Polyhedra Buildings. By Cecilia Camblor, Paula Del Brío and Andrea Bao

ARTS WORK - BUILDING POLYHEDRA - SHAPED

THE ATOMIUM:  
  This building it’s in Brussels.
  The Atomium was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1958 ( so it was made during the 20th century) It was planned to stay six months in the city. However, it quickly became a tourist attraction, so it has a touristic function.
   It consists of nine steel spheres of 18 meters in diameter each and it’s made of aluminium and steel. So it has a spreheric shape and the tubes that connect the different spheres are cylinders.
Three of the four upper spheres lack of vertical support and therefore are not open to the public for safety reasons, on the other hand, the top sphere is open to the public.
  It’s located on the outskirts of the city, in the Heizel neighborhood. It was designed by André Waterkeyn.
  André Waterkeyn was a belgian engineer. He was born in Wimbledon and he is mainly known for the designing of the Atomium.
Waterkeyn was director of a metallurgical company when in 1954 he was invited to design a structure for the 1958 World Expo that would symbolize Belgium's efforts in engineering. The design he made was this monument (the atomium).
  The architects who carried out the project were:
Jean Polak and André Polak.
  These architects are at the origin of a large number of buildings, mainly in Brussels and Belgium, including the emblematic Atomium built in 1958 in collaboration with the engineer André Waterkeyn. They participated actively in the transformation of Brussels after the Second World War working for the real estate development.
   This building is very modern. It is tall, impressive, big. It is also bright and beautiful. It is a good symbol for the city and I think many people are going to visit it.
 And everyone says it's awesome.

  
THE TOWER OF GOLD :
       This building it’s found Seville (Spain), close to the Guadalquivir river.                                                 
The Tower of Gold began to be built on the 30th of march of 1220 and finished to be built on the 24th of february of 1221. It was built to defend this city (Seville) and it was the strongest and most important point of defense because this building defend the port. It was built by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abù l-Ulà and it closed the way to the Arenal through a stretch of wall. Being part of the walls of Seville that defended the city and the Real Alcázar.
  It consists of three parts, this three parts are cylinders and each one is smaller than the other. The first and second part are dodecagonal-shaped and the third one is cylinder-shaped
with a golden dome on top (semi-sphere-shaped).
There are different persons that constructed this tower: the first part, was constructed by Abù l-Ulà, the Almohad governor, from 1220 and 1221 (this part was the one used to defend Seville). The second part, was constructed by Pedro I the cruel in the XIV century, and the third part, was constructed by the military engineer Sebastian Van der Borcht in 1760.
The Tower of Gold was declared a historical-artistic monument in 1931 and has been restored several times.
Is named because of the luster produced by the mortar of lime and pressed straw that presented. Despite this, there are several theories about the name of the building, most false.

2nd. TERM CALENDAR

pay attention!

Latest days for delivering works about UNIT 4 ( 4.1- 4.2- 4.3)  according different groups: 25-26-27 on February.


We´ll star unit 5 the last week of February mixing contents Unit 2´s ( Tangency).

End of assesment: 13 and 14 on March in order to mark 3rd. Term´s tasks.

 

I´ll start UNIT 5 &2        25th  February...................3ºD    and 3º A

                                                                     26th February....................3º C  and  3º B

 

Day for giving 4 UNIT´s exercises (in the begining of the class)

 

                                                                      27th February...................3ºB  - 3º D

                                                                      28th February...................3ºA  - 3ºC

 

END OF ASSESMENT- FINAL DATE FOR DELIVERING ALL THE EXERCISES OF TERM

                                                                     13th MARCH...................3ºB  - 3º D

                                                                      14th MARCH...................3ºA  - 3ºC

                                                                     

14th MARCH...................3ºA  - 3ºC

María Carriles 3ºA

United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel

The Chapel of the United States Air Force Academy is a religious building completed in 1962 in the Cadet Area, north of Colorado Springs, in the area known as El Paso County, Colorado, United States.It has 46m of height, 85m length and a wide of 26m. It was designed by Walter Netsch, of Skidmore Owings and Merrill. It was named National Historic Landmark of the USA. UU in 2004.

The building is composed of 17 glass and aluminum needles, each one composed of 100 tetrahedra, which envelop the entire roof.

The tetrahedrons that make up the needles are covered by triangular aluminum panels, while the tetrahedra that are generated between them are covered with a mosaic of colored glass with aluminum frame.

The building has 3 churches, one protestant, another catholic and a third jewish.

I find this building very interesting because of the shape it has, and the function it performs, I was also surprised when I saw it because of its very strange shape.

BMW TOWER

                                              

The main tower was built between 1968 and 1972. The building rises 101 m high. The shape of the exterior is supposed to mimic the tire of a racing car, with the garage representing the cylinder cover. Both constructions were designed by the Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer.

The tower consists of four vertical cylinders standing side by side. In particular, these cylinders are not on the ground; they are suspended from a central support tower. The tower has a diameter of 52.3 meters. The building has 22 occupied floors, of which two are basements and 18 serve as office space. It was declared a historic building in 1999. It was built of concrete.

This building seems fun to me at the same time as elegant, because the shape it has makes it a bit strange, but it is totally linked to what this company is dedicated to manufacturing. I think he's very curious

FROG QUEEN

It is located in Graz, Austria. It was built by the company Splitterwerk in 2009.

The shape of the building approximates a cube, measuring 18,125 x 18,125 x 17m, wrapped in the four elevations with a pixelated pattern of square panels. From a distance, these panels appear to be painted in a range of ten gray-tone values, dematerializing together the volume of the building against the trees of the surrounding site and the clouds and sky. Therefore, the cubic building is both monumental in its objectuality in the open landscape and, however, completely non-iconographic in its general form.

 Each facade panel is in itself almost square, measures 67 x 71.5 cm, and is made of powder coated aluminum, with serigraphy with the different images.

It is dedicated to engineering, in which we find laboratories and spaces for technical experimentation.

This building is, without a doubt,  the one that I like most of all, because it creates optical effects, both outside and inside, and it seems to me, impressive as well as amusing that someone has thought to build this building.

Jorge Carriles 3º A Buildings

Palace of Peace and Reconciliation

Architect

Norman Foster

Location

Astana, Kazakhstan

Materials

Due to the speed with which the work had to be completed and also to the extreme temperature conditions that can be reached in Kazakhstan during the winter the pyramid was materialized by a steel structure instead of concrete as in the basement area.

At first it was thought that all the enclosures were made of glass, which would be entrusted to the artist Brian Clarke, who had already collaborated with Foster on numerous occasions.

Finally the contribution of Clarke was limited to the enclosures of the upper part of the pyramid and the rest of the triangular spaces that the structure left to be covered were covered with concrete panels on which a gray granite cladding was placed.

Year of construction

2003-2006

Shape

It has a pyramidal shape

Cost

$ 58,000,000 USD

Opinion

I think that this structure is very beautiful because I like the idea with which it was built and based on the hierarchical power of religions

Water Cube

Architect

PTWOve Arup & PartnersCSCEC

Location

Beijing, China

Materials

The structure of concrete and steel (6,700 tons) while the coating is created by translucent ETFE (ethylene-tetra-fluoro-ethylene) membranes.

Year of construction

2003-2007

Shape

It's a cube

Cost

$ 143,500,000 USD

Opinion

I do not like this structure because it's just a cube with a pool inside

National Library of Belarus

Architect

Mihail VinogrdovVictor Kramarenko

Structural engineer

Shohina L.M

Electrical engineer

GVA Lighting Inc

Location

Minsk, Belarus

Materials

Its structural shell shaped diamond base is covered with glass panels that shine for 24 hours a day as the gem it represents. The architects Víctor Kramarenko and Vinogradov Michael wanted to preserve and transmit this vision also at night

•            Led technology

A large monitor measuring 25 × 25 meters on the side and 62 meters in diameter. 4,646 colored LEDs were placed around the building

Designed in

1989

Year of construction

2002-2006

Shape

It has an octahedral rhombic cube shape

Opinion

I like this structure because there are a lot of lights and it’s very beautiful at night

Agbar Tower

Architect

Jean NouvelB720 Architects

Technical architect

Josep Gilabert

Engineer

Gepro BOMA, Master of Engineering

Structural engineer

R. Brufau & A. Obiol

Location

Barcelona, ​​Catalunya, Spain

Designed in

1999

Year of construction

2001-2005

Shape

It has cylindrical shape

Materials

The Agbar Tower is formed by two dense concrete bodies, one central and the other perimeter. Both joined by radial beams that hold the different slabs that shape each of the levels of the tower. The perimeter concrete module is covered by a first skin created by aluminum modules lacquered and tinted in earth tones, blue, green and gray that decompose as height is gained, giving the tower its characteristic tone during the day. The perimeter module together with the aluminum panels are in turn covered by a second skin, a brie-soleil composed of 59,619 transparent and translucent safety glass slats. These 120x30cm mobile slats can be electronically oriented according to the atmospheric conditions of light, wind, etc. The building is crowned by a glass and steel dome.

Opinion

I do not like it because it seems too simple compared to the previous structures

Polyhedra Buildings by Rocío and Sarah 3ºA

POLYHEDRA BUILDINGS

by:Sarah Sabagh and Rocío Nozal  3º B

1- HOTEL RYUGYONG

*Author of the building: Khaled Bichara was born in El Cairo,Egypt, the 27 of july in 1971.He is married with Marianne Bichara and he has two children and currently serves as President of Dada.it and Co Executive Director of Accelero Capital.In december of 2003 he was named as young ejecutive of the year, he has experience in telecomunication and information technology coupled with strong management and entrepreneurial expertise. He has extensive experience of operational management for early stage and developed assets.

*Name: Hotel Ryunyong,but is also known as Building 105, due to the number of floors it has.

*Function:It has several functions including accommodation, apartment, shopping center or rotating restaurant.

*Where is it: is in Pionyang that is in north korea.

*Materials:It is made with concrete, glass panels and enameled glass panels.

*Period: It was built between 1987 and 2013,

but in 1992 the construction was stopped due to the lack of funds for electricity and the shortage of food in the country, after the collapse of the Soviet bloc but 16 years later in 2008 construction was resumed.

*Polyhedra shape:it is based in a pyramid

-HEIGHT: 330m.

-NUMBER OF FLOORS:105.

*Interesting facts: -Ryugyong was planned to attract tourists during the 1988 Olympic Games.

- Each wing measures 100m long and 18m wide.

Inclined to 75 °, the wings converge to form a pinnacle.

-The elevators run on the outer edge of the building.

*Personal opinion:we think  that it is huge ,modern ,original , beautiful, symmetrical and we love the idea to have a revolving restaurant on the roof.

2-Palace of Peace and Reconciliation

*Author of the building:Norman Robert Foster,was born in Manchester the 1st of june in 1935.Is a British architect. He has been awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1999 and the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 2009.

Norman Foster is the President of the Norman Foster Foundation. The Norman Foster Foundation encourages interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and planners anticipate the future. The Norman Foster Foundation, which opened on June 1, 2017, is based in Madrid and carries out projects on a global level.

*Name:The Palace of Peace and Reconciliation but it is also called the Pyramid of Peace and the Agreement.

*Function:The pyramid was built to host the World Congress of Religious and Traditional Leaders and in the lower levels has an auditorium.

*Where is it: it is located in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.

*Materials: The lower one, with three levels of triangles, is plated in granite. The upper part of two triangular levels, is glazed. The design of the stained glass windows is by Brian Clarke.The structure of the pyramid is made of steel although reinforced concrete was used in the lower levels of the construction. The engineers had to design the building to withstand its expansion and contraction due to temperature variations of more than 80 ° C, from -40 to more than 40 ° C, which expand the construction to 30 cm.

*Period:was created on March 29, 2004,construction began on September 1 and the construction

was completed on December 17, 2006.

*Polyhedra shape: it is based in a pyramid, it has 77m high and The pyramid-shaped construction is 62 m high and is about 15 m high.

*Interesting facts: -It cost 8.74 million tenge (that are 38.922.754 euros).

-It has a garden area that covers the lower levels.

-some colored lights are lit at night outside the pyramid.

*Personal opinion:we love the colors of the rainbow so we like a lot the lights that are lit at night on the pyramid. We think it is very colorful, original, a little bland for the day without the lights, but modern and fun, and also It was built in no time for how big it is.