects for Skidmore & Owings. It was a large showcase, an airy place, a rectangle with glass walls. The exhibition was ordered between the glass perimeter and the plane on which the map of Venezuelan geography was placed. The exhibition accompanied the passage to the restaurant terrace and the tropical garden. With the success of the setup, the author architect and his team recognized the need to keep the influence of this approach in the shops and lobbies of their future buildings. For this reason, it was sought to deepen on how glazed planes improve both the internal space and the surrounding environment. Attempts have been made to reveal what Bunshaft pursues by exploring the attributes of glass sheets in his projects and reflecting on the “visual display” involved in the role of glass curtains “in and from” the pavilion. The study showed that to take heed of what is known “will be visible,” has brought a renewed perspective on the opportunities offered by the use of glass in architecture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11578
2021-02-18T16:04:23Z
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2021-02-18T16:04:23Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019); 1-27
The dream of space produces forms
Peer-reviewed Article
García Pedrosa, Ignacio; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
García de Paredes de Falla, Ángela; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2019-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11578
Architecture
Moretti
interior
space
form
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The dream of space produces forms is a study on space as the place that most surprises and excites us in architecture. Space understood as an invention of three-dimensional shapes that particularly show their ability to provide above justified needs, the possibility of revising the way they are used.By abstracting these spaces from their environment and context, we seek through this study to explore the relationship between the section and the volume of the space, and in doing so, recognize the design mechanisms, whether rational or intuitive, that we have used in establishing the spatial layout. We are aware that this thought on the actual project experience must be part of the architect´s work, and that it ultimately represents the search for the givens and constants that are present in the architecture of any time or place.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11624
2021-02-01T13:08:07Z
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2021-02-01T13:08:07Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020); 31-58
Amerikanische Bekleidung. Semper's technique in the work of Albert Kahn
Peer-reviewed Article
Pancorbo Crespo, Luis; University of Virginia
Martín-Robles, Inés; University of Virginia
2020-10-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11624
Albert Kahn
Industrial Architecture
Gottfried Semper
Karl Bötticher
Chicago Commercial Style
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This paper proposes a reinterpretation of Albert Kahn's work through the architectural theories of Semper in order to answer certain questions that have persisted about his work, such as, what is the reason for the heterogeneity of his industrial and non-industrial work and what is the relationship between his radical technical innovations and contemporary tradition. Both questions can be answered by an analysis of Kahn’s work through design tools inherited from Gottfried Semper: Bekleidung, the coating principle, and Stoffwechsel. We establish a parallel study of Kahn's work and the work of other architects in which it is documented the strong influences of these theories. We focus in our analysis on Kahn's industrial architecture, since it is not conceivable that Semper’s influence, so evident in its office, commercial and public buildings, would not have any permeability in his industrial work. To demonstrate this influence, we examine buildings that bridge the gap between the industrial and non-industrial design such as the complex for the U.S Aviation School in Langley Field, Virginia and the Natural Science Building in Ann Arbor, Michigan, among others.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11710
2020-03-18T09:48:21Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019); 175-183
Review: Jaap Bakema and the Open Society. Dirk van den Heuvel (ed.)
Book Review
Merino del Río, Rebeca; Universidad de Sevilla
2019-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11710
es_ES
Jaap Bakema and the Open Society compila textos de diferentes autores, entrevistas a personajes cercanos a Bakema, reportajes fotográficos, y documentación de archivo procedente mayoritariamente del Rijksarchief voor Nederlandse Architectuur en Stedenbouw que custodia el Het Nieuwe Instituut. Huyendo de una presentación cronológica, se recurre a una estructuración sistemática en torno a tres temas que serán los que articulen las distintas secciones: “A Man with a Mission”, “Building Social Relations” y “Growth and Change”. Tras el prólogo de Guus Beumer, director del Het Nieuwe Instituut, Heuvel presenta en el capítulo introductorio la figura de Bakema como uno de los arquitectos clave en la historia de la arquitectura contemporánea, destacando su compromiso social y la dimensión humana de sus escritos y propuestas arquitectónicas. En esta recensión se relacionan aquellos apartados que se consideran de gran utilidad para futuras investigaciones, deteniéndonos en aquellos capítulos que han suscitado un mayor interés personal debido a su proximidad con la investigación realizada hasta la fecha.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11750
2021-02-18T16:14:11Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020); 145-183
José Antonio Corrales. Villages of Colonization. The construction of shade
Peer-reviewed Article
Martín Domínguez, Nicolás; Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha
2020-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11750
José Antonio Corrales
Villages of Colonization
shade
encounter
community life
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José Antonio Corrales planned four Colonization Villages between January 1954 and June 1956: Guadalimar, Vegas del Caudillo, Villafranco del Guadiana and Llanos del Sotillo. Corrales progressively built the shade in his colonization villages, protecting the outdoor spaces from the sun converting them into a place of relationship and gathering for its inhabitants. Llanos del Sotillo culminates a process, where his aim is masterfully achieved. Shade pursued in the orientation and urban layout, in the section of its streets, public galleries or under community buildings. The shade is also sought in the deepest thresholds of homes, becoming places where the boundaries between outside and inside fade and blur the division between public and private space, into greater wealth and complexity, enhancing community life under its shade. Years later in Elviña, Corrales presented us with community spaces, a sort of “streets in space” through which the dwellings could be accessed, as a partial evolution of his villages adapted to the geographical context, in this case searching for the sun and shelter from the rain. The sun and its shade mark and reveal community life in these works.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11820
2021-02-18T16:29:26Z
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2021-02-18T16:29:26Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020); 1-29
Architectures for play in Central Park: adventures against apathy
Peer-reviewed Article
Tuset Davó, Juan José; Universitat Politècnica de València
2020-10-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11820
Adventure playground
Urban activism
Minimalism
Reinforced concrete
New York
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Children's play architectures propose new uses for urban public space. The intervention of the New York architect Richard Dattner with his "Adventure playground" (1967) in Central Park creates a children's play environment from formal anarchy in which children can imagine their own ways of playing. The proposal of elemental architectures that encourage children to be adventurous was opposed to the apathy inherited from the conservative institutionalized design. Structures linked by a slightly winding concrete wall define living and playing spaces by creating a natural separation of the children's and the adult's environment. The concatenation of iconic forms of children’s plays aims to choreograph the child's personal learning experiences. Dattner's project is the architectural expression of a bold play program. It represents the rebellious attitude of young architects of advanced ideology. It symbolizes the radical change in thinking about the design of the public playground. It considers the need to involve the community in the project phase and is a contribution to the artistic avant-garde movements that vindicated the specific object of minimal expression.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11842
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
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2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021); 31-60
The contributions of Gropius and Wachsmann to the timber house industry
Peer-reviewed Article
Serra Soriano, Bartolomé; Universidad CEU CARDENAL HERRERA
Díaz Segura, Alfonso; Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera
Merí de la Maza, Ricardo; Universitat Politècnica de València
2021-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11842
Packaged Houses
Gropius
Wachsmann
industrialization
timber
es_ES
Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann made a significant contribution to the housing prefabrication industry. After the Second World War, they set principles that have served as a basis for continuous revisions in the interests of optimising the industry. The Packaged Houses are a research that shows a continuous review of the processes and constructive systems of prefabricated houses. This article tries to study (following a chronological criterion and focused on the context of this type of construction) the experience of Gropius and Wachsmann and their contributions as a basis for other investigations that, even today, continue their course.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11843
2021-02-18T16:07:25Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020); 157-184
Living, Creating, Enjoying: Villa Gloria by Harnden and Bombelli in Cadaqués (1959)
Peer-reviewed Article
García-Diego Villarías, Héctor; Universidad de Navarra
Villanueva Fernández, María; Universidad de Navarra
2020-10-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11843
Harnden
Bombelli
Cadaqués
Villa Gloria
Mediterranean
es_ES
Peter G. Harnden and Lanfranco Bombelli, the architects responsible for the U.S. government's post-World War II propaganda campaigns on European soil, settled in Cadaqués in the late 1950s. This peculiar partnership of itinerant stateless people shaped some of the most remarkable examples of Cadaqués’ architecture of the last century. Works that were able to be respectful with the “old” architecture of Cadaqués without renouncing to an uninhibited modernity. The text presented here seeks to delve into the construction that acted as the seed for the rest of his work: the house that both built for themselves upon their arrival in the Spanish small town. A project that would later be the model for several houses that both architects carried out for the growing colony of foreigners that arrived in this magical corner of the peninsular periphery. The analysis is relevant given that none has been carried out in depth before. In addition, it is a unique example of balanced architecture, one of great solidity in its fundamental principles. Finally, the study will remark the vernacular characterization of the presented architecture: a construction halfway between José A. Coderch's discourse of "It’s not geniuses what we need these days" and Kenneth Frampton's “critical regionalism.”
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11846
2021-02-18T15:57:11Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020); 185-191
Spain 92: architecture and city. José Ramón Alonso Pereira (comp). Diseño Editorial
Book Review
Alba Dorado, María Isabel; Universidad de Málaga
2020-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11846
architecture
Spain 92
es_ES
En 1992, gracias a la confluencia de tres eventos de carácter internacional "”la Exposición Universal de Sevilla, la Capitalidad Cultural Europea de Madrid y los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona"” España se convirtió en centro del mundo. Estos acontecimientos provocaron que la arquitectura española se proyectara hacia el exterior y que se valorara fuera de nuestras fronteras. Así son presentados, desde distintas perspectivas críticas, los tres focos de la España 92, acompañándose de varios análisis transversales de diversos aspectos, desde el diseño hasta las grandes transformaciones urbanas, explicando cómo extendieron su influjo a la totalidad del territorio español, con el objetivo de mostrar las presencias y ausencias de su legado arquitectónico.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/11862
2021-02-18T16:11:03Z
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2021-02-18T16:11:03Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020); 59-89
The Tree in Alison and Peter Smithson’s Architecture
Peer-reviewed Article
Fernández Villalobos, Nieves; Universidad de Valladolid
Jiménez Sanz, Andrés; Arquitecto
2020-10-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/11862
Smithson
Tree
St Hilda´s College
Upper Lawn
Yellow House.
es_ES
Alison and Peter Smithson were heirs to an outstanding landscape tradition that refers architecture to nature, giving the tree a leading value in this linkage. Their trees are related to architecture in different ways: always respected, sometimes the tree becomes their geometric or symbolic centre; at times it is adapted and "involved" in family life; eventually, the tree is used as the generating idea of a project to later be forgotten or formally hidden, or on the contrary, to manifest itself openly through its construction; often, the tree becomes lattice and seems to dress the architecture, protect it and capture the landscape in fragments; until arriving, at the end of their work, to configure its formal limit. All of them, even the built ones, are trees in motion, which literally or symbolically narrate the course of time. The article attempts to rescue the importance of the tree and its precise configuration in each work, through the analysis of some projects. The way in which architects describe and draw this element in their texts and plans reveals their intention to rescue the beauty of everyday life and attend to the specific versus the generic; an interest that should be rescued in an increasingly globalized and impersonal world.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/12495
2021-02-01T13:05:38Z
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2021-02-01T13:05:38Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020); 91-123
Renée Gailhoustet’s typological atlas: an architectural "Alphabet"
Peer-reviewed Article
Moreno, María Pura; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
2020-10-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12495
Renée Gailhoustet
Architectural alphabet
Typology
Inhabiting
es_ES
When reading into the underlying thinking of every architectural project, there are references that, together with the motivation behind the making of all decisions, give rise to the contextual framework of the project for its critique. Renée Gailhoustet (1929-...) is an architect whose professional work, carried out between 1961 and 1995, synthesized political and social interests through typological experimentation, mainly in the field of collective housing. In her projects in urban peripheries, she tested architectural mechanisms that raised the questioning of the urban model emerged with the institutionalization of the functionalist postulates of the Athens Charter. In this article we will analyze the transition of her typological discourse in order to understand her text entitled "Alphabet" with which she formed a kind of "doxa" or vade mecum. The selected terms, in alphabetical order, specified her interests, which materialized as constants in her work, and intellectual coordinates which were coincident with those of other architects of her generation. The objective will be to demonstrate how the multi-directionality of these anthropological and architectural meanings modeled a theoretical corpus that, complemented by her philosophy studies and by her political commitment, geared her proposals towards the improvement of social conditions for coexistence and the rapport between the city and its people.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/12534
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021); 173-188
Enactive or symbolic representation? When the order alters the product
Peer-reviewed Article
Wolff, Cecilia; University of Chile
Cárcamo, Mauricio; Polytechnic University of Madrid
2021-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12534
Architecture
symbolic
iconic
enactive representation
en_US
This paper reviews a pedagogic exercise related to the degree of Architecture being taught at the University of Chile. This exercise, which is based on the action of folding paper, integrates knowledge areas from the project learning in initial phases. To illustrate this, in the methodology section, the applied didactic strategy together with its theoretical sustenance are described and then followed by both a review of the activities of the project itself and the learning results. The exercise addresses the multidisciplinary features of our field in Architecture, since it encourages students to directly and intuitively solve physical, structural, geometric, aesthetic and functional issues in an integral manner, appealing and adding to their already acquired ability to do and think in an enactive manner. The outcome of this exercise gets deep into the relationship among a number of aspects which include the type of representation incidence in the projecting operation (iconic, symbolic and enactive representations) and its directions, i.e., from enactive to symbolic representation and vice versa. Furthermore, it also lays out the didactic strategies and teaching contributions of the study case. To conclude, the relevance of this practical approach concerning the relationship between form with these three types of representation is discussed, so students may apply their knowledge and experience acquired during their life in the first stages of their architectural training at university.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/12695
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12695
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021); 119-149
Water, Water Everywhere: Destiny, Politics and Commodification on New York’s Water Edge
Peer-reviewed Article
Morcillo Pallares, Ana; University of Michigan
2021-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12695
Politics
commoditization
post-industrial city
waterfront regeneration
New York City
en_US
In 1973, in the midst of an economic downturn, New York City´s waterfront was envisioned as an enterprise for an urban renewal. This paper reflects on the interplay among a set of actors which was key in launching a more open, accessible, diverse and thrilling city´s edge. The intersecting condition among corporate capitalism, real estate, political interests and talented design illustrates the waterfront as particularly instrumental in the representation of a desire city to live in. However, the case study of two relevant built projects, Battery Park City and Gantry Plaza State Park, showcases different results in the challenge of the city´s waterfront strategy giving over its innovation, privileging instead the rapid commodification of the architecture and the unbalance between public and private interests.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/12701
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12701
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 219-246
Levels of sustainability in the work of Lina Bo Bardi
Peer-reviewed Article
Alba Dorado, María Isabel; Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
2022-04-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12701
Lina Bo Bardi
sustainable architecture
recycling
nature
popular art
es_ES
The purpose of this article is to bring to light the keys with which Lina approached her architectural work as a forerunner to a series of ideas that approximate what we can now associate with the principles of sustainability. In addition, this paper will serve to review the discipline of architecture in the 21st century, incorporating new visions of sustainable intervention that contemplate symbolic and environmental factors that satisfy human needs from the point of view of respect for society, culture and the environment. To this end, we will analyze and interpret her professional career and some of her main works on three levels, ranging from the design of everyday objects to architectural and urban design. This study will lead us to propose a procedure that is rooted in social and environmental concerns, the originality of which lies in a return to origins that advocates artisanal, popular processes based on recycling, the use of minimal resources and the means at hand as well as a heartfelt relationship with nature that is, at the same time, attentive to human needs.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/12709
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12709
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021); 97-118
Art and Urban Regeneration in New York City. Doris C. Freedman’s Public Project
Peer-reviewed Article
Carrascal Pérez, María F.; Universidad de Sevilla
2021-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12709
Public art
public space
urban art
urban regeneration
New York City
en_US
Given its positive economic, social and urban impact, even with low-cost or low-tech materialization, the urban creativity encouraged by the arts is of great interest today. This narrative reviews one of the most prolific careers in this regard addressing the pioneering work by Doris C. Freedman. The late 1960s and the 1970s, in the context of two financial crises, saw a groundbreaking effort to formalize innovative artistic programs that recycled the obsolete city and integrated local communities in the processes. Doris C. Freedman was the first director of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Public Arts Council, and leader of the organization City Walls. These institutions promoted an unprecedented improvement of the public urban life through the cultural action. Such experiences led Freedman to the conception of her last project, the relevant and, still, ongoing Public Art Fund of New York City. This article focuses on her early professional years, when she began and consolidated herself in the task of legitimizing art as an urban instrument for shaping the city. This research provides a contextualized critical analysis on Freedman’s less-known experimental projects before the foundation of the Public Art Fund, enabling an extraordinary source of inspiration for a current creative city-making.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/12713
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 49-74
Spatial construction through the collection: The house of Sir John Soane
Peer-reviewed Article
Santolaria Castellanos, Ana Isabel; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Ramos Alderete, Jaime; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Ramos Alderete, Pablo; Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
2022-04-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12713
Collection
John Soane house
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Romantic eclecticism
house museum
es_ES
This paper examines the relationship between the inhabitant, the house and the objects it contains to reveal the role that the collection plays in the construction of the domestic space. The focus of the study is the house of John Soane in London, an exemplary case where the collection becomes the defining and creative element of the space. The close connection between collection and architecture is particularly apparent in Descriptions, the text in which Soane describes his own house through the objects in each room, suggesting an imagined tour to uncover the virtues of the architectural space. Soane’s house is consequently shown to be a diverse collection of architecture which takes shape in the simultaneous construction of three collections:fragments of architecture, buildings and constructed architectural spaces. In a way, what Soane creates in theinterior of his house is an architectural capriccio, a fantasy that represents an idealized vision of his own “idea of architecture” whose greatest value and attraction lie precisely in the deliberate juxtaposition of the piecesand the dialogue that emerges between them, resulting in a three-dimensional space imbued with intended meanings.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/12744
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12744
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021); 151-182
Street design in the recent urban planning. Murcia, 2001-2016
Peer-reviewed Article
García Martín, Fernando Miguel; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Ros Sempere, Marcos; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Silvente Martínez, María José; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
2021-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/12744
Street design
urban morphology
real estate bubble
public space
density
es_ES
The 'prodigious decade' of Spanish urbanism caused a large expansion of urban lands, but also a much greater amount of planned but undeveloped land. The planning for this 'expectant city' is a challenge for the future of our cities. In this work, the streets proposed in these plans are analysed by evaluating their dimensional characteristics (surface and width) and their habitability (pedestrian-cyclist space and previsions of tree lines). The research is focused on the city of Murcia, paradigmatic case of the expansive urbanism typical of the real estate bubble. We have studied 2,096 streets from 92 partial plans approved during the period 2002-2013. The results show how the analysed variables change according to the use and density of the sectors and can be useful to evaluate the improvement of the habitability of these streets before their execution.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/13028
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13028
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021); 151-171
Architecture and transformation in Mexico City’s UNAM University Campus
Peer-reviewed Article
Leal, Alejandro; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Cruz, Bruno; Universidad Motolinía del Pedregal
Pérez-Duarte, Alejandro; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente
2021-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13028
Mexican architecture
modern housing
Mexico City
processual nature of architecture
habitability
en_US
Architecture in permanent transformation is the starting point of this article, focused on the interaction between material and social aspects of a case study on modern Mexican housing, observing the building’s life in relation to its inhabitants. The Multifamily Apartment Building for Teachers (Multifamiliar para maestros), a faculty housing building at the UNAM campus, is a mid-twentieth-century experimental housing project, developed at the beginning of Mexico City´s densification. Today it is registered in UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites. The case study sheds some important insights into the transformations of a spatial modern utopia facing inhabitants' needs. Numerous differences were detected between the original idea behind the building’s architecture and the reality of its users today, revealing not only the ambiguous nature of the building but also problems derived from the country’s accelerated modernization. The results show contrasting approaches of the intermediate space between the building’s conception, and the constant process of becoming a home, where the scope of its habitability is negotiated.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/13161
2022-10-28T11:22:05Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13161
2022-10-28T11:22:05Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 39-68
The time trap in the epistemology of the contemporary project
Peer-reviewed Article
Barrera Puigdollers, Jose Manuel; Universitat Politècnica de València
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13161
time
sketch
desire
drive
otherness
semiotics
strategy
es_ES
Time interests architecture and art as a form of construction of reality, as it refers to what can be thought more than to the thing itself. This new context brought architects closer to other disciplines in order to be familiar with their foundations: the uncertain classical concept of truth, the rise of the culture of difference and the revision of the concept of time. One consequence of this was the redefinition of individuation through otherness; since my constitution is through my other self, before myself, to which the outside gives rise to the exterior. Since then, architecture will participate as an artificial culture, using design strategies that integrate techniques or systems such as pseudo-prosthetics where artifact, accident, invention and individuation collide. During the course of events the critics detect an anomaly; the transition from individuation to individualism and the priority on desires with an object or drive over needs, altering the structure of satisfaction (needs, demand, desire). In what follows, we will try to identify in contemporary project epistemology the process that leads to this anomaly; through sketches, outlines or configuration maps, in relation to time. It will also be confirmed if such an investment constitutes the time trap.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/13218
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 101-126
The Representation of the Limit in Wim Wenders’ The Wings of Desire
Peer-reviewed Article
Deltell Pastor, Juan; Universitat Politècnica de València
Mejía Vallejo, Clara Elena; Universitat Politècnica de València
2022-04-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13218
Wim Wenders
city
boundary
Berlin
Berlin Wall
es_ES
Berlin has gone down in history for the construction of an internal physical boundary that, far from protecting the population from external agents, protected the city’s inhabitants from themselves. This article analyses how Wim Wenders tells the story of the divided city in his film The Wings of Desire (1987), studying how he looks at the boundary that constructs the forced coexistence of two cities, how he conveys the reality of a city divided by a physical and ideological border, which locations in the city he selects, which actors he chooses as vehicles to narrate the story, and what relationships they maintain with the urban space. He uses the gaze of the angels as a vehicle, for whom a physical boundary does not exist. They have an unprejudiced and intense gaze, capable of getting close to people’s souls, which allows them to see “how each of us lives.” Wenders constructs a narrative of the city that is articulated around two central themes: memory as a collective experience and perception as a vital and individual act. The reflections contained in this article aim to explore the mechanisms that allow us to discover and experience cities.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/13423
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13423
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021); 91-116
Living in a metal shed. Quonset Huts on Naval Station Rota
Peer-reviewed Article
Salazar Lozano, María del Pilar; Universidad de Navarra
Cidoncha Pérez, Antonio José; Universidad de Navarra
2021-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13423
Quonset Hut
metal sheds
prefabricated
Naval Station Rota
1960s
es_ES
During World War II, and even in the years that followed, thousands of American soldiers lived in prefabricated semi-cylindrical metal huts that could be dismantled and reused: Quonset Huts. Their singular design and their multiple uses made Quonset Huts an American military design icon. The daring construction system made it possible to manufacture them in the United States and take them across the Atlantic, armed with a comprehensive instruction manual. The Seabees, American soldiers posted to Spain to build the Naval Station Rota, set up a provisional camp in 1959 comprising fifty-three Quonset Huts. Assembling them in Spain provided housing for 500 soldiers and they were fitted with all types of facilities for their functions. This text aims to shed light on this unknown case of prefabricated dwellings in our country, contextualising the history of their design, construction and installation, and analysing the repercussion of this constructive experiment in the early days of prefabricated construction in Spain.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/13625
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13625
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021); 117-150
Drawing and architectural analysis of San Ildefonso’s Baths in Seville (1542)
Peer-reviewed Article
Núñez-González, María; Universidad de Sevilla
2021-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/13625
Seville
16th century
hamman
Arab baths
thermal baths
en_US
This paper deals with the first hypotheses of elevations and of the architectural analysis of San Ildefonso’s Baths on the basis of unpublished data offered by the Book of written descriptive records (apeos) of 1542 in the Chapter on Seville Cathedral. Our own transformation methodology has been applied to this hitherto largely unknown book in order to attain and encompass graphic representation from the literary description. After giving a brief history of the Baths, the objective is to ascertain its location, by drawing hypothetical floor plans and elevations and analysing its typology, dimensions, spaces, and building elements. This research has shown that it was one of the most important bathing complexes in the historical centre of Seville, at least in the 13th Century, although it later became obsolete and was demolished in the 18th Century.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/14256
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/14256
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021); 183-217
A fishing village in Cartagena (Spain) by Carlos de Miguel (1947-1955)
Peer-reviewed Article
La Spina, Vincenzina; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
2021-10-29
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/14256
Fisherman's House
residential architecture
Instituto Social de la Marina
tile vaults
earthen flat roofs
es_ES
The architect Carlos de Miguel González was the author of the fishing village in Cartagena (Spain). The project promoted by the Instituto Social de la Marina in 1947 consisted of the construction of a housing complex and a Fisherman's House completed in 1955. The work was part of the Plan Nacional de Mejoramiento de la Vivienda en los Poblados de Pescadores which intended to address one of the main concerns of the Spanish state after the Civil War: the problem of poor housing. Thus, numerous actions were carried out along the entire Spanish coast, some published in Revista Nacional de Arquitectura. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to publicize the Cartagena project and the vicissitudes of its construction, as the built work is quite different from the original project. It also aims to highlight its most outstanding features through a comparative analysis with the other projects published in the journal and by studying possible links with the vernacular architecture of the Region of Murcia.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/14640
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
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http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/14640
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021); 61-89
The U.S. Embassy in Madrid and the post-war modern architecture
Peer-reviewed Article
Amarouch García, Ismael; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2021-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/14640
U.S. Embassy
post-war modern architecture
Madrid
Mariano Garrigues
FBO
es_ES
Between 1950 and 1955, the United States Embassy in Madrid was planned and built on the former Huerta de Cánovas estate. This building has already been studied in its pioneering and controversial implementation in the Paseo de la Castellana. Some reference has also been made to the link between Mariano Garrigues, the Spanish architect who directed the construction works, and North America. This article goes deeper, however, into some issues that have not yet been explained; in particular, the aim is to reveal how a prototype of the International Style was adapted to local circumstances. For this purpose, both foreign sources related to the North American architectural office (Foreign Building Operations, FBO) and local sources related to the Spanish architect are used. Likewise, graphic analyses are carried out to complement the available information and to focus on aspects of the site, construction, and spatial organization. The analysis is not limited to the general aspects of the building. Its link with post-war modern architecture is increased with considerations of site, structure and furnishing. The final assessment falls somewhere between absolute adherence to modern ideals and local mediation.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/14696
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021); 33-60
The Influence of Industrialisation on the work of Gerrit Rietveld: from the Module to the Kernhuis
Peer-reviewed Article
Arribas Blanco, Ruth; Universitat Politècnica de València
2021-10-29
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Gerrit Rietveld
industrialisation
modulation
grid
Habraken
es_ES
The appearance of new paradigms in the early 20th century due to the impact of industrialisation unleashed a reformulation of the strategies used for building from the beginning to the creative phase. This paper examines in depth how architect Gerrit Rietveld used industrialisation and the strategy used in his work at the time of the so-called Functionalist Period by analysing his different projects. Without an exhaustive analysis of all his work, the aim was to get to know another facet of the Utrecht architect apart from his best known neoplastic compositional facet, related to his preoccupation with responding to social needs by the efficient organization of space, making use of industrial products and with a special interest in the constructive aspect of his projects. Finally, Rietveld’s figure is associated with that of Habraken and the connections between both Dutch architects are analysed.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/14762
2021-05-03T06:25:31Z
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2021-05-03T06:25:31Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021); 61-95
CSH Program or the American way of life. Californian domestic icons of the 50s
Peer-reviewed Article
Marcos, Carlos L.; Universidad de Alicante
2021-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/14762
CSH Program
modern domestic architecture
American way
transparency
post-war iconography.
es_ES
After World War II a new order emerged amongst the ruins, the devastation and the Allied triumph. The United States, more than any other country, emerged as a new world power with an optimism founded on victory as much as on its untouched territory and on its economy boosted by the military industrial complex. Architecture in the 50s could not avoid being part of the American dream. Would it be possible to find an architectural image to embody such an aspiration? In other words, would it be possible to conceive an architectural iconography tuned with technology, progress, freedom, individualism, and the familiar image for domestic architecture capable of assuming the symbolism and the characteristic optimism of the American way of life? That was the goal pursued by John Entenza, editor of the influential Arts & Architecture journal, and advocate of the Case Study House Program. The glazed box could assume much of the imagery associated with a new way of life for various reasons. Indeed, it served as an iconography for the domestic architecture of the period inspired in industrialisation or in the hybridisation of steel and the balloon-frame constructive system as a pretext diversely reinterpreted in the Case Study Houses later to become icons of a Californian modern domesticity.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/14855
2021-04-30T12:17:04Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021); 1-30
Javier de Winthuysen’s “regenerationist” pedagogy of the garden and the landscape
Peer-reviewed Article
Bercovitz, Rémy; Ecole nationale d'architecture et du paysage de Bordeaux (EnsapBx)
2021-04-30
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/14855
Art of gardens
landscape design
pedagogy
regenerationism
Javier de Winthuysen
es_ES
One of the most important Spanish garden and landscape designers of the early 20th century, Javier de Winthuysen (1874-1956) was also a pioneer in the reflection on education in the field of garden and landscape. Yet the educational dimension of his reflection and his work has been little studied so far. The following lines aim to partially fill this gap. The educational dimension of Winthuysen's work is thought to constitute an extremely pertinent way into an in-depth understanding of the ideas of a landscape designer who never ceased to relate the question of the art of gardens and the role of landscape design to the social debates and the intellectual controversies that agitated his time.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/14921
2021-10-29T12:58:13Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021); 219-252
The DGRD’s barracks for the Civil Guard: A propaganda-adapted model
Peer-reviewed Article
Pinzón-Ayala, Daniel; Universidad de Sevilla
2021-10-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/14921
Early Francoism
military architecture
typology
collective housing
architects
es_ES
The Civil Guard barracks, promoted by the Directorate-General of Devastated Regions [Dirección General de Regiones Devastadas, DGRD] (1939-1957), are an exception within the general marginality of this hybrid architecture in architectural historiography. However, such a prominence has led to a distorted and partial approach to the architecture of these barracks, ignoring the contemporary production of the Civil Guard’s technical services. This is the first study that deals with the post-war promotion of barracks, offering an analysis that sheds light on the interdependencies and contributions made by each organisation. The methodology is based on a bibliographical review, which includes the Reconstrucción journal, the consultation of the projects in the archives that hold the documentation of both organisations and the comparative analysis of their productions. This paper aims to show how the DGRD based the promotion of its barracks on the models created by the architects attached to the Civil Guard, taking them directly and adapting them to its propagandistic interests according to Franco’s ideology using strategic implantation, a commitment to specific typologies, excessive ornamentation and the emphasis on a collective way of life.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15069
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 189-218
Urban Hostels. Camping in an indoor landscape. Barcelona as case study
Peer-reviewed Article
de Miguel Pastor, María; Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Sentieri Omarrementería, Carla; Universitat Politècnica de València
2022-04-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/15069
hostel
tourism
city
bed
shared dormitory
es_ES
Recent decades have seen a significant growth in the number of hostels in major cities, in most cases occupying buildings which were originally destined for other uses. This article aims to explore the flexibility of the typology of the hostel in its adaptation to existing buildings, paying special attention to its defining feature: the shared dormitory. The research takes Barcelona as a case study and analyses the changes which have occurred in the distribution of bedrooms and the composition of the bed – the hostels’ sole private space. The tendency in the design of the individual bed is to create a room in itself, both in terms of its organisation and its use, which means the typology of the hostel can adapt itself easily to period buildings. However, the renovation of existing buildings in order to accommodate them to their new use has increasingly meant greater compartmentalization, which brings us to a point of contradiction. The research allows us to reflect on cultural resistance towards the abandonment of the bedroom and invites comparison with relevant examples of solutions at different moments in history in which the bed acquired the role of the bedroom detaching specificity from its surroundings.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15288
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 161-188
Félix Candela and Fernando Higueras. Eight years and seven projects in common
Peer-reviewed Article
del Blanco García, Federico Luis; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
García Ríos, Ismael; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2022-04-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/15288
Félix Candela
Fernando Higueras
20th century Spanish architecture
architecture catalogues
es_ES
In 1979, architects Félix Candela and Fernando Higueras started a collaboration that lasted until 1987. During this time, they designed a total of seven projects of which only one was finally built. One of the projects is a variation of the iconic inverted umbrella structure designed by Candela. If it had been built, it would have been the greatest span ever designed by the architect using this type of structure. Despite being two of the most important Spanish architects of the twentieth century, publications exploring the projects they carried out together and their collaboration in general have been scarce. This paper presents a compilation of theunpublished plans of the projects resulting from the collaboration between them, and also indicates the sourcesand the location of the rest of the original documents that would be needed for future research.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15357
2021-10-29T10:13:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021); 1-31
Le petit livre: Gilles Clément’s paper garden
Peer-reviewed Article
Ávila Calzada, Carlos; Universidad de Zaragoza
2021-10-29
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Gilles Clément
Garden in motion
neglected land
sketchbooks
landscape design
es_ES
The Garden in Motion is a concept that was developed by Gilles Clément in the early 1980s as the result of the experimentation conducted in his garden-house, La Vallée. Clément’s interest in promoting this garden archetype based on managing neglected land led him to write a number of works in order to explain the conceptual underpinnings of his model, with the ultimate aim of having them published. From the writing of the first manuscripts, dating from 1984, to the first edition of “Le jardin en movement” in 1991, he produced a series of different documents that would form the basis of the text that was finally published. It was a long process in which Clément not only had to fully develop his ideas but also to overcome the difficulties involved in finding a company to publish what he called his ‘petit livre’. The aim of this article is to show the creative process behind Clément’s book and its relationship with the creative process of building his garden, while endeavouring to reply to the question of whether it is possible to establish an equivalence between both processes. This is made possible through the analysis of documents kept by Clément in his personal archive, some of which have never been published.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15486
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 247-274
The towers of the Spanish optical telegraph. Antecedents and variants of the architectural type
Peer-reviewed Article
Santos y Ganges, Luis; Universidad de Valladolid
Lalana-Encinas, Laura; Universidad del País Vasco. Cátedra Unesco “Paisajes Culturales y Patrimonio”
2022-04-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/15486
Optical telegraph
telegraphic tower
embrasure tower
military architecture
Spain
en_US
The Spanish optical telegraph was planned by the Ministry of the Interior in 1844 for civilian governmental use. It was a ‘tower and telescope’ telegraph developed by Colonel José María Mathé, with a design clearly inspired by military sensibilities and considerations. This paper first analyses the contemporary military reference point of the embrasure tower as a military stronghold campaign. It goes on to examine the historical antecedents of watchtowers or signal towers from the 16th century and the freestanding or outpost towers from the 17th century. This is followed by a description of the architectural type of telegraph tower and an analysis of its variants, which gradually differed from the model typology in both form and materiality. Finally, it examines the military telegraph towers of the second and third Carlist wars. Thus, the historical and typological study emphasizes the military inspiration of the optical telegraph towers that has often gone unremarked in order to optimize the heritage characterization of the remaining structures.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15557
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 127-159
Centraal Beheer. An instrument in the process of human awareness
Peer-reviewed Article
Merino del Río, Rebeca; Universidad de Sevilla
2022-04-29
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Centraal Beheer
instrument
urban landscapes
support-space
polyvalency
es_ES
This research focuses on the motivations and the design processes that lead us to conceive the early works of the architect Herman Hertzberger, specifically Centraal Beheer office building, as an instrument. The assumption is that Hertzberger tried to respond to the needs and demands of the society in the sixties by forcing an individual interpretation of space aimed at strengthening the ties among people and between the people and the environment. His work, while following different reasoning and design strategies, is built on the premises developed by Dutch Team 10, which is believed to be his main architectural antecedent. A theory is presented on the design strategies used by Hertzberger to turn Centraal Beheer office building into an instrument able to promote diverse interpretations by individuals as a means of fostering processes of social and spatial identification. The basis for this theory lies in the analysis of several plans and sketches belonging to the different phases of the design process, specific and general bibliography, two interviews with Herman Hertzberger and other sources.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15603
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 27-48
Nordic Memories of the East. Tetsuro Yoshida and the myth of traditional Japanese house in Erik Gunnar Asplund, Aino Aalto and Alvar Aalto
Peer-reviewed Article
Rincón-Borrego, Iván; University of Valladolid
Rodríguez-Llera, Ramón; University of Valladolid
2022-04-29
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Tetsuro Yoshida
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Aino Aalto
Alvar Aalto
Japanese architecture
en_US
Traditional Japanese architecture played an important role in the development of modern European architecture, especially from the beginning of the 20th century. Based on this extensively documented thesis, the influence of Japanese culture and the traditional Japanese house on the figures of Erik Gunnar Asplund, Aino Aalto and Alvar Aalto, especially during the 1930s, is analysed. The study describes how these authors found inspiration in the East, as well as their contacts and sources of reference. Finally, it explains the extent to which they reinterpreted Japanese aesthetics in their designs, especially analysing the case of the Villa Mairea winter garden. In this context, the research points to the decisive role played by the figure of Tetsuro Yoshida and his text Das japanische Wohnhaus (1935) for the interests and designs of these Nordic authors.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15614
2022-10-28T11:22:05Z
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2022-10-28T11:22:05Z
Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 123-150
Structure and Space. The Headquarters of Seville Electricity Company
Peer-reviewed Article
Miró-Miró, Cristobal; Universidad de Sevilla
Mayoral-Campa, Esther; Universidad de Sevilla
Pozo-Bernal, Melina; Universidad de Sevilla
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/15614
offices
metal structure
open space
contemporary heritage
OTAISA
es_ES
In the third quarter of the twentieth century, several notable architectural projects were carried out in Seville, among which the building for the Headquarters of the Seville Electricity Company deserves special mention. Designed by the OTAISA project management office, this work is a milestone for the city in several aspects; both OTAISA’s work methodology, in the style of the large American project management offices, together with the innovative spatial, structural, and constructive proposal of the building, brought contemporaneity to the city of Seville. The project clearly has the influence of the German architect Mies van der Rohe, which raises this building of national contemporary heritage to a prominent place, developing and delving into certain issues that the master postulated regarding office buildings. A project of proven architectural quality, but largely unknown due to its irrelevance within the national panorama, it is approaching half a century of age while maintaining the architectural values and wich is recognised landmark of contemporaneity in the city.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15634
2022-10-28T11:22:05Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 151-178
An Avant-garde house for Dr. López-Trigo (1934). Architect, A. Gómez Davó
Peer-reviewed Article
Gómez Gil, Antonio Miguel; Universitat Politècnica de València
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/15634
rationalist architecture
avant-garde in Spain
Rocafort garden neighbourhood
Antonio Gómez Davó
2nd Republic architecture
es_ES
When modern architecture was built in Spain, it was from an almost exclusively formal perspective, leaving aside the industrial and social considerations that were an important part of its reason for being in the rest of Europe. The article studies one of the peri-urban space buildings that became fashionable in our territory during the 1920s and 1930s. It was these new population centres that led to the appearance of new architectural types, very characteristic of the Spanish pre-civil war period. The house for Dr. López-Trigo, currently demolished, is a good example of these new architectural typologies that were intended to give an idea of progress and modernity. There was the difficulty that, since it was not a new construction, the architect had to adapt to the existing elements. For this reason, he not only transformed the building giving it an avant-garde appearance, but also took advantage of all those materials that were in a position to be reused. The result was a cubist building to which curved elements were added, referring it to machinist architecture and reinforcing its idea of modernity.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15735
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 1-26
The body and death in the drawings of Aldo Rossi and their literary references
Peer-reviewed Article
González de Canales, Francisco; Catedrático de Composición de la Universidad de Sevilla
2022-04-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/15735
Aldo Rossi
body
death
drawing
Georges Bataille
es_ES
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in Aldo Rossi that has posited an alternative approach to his work, initiating incursions into the political, cultural and anthropological subtexts that his work offers. This article aims to contribute to these new readings with a tour of Rossi’s work that focuses on a fundamental theme in the studies of modern anthropology: the culture of the body and death as a central aspect of the most elementary human relationships. Through an investigation of some of Rossi’s less explored intellectual references, especially those of Georges Bataille, as well as other particularities of his work, seen mainly in his drawings, this study seeks to reveal this underlying substrate in the works of the Milanese architect and posits their relevance in understanding the deeper relationships that nourish the human experience.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/15747
2022-10-28T11:22:05Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 99-121
David Haid and the Mannheim Theater of Mies van der Rohe
Peer-reviewed Article
Santatecla Fayos, José; Universitat Politècnica de València
García-Requejo, Zaida; Universidade da Coruña
Lizondo Sevilla, Laura; Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos de la Universidad Politécnico de Valecia
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/15747
Mies van der Rohe
David Haid
project
theatre
collaboration
es_ES
This article investigates the role played by David N. Haid - a graduate student at IIT and assistant in Mies van der Rohe’s office - developed in the National Theater project, which was submitted to the competition announced by the city of Mannheim in 1952 and decided in the spring of 1953. The archival work and the method of comparative analysis reveal two important aspects. Firstly, that Mies van der Rohe’s project for the competition on invitation is contemporary with the final master’s project, entitled An Arts Center, which Haid defended in June 1953, a master thesis supervised by Mies, as stated in his preface. Secondly, the resemblance between Haid’s proposal for a multi-purpose Arts Center and Mies’s Mannheim Theater is very evident, with the two projects being identical in almost every aspect: metrics, proportion, structure, and even the construction of the two models and the staging of their photographs. The temporal and architectural coincidence of the two works reveals the decisive role that David Haid played in this singular project, hitherto only attributed to Mies van der Rohe.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/16435
2022-10-28T11:22:05Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 69-97
Barragán & his generation in Guadalajara: the house, the patio and the garden
Peer-reviewed Article
Rueda Velázquez, Claudia; Universidad de Guadalajara
de Rentería Cano, Isabela; Universidad Ramón Llull
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/16435
Barragán
intermediate spaces
patio-house
garden city
modern architecture
es_ES
This research examines the work of a group of engineering colleagues: Ignacio Díaz Morales, Rafael Urzúa, Pedro Castellanos and Luis Barragán as the leader, who between the 1920s and 1930s, proposed a transformation of the suburban house or chalet –a typology that incorpored the prevailing foreign architecture influences of that time– which they rejected. Inspired by the teachings of the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros and the works of Ferdinand Bac, they rediscovered the universal and everlasting values that united the vernacular Mediterranean architecture with that of their place. We have used a comparative study method to find the commonalities and differences between the works that we analyze. Our research demonstrates how through intermediate spaces the house merges with the exterior space, the garden acquires greater relevance as anextension of the house and finally, how tradition is linked to modernity.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/16542
2022-10-28T11:22:05Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 179-200
Energy and comfort. The historical evolution of the façade in Western Architecture
Peer-reviewed Article
Sánchez-Ramos, Irene; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Raposo Grau, Javier Francisco; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Meseguer-Garrido, Fernando; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Mediavilla-Martín, David; Universidad de Valladolid
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/16542
envelopes
history of construction
development of façades
technical advances in façades
review of façades
en_US
The envelope is considered to be the boundary between the outside and the inside of a building. The aim of this study is to analyze both the process that led the concept of the façade to evolve in Western architecture and the repercussions of such evolution, focusing on energy consumption and comfort. The entire evolution of the façade has been closely related to the evolution of materials and construction technologies. The comfort and energy characteristics of architecture have always been determined by the materials and construction technologies employed in façades. Architecture has improved in technical aspects, especially in terms of lighting and thermal comfort. Nevertheless, thermal comfort is usually linked to energy consumption, which is the parameter that has increased the most in this development, with the only exception being sustainable architecture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/16602
2022-04-29T11:21:57Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022); 75-100
Antonio Bonet. Esplanades and patios
Peer-reviewed Article
Ródenas García, Juan Fernando; Universidad Rovira i Virgili
Domingo Magaña, Jose Ramon; Universitat Rovira i Virgili / Universitat politècnica de Catalunya
2022-04-29
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/16602
Antonio Bonet
patio
doorway
esplanade
modern architecture
es_ES
Patios have been used since ancient times as an architectural principle for resolving the form of houses. Their range of possibilities is also incorporated into the imaginary of modern architecture. Patios are traditionally characterized as enclosures that open upwards towards the sky and where the rooms of a house come together. They are a formidable element of architectural order. In the work of Antonio Bonet Castellana (Barcelona, 1913–1989), the patio incorporates multiple registers. As we shall see, Bonet occasionally shifts the patio to the perimeter of the building to enhance the ritual pathway for accessing the building, conceal and protect the interior from the exterior, and open the house up to the landscape. On a higher scale are ‘esplanades,’ which, according to Bonet, should be understood as small squares or access patios for welcoming visitors. Esplanades which are associated with platforms, porches or walls, on the other hand, are conceived as vantage points for surveying the landscape. The ambiguity and freedom associated with patios and esplanades resolve the publicprivate dichotomy without either element losing its identity. The aim of this article is to uncover new possibilities Bonet explored when incorporating patios and esplanades into a selection of his domestic constructions.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 7-37
The architectural project as an impulse for standard furniture
Peer-reviewed Article
Villanueva Fernández, María; Universidad de Navarra
García-Diego Villarías, Héctor; Universidad de Navarra
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/16663
project
architect
furniture
standard
modernity
es_ES
In the 1920s the architect takes on a special role in the furniture scene. Faced with the need to equip their works with standard furniture, appropriate to the new architecture, he finds in the interior a field for thedevelopment of their work. It is precisely in the performance of their work as architects that the new types of furniture emerge: standard pieces that, paradoxically, are born from integral architectural projects. It is thenwhen the written media of the time presented a debate, both outside and within Spain, about the limits of thearchitectural project and the role of the architect in the design of furniture. In this context, several Spanisharchitects, such as C. Arniches and M. Domínguez, L.M. Feduchi, L. Gutiérrez Soto, and J.M. Aizpurúa andJ.Labayen, contribute their visions from a theoretical point of view, but also through their built work, constitutingthemselves as examples of this phenomenon that gave rise to integral architectural works and standard pieces inthe same project. By analyzing the contents of Spanish architectural magazines of the time and other specializedwritings, this article aims to shed light on the role of the architectural project as an impulse for the developmentof modern standard furniture.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17086
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 1-23
The light-frame construction as a design resource in the work of Frank O. Gehry (1978-1997)
Peer-reviewed Article
Collantes, Ezequiel; Universidad del País Vasco
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17086
framework
project
houses
Fish
Guggenheim
es_ES
This article analyses the role of light-frame construction as a design resource in Frank Gehry’s work between 1978 and 1997. It carries out a historical-critical analysis of his work over this period, identifying three different stages. The first stage (1978-1987) includes residential projects in which Gehry experimented with a variety of simple combinations of forms based on lightweight framing. The second stage (1983-1992) includes the Fish projects, characterised by a search for complex forms through adaptations of this construction technique. The third and final stage (1991-9997) includes the Guggenheim Museum, a project which he based on the complex assemblage of contorted light-frame units. The use of lightweight framing as a design resource in Gehry’s work includes two main dimensions: on the one hand, the creation of one-room-house blocks involved annexation and stacking. On the other, the constant subversion of the conventions of light-frame construction generated spatial, formal and perceptive complexity. Both avenues of exploration provided a means for Gehry to evolve his architecture in the period addressed in this paper. This research demostrates that lightweight framing is at the core of many of Gehry’s projects.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17094
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 131-152
“A sum of possibles.” Eileen Gray and the overcoming of Modernist design
Peer-reviewed Article
Ruiz Colmenar, Alberto; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
González Jiménez, Beatriz S.; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17094
Eileen Gray
modernity
radical design
antidesign
Bruno Munari
es_ES
The history of 20th-century design has traditionally viewed Modernism as a monolithic phenomenon without variations. The visceral reaction to this movement in the 1960s was born partly in opposition to this unified version of modernity. However, analysing specific examples makes it possible, on the one hand, to glimpse cracks in this homogenised viewpoint and, on the other, to follow connecting threads between designs resulting from modernity and some proposals which although part of the Modern Movement deviated from the canon. This is the case of Irish designer Eileen Gray. Her works and texts include propositions which anticipated not only the shortcomings of modern design, but more fundamentally, their solutions. She viewed design not as an imposition but as a “sum of possibles” which considers needs, comfort and something as indispensable and intangible as the happiness of the user. Thus, Gray was linked to proposals apparently as removed from her surroundings as those of Italian Radical Design. This article aims to show some of these relationships, emphasising the figure of Eileen Gray as a pioneer in the world of 20th-century design.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 51-78
Temporary distancing. Garden of the Angels by John Hejduk in Riga
Peer-reviewed Article
Barberá Pastor, Carlos; Universidad de Alicante
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17164
Riga
Building of Time
John Hejduk
Michel Foucault
Marcel Proust
es_ES
In the main square of the Riga project by John Hejduk are located The Building of Time, The Cultural Center and The Garden of the Angels. The Time Building maintains links with the adjoining buildings according to the use and program of each of them. Based on the written description for the project, this work hypothesizes that John Hejduk expresses a bitter sensation when alluding to the aroma left by angels when they perch on the branches of trees. Through this manuscript I try to find out if the actions that take place between the surrounding buildings influence such desolation. The research explores the neighboring buildings to find the meaning that is in-between them. This essay aims to discover where to find that feeling of irritation that the Riga project somehow expresses through the lines, colors and tones of the drawings as well as the links with Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin. As a conclusion, the affliction created is caused by the lack of architecture so necessary for life in the city when the architect sets aside his own condition.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 153-179
Geometric patterns in the carpentry of palaces in Valencia: a study of tessellations
Peer-reviewed Article
Soler Estrela, Alba; Universitat Jaume I
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17260
graphic analysis
geometric design
mudejar carpentry
renaissance patterns
es_ES
Valencian architecture experienced a moment of splendour from the 14th to the 16th century at a time of economic development which coincided with the expansion of the Crown of Aragon throughout the Mediterranean. Members of the aristocracy built stately homes and palaces which stood out for their rich architecture and decorative finishes. Among these it is worth noting the geometric patterns of the carpentry of doors and windows, which were a feature of this type of building at the time in this area. While in some cases these can be assumed to be the original elements, their characteristics suggest that some may have been renovated or replaced, some in the 20th century. This contribution to their study applies a methodology for the analysis of the decorative designs, which aims to complement historical studies within a multidisciplinary approach. A representative number of cases is analysed according to shapes generated based on the regular and semi-regular tessellations, revealing a varied repertoire. This makes it possible to establish a classification and description of different types, graphically defined withexamples illustrating specific applications adapted to the shapes of doors and windows.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17352
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 231-261
The architecture Bauhausbücher. Reflexive artisanility and reconstruction of links
Peer-reviewed Article
Álvarez Benítez, Paula V.; Universidad de Sevilla
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17352
editorial techniques
order of discourse
cultural economy
experimental books
gender studies
es_ES
In this article, we discuss the meanings implicit in the editorial form of Internationale Architektur (1925), Ein Versuchshaus des Bauhauses in Weimar (1925), Holländische Architektur (1929), and Bauhausbauten Dessau (1930), the four architecture editions of the iconic Bauhausbücher series (1925-1930). Our objective is to bring to light the comprehension of how the Bauhaus approached its editorial work and clarify its possible critical dimension and the scope of its contribution to architecture editorial culture. Methodologically, we contrast and connect the outcomes of various investigations that consider these books within the transition from industrial to cultural economics. In addition, we expand the historiographical context in which the Bauhausbücher series tend to be placed (the experimental searches of the 1920s avant-garde) to consider a broader one: the evolution of editorial techniques in architecture books. This approach will allow us to identify the attunement with the editorial methods of the pre-modern architecture book and its reservation towards the nineteenth-century industrial-publishing formulas still in force in architecture. The analysis would help us to delve into the most hidden implications of this reservation and the problems involved in the editorial codification of architecture subject to the competitive demands of the cultural economy.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17389
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 79-108
The churches of Julián Laguna in Madrid (1958). Four projects and one hypothesis
Peer-reviewed Article
García Herrero, Jesús; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17389
religious architecture
programmed settlements
Julián Laguna
religious facilities
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In 1958, the Madrid Urban Planning Commission, run by Julián Laguna, commissioned the architects Romany, Cubillo, Sáenz de Oíza, Sierra, Fisac, Pinto and García de Paredes to design six preliminary projects for parish complexes in various absorption and programmed settlements. Of these, only the project from Cubillo for Canillas programmed settlement was built. This research recovers, as far as it is currently possible, the existing documentation on the preliminary projects of this Church construction plan by Laguna. Had it been built, it would have been the Madrid replica of the Plan developed in Vitoria by Bishop Peralta, one of the most outstanding initiatives of Spanish sacred architecture of the mid-20th century. The study of the different proposals reveals points in common in the preliminary projects of the architects linked to Hogar del Empleado building company, compared to the more personal options of Fisac or García de Paredes, continuation or germ, respectively, of highlight projects from both. The recovered projects provide very diverse approaches, both in their conception of the sacred space and its liturgical functionalism, as well as in their implementation strategies in neighborhoods that were still being built.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 25-49
Topology of the intermediate space. The work of landscape architect Jussi Jännes in Tapiola
Peer-reviewed Article
Fernández-Vivancos González, Enrique; Universitat Politècnica de València
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17429
intermediate space
public space
topology
Jussi Jännes
Tapiola
green and blue infrastructure
es_ES
Between 1955 and 1967, Jussi Jännes had the opportunity to design and build most of the public space of Tapiola, a new Finnish town that was conceived as a laboratory in which experimental solutions susceptible to being extrapolated to other urban interventions could be studied. This experimental condition allowed him to elaborate a delicate sequence of intermediate spaces that could articulate the different scales and spheres of the city, from the territorial to the domestic, thus favoring environmental connectivity and social inclusiveness as qualitative values of the urbanscape. The present article addresses an analysis of this experience with the aim of contributing to the identification and assessment of the role played by mediation spaces, in this case arising from the overlapping and intertwining of multiple realities, in the life of the public space of our cities. The critical review of the proposed case is relevant at a time like the present, in which the practices of urban planning and design are being reoriented on the basis of the previous definition of interconnected networks of spaces of high social, environmental and cultural value that are now known as green and blue infrastructures.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17627
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 181-205
Dignifying Building Heritage: Essential Interventions in the Wall of Lugo
Peer-reviewed Article
Bailliet, Elisa; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17627
Conservation
restoration
monument
defensive heritage
archaeology
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Throughout the last two centuries, Spain has faced the challenge of safeguarding more than 15,000 monumental buildings of varying magnitude and historical-artistic relevance. For this reason, research on the protection of cultural heritage and its materialization through consolidation, conservation, and restoration allows outlining the mechanisms developed for such an undertaking. This challenge can only be approachedfrom a general analysis, with a focus on the successive intervention projects of some of the most and bestpreserved monuments. On this occasion, two axes of interventions will be analyzed that represent the keys tothe conservation of the Wall of Lugo, the release of rampart and the exhumation of interior stairs, and how bothactions have decisively influenced the formal restitution and the structural stabilization of the walled complex,revealing itself as the most effective way to dignify it.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17753
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 333-357
The role of planning in building typology characterisation
Peer-reviewed Article
Viedma-Guiard, Andrés; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Rodríguez-Suárez, Iván; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Hernández-Aja, Agustín; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Álvarez del Valle, Lucas; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Martínez Solano, Ainara; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17753
urban planning
typological characterisation
residential building
urban rehabilitation
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The usual practice in the determination of the morpho-typology of buildings, necessary for the development of urban rehabilitation and regeneration operations, is usually carried out through the exclusive analysis of the building itself, ignoring the applicable urban planning regulations and the relationship of the building with the plot (not always well defined) that contains it. Based on the methodology of ERESEE 2020, a method for characterising the building stock is tested, proposing a new definition of typological clusters based on the use of cadastral data and planning analysis. To this end, the layout of the buildings in relation to the boundaries of the plot, in relation to the public domain, is analysed, which is fundamental for actions that require increases in volume and occupation of additional space by the buildings, an operation that would not be viable in volumes that coincide with the boundaries of the plot. The application of this methodology to the nine most populated Spanish municipalities allows the typological characterisation of their residential stock, thanks to the analysis of the built reality, but also through the study of the planning and, therefore, establishing their real possibilities of transformation.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17760
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 275-300
Rethinking the future of rural territories. Five perspectives of approach
Peer-reviewed Article
Cortellaro, Stefano; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Franquesa Sanchez, Jordi; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Moreno Sanz, Joan; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Pesoa, Melisa; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Sabaté Bel, Joaquin; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17760
rural environment
rural settlements
depopulation
urban analysis
territorial analysis
es_ES
In recent years, the debate on rural territories has gained visibility in the media, in the political arena, and at different levels of administration. From the Urban Planning Research Group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, we have been contributing to this debate with research that addresses issues related to the morphological analysis of settlements and territories in rural contexts. Throughout these investigations, we have focused on the analysis of problems linked to the imbalance in the distribution of population and activities in the territory and in rural depopulation, with the aim of evaluating the relevance and potential of so many areas, as well as the possibilities of reversing situations and processes of a certain complexity. This article shows some of the perspectives from which we have been reflecting on these territories. These works have in common their trans-scalar approach, the use of new technologies for analysis, the link between research applied to teaching, the implementation of research by design, and the collaboration between university departments and different administrations.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17762
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 301-332
The urban impact of COVID-19: six neighbourhoods, three cities and three countries in social network data
Peer-reviewed Article
Serrano-Estrada, Leticia; Universidad de Alicante
Martí Ciriquián, Pablo; Universidad de Alicante
Bernabeu-Bautista, Álvaro; Universidad de Alicante
Ruiz-Santacruz, Javier Sebastián; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17762
neighbourhood
urban centrality
social networks
urban transformations
COVID-19
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The COVID-19 health emergency has impacted multiple dimensions of the complex physical, social, functional and economic structure of cities. This research encompasses a comparative diagnosis of some of the changes and transformations that have occurred in the urban environment due to the crisis and are reflected in geolocalised social network data. For this purpose, data from Google Places and Twitter are adopted as the main source of information. A mixed qualitative and quantitative methodology is proposed to analyse the increase and loss of economic activity (Google Places) and human presence (Twitter) in two periods: pre- and post-pandemic.As a case study, two areas with very different socio-economic conditions are analysed in three cities located in countries that adopted different pandemic restrictions measures - Valencia in Spain, Mexico City in Mexico and Gothenburg in Sweden. The diagnosis reported by these social networks is of great use in formulating useful strategies both for identifying the changes that have been taking place and for dealing with future disruptive scenarios.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17764
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 217-248
The Instituto Universitario de Urbanística (1991-2021): building a research culture
Peer-reviewed Article
Castrillo Romón, María A.; Universidad de Valladolid
Jiménez Jiménez, Marina; Universidad de Valladolid
de las Rivas Sanz, Juan Luis; Universidad de Valladolid
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17764
Instituto Universitario de Urbanística
territorial and urban planning
research in Urban and Territorial Planning
urban planning culture
es_ES
The Instituto Universitario de Urbanística (IUU) (University Institute of Urban Planning) of the Universidad de Valladolid was founded in 1991 and it is the only one of its kind in the Spanish territory. Throughout those three decades of existence, the research group “Planificación territorial y urbanística” (IUU_Lab) (Territorial and Urban Planning) has developed, as the driving force of the institute, a very diversified activity that this article seeks to analyse and show synthetically, inserted in the urban development in Spain since the 1980s. The study of the scientific production that has marked the group’s trajectory as well as the disciplinary influences it has received, allows the authors to characterise four main fields of knowledge construction and disciplinary reflection: reformist urban planning, urban-territorial planning, urban regeneration, and rural environment. The whole analysis developed reveals, on the one hand, some links established between certain problems of Spanish urbanism and research in Urban and Territorial Planning; and, on the other hand, the validity of an epistemological vision of Urban Planning understood as a knowledge of interdisciplinary nature and practical orientation, nurtured by a historical conscience.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17777
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 249-273
On Urban planning Theories, Urban Regeneration and Open Spaces. Explorations by PUPC
Peer-reviewed Article
Monclús, Javier; Universidad de Zaragoza
Bambó, Raimundo; Universidad de Zaragoza
Díez Medina, Carmen; Universidad de Zaragoza
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17777
urban planning theories
urban regeneration
open spaces
urban morphology
urban and peri-urban landscapes
es_ES
The group PUPC (Paisajes Urbanos y Proyecto Contemporáneo - Urban Landscapes and ContemporaryProject) focuses its research on some relationships between urban landscapes and several processes that are part of them. The aim is to explore their connections to urban strategies, plans and projects. The specific approach ofthe line of research “Urban Landscapes, Urban Project, Heritage” is based on the need to stimulate debate aboutthe city and its urban forms by using cross-cutting perspectives. The group’s initiatives are rooted in the belief that there is a natural continuity between research and teaching, with the work of the urban planning workshop being an essential part of its activity. The transfer of results to the public and authorities also constitutes an essential aim of the group’s work. The research conducted has consolidated into three large blocks with other complementary approaches. The first block includes reflections that are related to urban planning and architectural theories and to the history of both disciplines. The second block consists of studies dealing with questions about urban regeneration, particularly those that discuss hosing-related historical, analytical and project explorations. The third block encompasses research into open spaces, both in urban and peri-urban contexts.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/17871
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 203-216
Reclaiming Urbanism (despite everything…)
Peer-reviewed Article
Font Arellano, Antonio; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2022-10-28
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/17871
urbanism
physical planning
explosion of the city
new territoriality
post-pandemic
disciplinary renewal
trans-scalar design
urban and territorial project
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This article aims to reflect on the social significance of Urbanism and claims for its necessary renewal; it is written based on the author’s investiture speech as Honorary Doctorate from the UPV (Polytechnic University of Valencia) last spring. After trying to define its disciplinary nature and point out its origins and own ways of approaching its object of study and intervention, Urbanism’s material incidence in our cities and territories is confirmed through urbanhistory, as its indisputable cultural, political, economic and social importance. Changes in productive processes and technological advances that have occurred since the economic crisis of the mid-1970s and during the globalisation process are the main reasons for the emergence of a new city model, of new territorial dynamics and new social behaviours, with relevant consequences in the use and configuration of urban and territorial space - aggravated by the recent pandemic. These trends characterize the current situation, question some of the traditional principles of the discipline and frame the present crisis of Urbanism. This brings up the current need to rethink our discipline from the diversity of situations, the growing complexity of the processes and the uncertainty of the future, within the framework of a well-understood transdisciplinary, but without abandoning or undervaluing the relevant physical dimension of Urbanism.Finally, some of the main current issues for its renewal are pointed out, as an instrument of government andrational and democratic administration of the city and the territory, for the positive progress of our society.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/18108
2023-04-28T12:58:40Z
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 207-229
The chronological footprint of the ‘Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo’: Spatial geometry and time
Peer-reviewed Article
Martínez Ramos e Iruela, Roser; Universidad de Granada
Fernández Martín, Lídia; University of Granada
Garcia Nofuentes, Juan Francisco; University of Granada
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/18108
chronotope
invariable
construction system
architecture
Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo
heritage
Granada
es_ES
The ‘Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo’ of Granada, declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1919, holds one of the most important conserved buildings from the period of transition between Almohad and Nasrid art. Located in the Realejo quarter, in the area previously known as the Alfareros or old potter´s quarter, this royal complex has been subject to important and controversial interventions throughout its history. The present study aims to investigate its materiality by analysing the historical development of the archaeological information perceived in its space and form. The main construction achievements are marked on a timeline, and the features of the construction systems used are analysed to establish the spatial and temporal condition of the architecture and the place. Special value is given to the invariable features of its geometry and material condition as essential elements to define the architectural footprint of this unique heritage.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 7-29
The Wall Unit System designed by Konrad Wachsmann. Mobility of Elements
Peer-reviewed Article
Peña Fernández-Serrano, Martino; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
2023-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/18252
Wachsmann
Mobilar Structure
mobility
Radical Architecture
es_ES
Between 1944 and 1945, Konrad Wachsmann developed the Mobilar Structure system, which was subsequently contracted out to the Atlas Aircraft Corporation, a company that developed aeroplanes after the Second World War. Wachsmann's project deals with large hangars which in turn must be supported by the minimum number of vertical elements to maximise the movement of the aeroplanes. These first developments by Wachsmann, in the 1950s, inaugurated the three-dimensional structural frameworks of large spans that ended up in the typology known as Megastructure, which was very popular in the utopian groups of the 1960s. In this first project there are two elements, perhaps secondary, but of great design efficiency: the structural node and the mobile vertical enclosure called Wall Unit. The first one exemplifies the search for the universal knot in bar grids. The second investigates the flexibility, assembly and disassembly, foldability and mobility of the artefact. The ideas used will would be taken up by utopian groups such as Archigram and GEAM or architects such as Cedric Price during the 1960s. Sometimes it is in the secondary that we find the germ of the reception of architectural theories and concepts.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 1-2
Editorial
Editorial
Serra Lluch, Juan; Universitat Politècnica de València
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/18585
es_ES
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/18611
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022); 3-5
Editorial Findings in Urbanism
Editorial
Pérez Igualada, Javier; Universitat Politècnica de València
2022-10-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/18611
es_ES
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/18861
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 121-149
Experiences of the INCLUDEC-UDEC program, construction of inclusive policies and practices
Peer-reviewed Article
Colmenero Fonseca, Fabiola; Universitat Politècnica de València
Mella Vidal, Ivonne; University of Concepción
2023-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/18861
inclusion
disability
higher education
accessibility
Heritage
en_US
In Chile, since the ratification in 2008 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN 2006), laws and regulations have been developed in this area, being essential in them to guarantee accessibility. The purpose of putting these guarantees into practice for a group of university students with disabilities at the University of Concepción, in Chile is that in 2014 the INCLUDEC (Interdisciplinary Program for Inclusion) was created, whose objective has been to promote an intersectoral view on the inclusion of people with disabilities. This article describes the contributions of the INCLUDEC Program, mainly in the area of accessibility, of an educational institution that has a campus (Campus Concepción) declared a National Monument and how the interdisciplinary look of the program has allowed the development in the institution of inclusive practices, which are a national and international reference in the approach to this issue. The conclusion of this review shows that to continue advancing on the issue of accessibility, the INCLUDES volunteer program must move towards a necessary institutionalization as a directorate or unit, which maintains the condition of intersectoral operation and with a transversal view of the accessibility issue.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 101-120
Designing a cross for the top of the Tower of Jesus Christ in the expiatory temple of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia (Holy Family)
Peer-reviewed Article
Molines Cano, José Miguel; Jaume I University
Almerich-Chulia, Ana; Universitat Politècnica de València
2023-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/18883
Sagrada Familia
Gaudí
Tower of Jesus Christ
cross
modernist aesthetic
es_ES
Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) is his architectural masterpiece. The construction of 18 spires for this project were envisaged: four for each three entrance portals; and a system of six towers where the dome base of the centre tower is dedicated to Jesus Christ, a sec and the rest to the Apostles. This study is focused on the dome base of the so called Tower of Jesus since this particular element is still under construction and, when completed, its top part must support a four armed cross (25 meters) to reach a final height of 170 meters at its highest point. The sizes and weights of this ornamental element complicate the hoisting and arrangement of any (prefabricated) construction set because neither the initial building machines (made of steel) nor the machine models available in today’s market can perform such a complex task. As a result, the aim of this article consists of designing a very singular and symbolic element that meets both its aesthetic function and this complex building performance.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023); 109-130
Color and artistic expression through architectural ceramics in the last stage of Oscar Niemeyer’s work
Peer-reviewed Article
de la Torre Fornés, Irene; Universitat Politècnica de València
Valero Ramos, Elisa; Universidad de Granada
Cabodevilla Artieda, Ignacio; Universitat Politècnica de València
2023-04-28
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/18973
Oscar Niemeyer
architectural ceramics
colour
Modern Movement
tile
es_ES
The extensive professional career of Oscar Niemeyer shows, in its last stage, a compositional reiteration that developed the pattern set by emblematic works as the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, the project that initiated the architect’s journey through formal sinuosity. The intent with which Niemeyer used ceramic coatings at the beginning of his career range from the visual dematerialization of the enclosures, reinforcing the compositional reading to the vindication of Brazilian tradition and culture in the context of the Modern Movement, offering a certain singularity to the building. These intentions were reexamined in his latestworks, in which Niemeyer’s constant desire to integrate different cultural manifestations into the project throughcollaboration with various designers, in order to reinforce the symbolic role of the union of the arts, was orientedto the deployment of his own creativity, understood as an author’s signature.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 47-59
The oscillation between “becoming-tool” and “becoming-prosthesis” in architectural designs
Peer-reviewed Article
Asar, Hande; Ondokuz Mayıs University
2023-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19162
Architectural representation
prosthesis
design tool
architectural design
post-digital
en_US
This study explores the architectural design tools that have evolved through digital media in the postdigital era, which is evaluated through analog and digital hybridize. It raises the question of how the tool, as a mediator between the designer-subject and the designed-object in the architectural design process, can be re-examined in a hybrid design environment. The study proposes that what connects the designer-subject and the designed-object can be understood not only as a tool but also as a prosthesis. In this context, the “tool” in architectural design is described by the oscillation between the concepts of “becoming-tool” and “becomingprosthesis” and their impact on the designer-subject through bodily, cognitive, and consciousness extensions. The relations among the concepts are discussed by folding them on each other using the hermeneutic methodology.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 257-274
Architectural Graphic Expression Bibliography 2017-2022
Peer-reviewed Article
Bernal López-Sanvicente, Amparo; University of Burgos
2023-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19416
architectural graphic expression
research
knowledge transfer
bibliography
scientific dissemination
es_ES
The objective of this bibliographic review of Architectural Graphic Expression (EGA) in the six-year period 2017-2022 is to offer an informative account of its referential theoretical framework, current lines of research and the knowledge transfer from this area of the Spanish university to society. The scientific production by EGA professors in Spain is disseminated through articles in scientific journals and other means of sharing knowledge such as books, congresses, exhibitions and other dissemination activities. Of these references, the books for this bibliographic review have been selected. The monographs and collective publications are the last phase in the communication of the results of a research project. They have a broad and summarised content but accessing it to that knowledge is complex since because many books do not have open digital editions and, therefore, are not indexed by title or keywords like other scientific publications. This text offers the keys to create an updated library where the thematic diversity of EGA is represented, which, since its constitution in 1984, includes history and theory of Shape Analysis, Descriptive Geometry, Architectural Drawing, and the application of its graphic procedures to multidisciplinary heritage research.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 83-99
Enclosed by images. Insights, relationships, and information
Peer-reviewed Article
Alonso-García, Eusebio; University of Valladolid
Rincón-Borrego, Iván; University of Valladolid
Pérez-Barreiro, Sara; University of Valladolid
2023-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19417
architectural active gazes
real and virtual
multimedia systems
inclusive insight
informational space
en_US
Although we have always lived among images and information, cinema first and the development of new information and communication technologies second are producing changes in the perception of space and time that affect both architecture and the arts in general. Throughout the 20th century, modifications of our perceptual apparatus have been reflected in artistic practices in general, and architectural practices in particular, where multimedia supports and moving images are the substance and material of architecture. These supports are the substance with which some of the most recent architectural forms and volumes have been constructed or projected, and they are also the creators of new urban landscapes. By analyzing some formal codifications in the visual strategy of a limited number of film proposals, it is possible to identify key relationships between art, video art, and prominent examples of advanced architecture since the mid-20th century, whose corollary extends to more recent decades. This research allows us to outline an initial genealogy of artistic practices and experiences that span the last century, where the idea of experiencing architecture among images has become a central theme.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 153-175
Documenting, studying and disseminating heritage: Opportunities, criteria, and challenges
Peer-reviewed Article
Chías Navarro, Pilar; University of Alcalá
2023-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19657
Built Heritage
Surveying
Open Science
HBIM
es_ES
The recent evolution of the methods and techniques available for documenting heritage and landscape is evolving exponentially. The manual methods used in direct surveys, which are still useful in certain cases and circumstances, coexist with and complement the most modern photogrammetric techniques, scans, and 3D models. Therefore, it is time for a critical review of both the criteria for applying the different methods and the possibilities for disseminating the data and information obtained, ranging from the implementation of HBIM to virtual reality, which increasingly involves different senses and stimulates the imagination. It is precisely due to the easy access to so many means and techniques, and because of the European Union’s obligation to make information public (Open Data) and for citizens to participate in it (Open Science), that it is time to reflect on and critically analyze the opportunities and possibilities offered by each methodology, highlighting both its weaknesses and how to solve them.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 177-202
Graphic Reconstitution and urban shape: Rediscovering Old Towns
Peer-reviewed Article
Carazo, Eduardo; Universidad de Valladolid
Moral, Álvaro; University of Valladolid
2023-10-31
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url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19664
graphic reconstitution
old town
heritage
es_ES
The Old Towns of our cities are the origin of contemporary cities. The study of their evolution has been related to the comparative graphic analysis of the various moments or stages of their shaping in time and space. This research, which in some cases proposes the idea of graphic reconstitution of the urban shape, is being independently developed in various research centers across Europe in an attempt to recover, from the graphic, the idea of lost heritage, as a contribution to the citizens’ right to know the legacy of their ancestors and value it. Far from an isolated fact, the revaluation of urban heritage or even historical urban landscape, was highlighted by the European Union at the 2005 Framework Convention in Faro (Portugal), pointing out the importance of the contribution of the cultural heritage to society and human development. This work aims to justify the reasons why these objects of research are truly relevant to contemporary society.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 225-255
Architectural drawing. Language of thought and construction. Past, present and future
Peer-reviewed Article
Raposo Grau, Javier Fco.; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Paredes Maldonado, Miguel; University of Edinburgh
2023-10-31
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19679
analog drawing
digital drawing
architectural education
architectural design
digital transformation
es_ES
Drawing has been an inseparable part of the creative discourse within architectural projects, both in its formative and professional aspects. This article aims to provide a reflection on the discipline of drawing from both its formative and professional perspectives, while assessing a landscape of graphic language transformation that remains in constant evolution, particularly since the late twentieth century, driven by the latest digital transformations and implementations. At present, we find ourselves amidst significant changes related to the adoption of resources stemming from this digital transformation, which are progressing towards deeper transformations through the latest developments in artificial intelligence. The architect’s work is a fusion of art and technique, fostering a dialogue between artistic creation and technical construction. Modern tools enable a more organized and precise production of architecture, bridging it with contemporary times and the evolving demands of society. Contemporary approaches, along with technological and methodological implementations within the field of architecture, immerse us in both analog and digital processes from creative and constructive perspectives. From this viewpoint, we can assert that our drawings are intelligent models that do not constrain the capabilities of the architect.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 31-46
The original set designs for Bodas de sangre and Yerma: written and built spaces
Peer-reviewed Article
Jara-Calabuig, Aaron; Universitat Politècnica de València
2023-10-31
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19705
Set design
Bodas de sangre
Yerma
Federico García Lorca
theatre
en_US
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was one of the most influential writers of Spanish literature of the 20th century. His particular point of view, influenced by rural and urban experiences, inspired set designs with high aesthetic and compositional value. This research analyzes the original stagings of Bodas de sangre in the Teatro Beatriz (Madrid, 1933) and Yerma in the Teatro Español (Madrid, 1934). Compiling documentary material and preparing plans and technical models offer a complete view of each proposal, considering the design criteria and construction processes of those designs for which information is available today. Studying the set designers responsible for each project is also relevant. Manuel Fontanals, Santiago Ontañón, and Siegfried Burmann were leading figures in Spanish and foreign theatrical plastic art during the Second Spanish Republic and the following years. In summary, the study shows how the designs for each scenic space were created, analyzing both their compositional and technical details and the transformation process from the written space to the built one. After all, set design is a discipline belonging to ephemeral architecture, which aims to generate atmospheres and structures with a short useful life but with aesthetic, functional, and stability requirements.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 275-298
A contemporary approach to the graphic representation of the urban experience
Peer-reviewed Article
Vicente Gilabert, Cristina; Universidad de Sevilla
López Sánchez, Marina; King Juan Carlos University
Linares Gómez del Pulgar, Mercedes; Universidad de Sevilla
2023-10-31
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19770
Architectural Graphic Expression
urban cartography
Geographic Information Systems
smart city
Big Data
es_ES
In the complex field of urban phenomenon analysis and representation, this text addresses the evolution of works specifically dedicated to investigating the relationships established between individuals and the city. It focuses its attention on one of the less studied aspects: the cartographic representation of subjective, emotional, and perceptual aspects related to the experience of navigating and inhabiting an urban space. The city cannot be considered as a neutral or objective space; on the contrary, there will always be an imaginary construct that shapes and accompanies it. This imaginary construct, which determines our way of perceiving, being, and moving within the city, is fundamental for a comprehensive understanding of urban processes and dynamics. Approaching this dialectical relationship between the physical and subjective dimensions of the city, which is intangible in itself, through analysis and graphic representation is now possible thanks to theoretical and, above all, technological advancements. The objective of this text is to contextualize this process by presenting two frames of reference: one conceptual, linked to the evolution of the term “landscape,” and another methodological, focused on presenting the technical advancements that have been decisive in the evolution of this type of representation. We take a journey through cartographic experiences initiated in the 1960s and arrive at some of the most innovative research lines in this field, such as Biomapping, real-time cartographies, or intelligent cartographies. The aim of the article is to reinforce and emphasize the utility of graphic expression as a tool for urban and territorial decision-making, highlighting its capacity to represent even the most sensitive and complex data. Through a panoramic view of the advancements achieved in recent decades regarding these types of cartographies, it illustrates the interesting convergence that can be delineated today between the traditionally connected areas of graphic expression in Architecture and Urbanism and the new scenarios of data management and analysis.
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 61-82
The urban planning of the Muslim Valencia through the Llibre del Repartiment
Peer-reviewed Article
López González, Concepción; Universitat Politècnica de València
Máñez Pitarch, María Jesús; Jaume I University
2023-10-31
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19785
Balansiya
Medieval toponymy
Medieval town planning
Muslim Valencia
Atzucach in Valencia
es_ES
There is little evidence of the Muslim city of Balansiya in the mid-13th century. However, the Llibre del Repartiment is a valuable document to establish the urban topography of the Arab Valencia at the time of the Christian conquest. Names of streets, neighborhoods, atzucachs, singular buildings, properties of distinguished individuals...etc. are found throughout the text. Their systematic search by cataloging each of the references to obtain an approximate map of the part of the medina located southeast of the Boatella gate has been the objective of this research. The neighborhoods of Abencalbo, Alhadromi, Axigara and Algalga have been located; and the atzucach Avinaçalel, Alfaz, and Cavaçavery. Two baths, five ovens, four alfondechs and four mosques have also been detected. All this has been represented on a current plan of the city.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/19787
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 203-224
Research applied to the field of architectural graphic expression through digital means. Reference framework and roadmap
Peer-reviewed Article
Redondo, Ernest; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2023-10-31
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/19787
ICT-AEC (Information and Communication Technologies-Architectural, Engineering and Construction industry)
Society 5.0
Industry 4.0
Research applied to Architectural Representation
es_ES
The range of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) that can be integrated into architectural design, and on which our applied research can focus, has expanded greatly in just 15 years, with new technologies. For all this, we face new challenges such as the integration of BIM, Big Data, Virtual Reality (VR), Collaborative Design, even Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this context we demand the exploration of border territories between architectural and ICT disciplines to broaden horizons. This proposal for analyzing the state of the art of ICT-AEC research, is based on our experience at the ETSAB-UPC, which after incorporating them naturally, has evolved from the original graphic expression with its various classic disciplines, towards a more transversal model of Digital-Urban Sketching, BIM+GIS, Parametric Design, Virtual Modeling and Visual Simulation in real time. The new horizon is to approach the simulation of the functioning of the city and buildings, thanks to multidisciplinary work in collaboration with other areas such as Architectural Technology, Civil Engineering, Geomatics, Urban Planning, Architectural Projects, in virtual environments. and interactive BIMxD+BigData+Digital Twin.
oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/20619
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 1-2
Editorial VLC#10.2
Editorial
Serra Lluch, Juan; Universitat Politècnica de València
2023-10-31
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/20619
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oai:polipapers.upv.es:article/20620
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023); 3-5
Editorial Findings in Architectural Graphic Expression
Editorial
Sender Contell, Marina; Universitat Politècnica de València
2023-10-31
This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
url:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/20620
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