TORRE EIFFEL

TORRE EIFFEL

    by : Carla Pérez González 

AUTOR :

Engineer of formation, Eiffel founded and developed his company specialized in metallic carpentry, which major achievement was the Eiffel Tower. He dedicated last thirty years of his life to the experimental investigation. It was born in Dijon (France) in 1832. It finished his studies in the Central School of the Arts and the Manufactures in 1855, the same year of the first great Universal Exhibition celebrated in Paris.

         HEIGHT:       His total height is 324 meters, including the antenna that has in the top; without her, it would reach only 300 meters.                                                                                                                                              

MATERIALS:

Wrought iron, pudelado, raised under the form of 18.038 interlaced pieces fixed by 2.500.000 clinches.


INTERESTING FACTS :His construction lasted little more than 24 months and possessed the work of 50 engineers and more than 250 workers.

Edificios Jorge

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

Hood of the Cadets (Candela Tamarit and Estrella Castaño 3ºA)

The Cadets ' chapel is located in the United States Air Force Academy.

It is a religious building in the form of a tetrahedron. It was designed by architect Walter Netsch in 1962 and is located in Colorado Springs, USA.

In my opinion, this building is curious and very huge.

The Pentagon

 

Name: The Pentagon

Architect: George Bergstrom

Shape: Pentagon

Location: Arlington, Virginia

Materials: Concrete and stone

Date of construction: They laid the first stone on 9/11/1941; the construction lasted only 16 months.

Interesting facts:

·        Headquarters of the US Department of Defense, with capacity for 25,000 people, is the largest office building in the world.

o    It has five facades of 280 meters.

o    Five floors high (plus two underground) connected by         another 10 in the form of radio that connect them.

·        Although there are 28.16 km of corridors, it only takes a maximum of seven minutes to walk between any two points of the building.

·        In his sixth anniversary (11/9/2001) a terrorist attack happened.   American Airlines Flight 77 was kidnapped and the terrorists crush in The Pentagon.

Pyramid of the Louvre museum of Paris (Estrella Castaño and Candela Tamarit 3ºA)

The pyramid of the Louvre museum was built by Ieoh Ming Pei. He is a Chinese American architect. He born the 26 april 1917 and he is alive with 101 years. He built buildings all over the world.

  The pyramid of the Louvre museum was built between 1983 and 1989. It has modern and futuristic style. It is located in Paris.

   It is of transparent laminated glass panels. It shape is related to a pyramid.

   In my opinion, this building looks elegant and modern. Also, it is very tall.

For more information:

https://www.louvre.fr/en

Carlos V 's Palace

INTRODUCTION:

Carlos V’s palace is a building located in “La Alhambra” in Granada. Carlos I ordered Pedro Machuca to build it. Carlos I, after his wedding with Elizabeth of Portugal, started living in “La Alhambra”. He was astonished because of its beauty, so he build the palace, which was his real palace in Granada. Nowadays the palace belongs to the Alhambras’ Museum, and it works as a museum, like the other buildings.

PEDRO MACHUCA:

Pedro Machuca (Toledo, ca. 1490 - 1550) was an spanish painter and architect. Although he was born in Spain, he went to Italy for develop her career as artist. There is an hypothesis that said he was a learner from Miguel Ángel, in some texts is mentioned a Pedro Spagnuolo, which might be him. In Italy he also knew Rafael Sanzio, he reflected Sanzio’s style in some of his paintings.

He was one of the 1^st artist to bring the most modern style from Italy to Spain, actually the palace was the most “italian” building from Spain.

MATERIALS,  STYLE  AND SHAPE:

The palace is made of stone, as I did not find where the stone is from, I suppose that is  from a near open pit of the Alhambra. It also has some decoration made of metal in the façade or of wood.

It style is mannerism. It is a style inside the Renaissance, at its final days during the Cinquecento. This styles loses all canones of beauty; proportions, harmony, serenity and balance. In mannerist architecture, buildings lose clarity of composition and lose solemnity with respect to full classicism. 

The shape is a prism with a base of 63mx63m. In the middle of it, the courtyard is shaped as a cylinder. The shape of building it reflects its mannerism style, that was brought from Italy by Machuca.

OPINION:

In my opinion the palace is very original and it has a funny shape, especially taking in account the year in which it was built. But even though its freshness, I don't like it so much. The decoration of the façade is not very elaborated, and it doesn’t contrast very much with its location. I think façades from the Quattrocento are much more beautiful because, the are simple geometric patterns, but they play with colours and fits good with the buildings. Also the palace of Carlos V doesn’t match and it is not well balanced with the others buildings from the Alhambra, which are extremely more beautiful and elaborated.  

Bruno Valderrey Alonso 3rd A    

Houses Cube The Kubuswoning (Candela Tamarit and Estrella Castaño 3ºA)

The most known cube houses like Kubuswoning are houses that form a set called Blaak forest, creating a kind of forest.

There are 32 houses, each of which represents a tree from the hexagon-shaped trunk to the cube-shaped cup.

They were designed by the architect Piet Blom in 1984. They are located in Rotterdam.

In my opinion, this building is very original and very funny. It is also huge.

looking for CUBES

https://www.pinterest.es/mariatprofedear/arts/

FOLDER : arts

FOLDER 2. CUBES

WORKSHEET MODEL CUBES

Taipei 101

Creator:C.Y Lee :Chu-Yuan Lee (Chinese: 李祖原; pinyin: Lǐ Zǔyuán; Wade–Giles: Li Tsu-yuan) is a Chinese architect based in Taiwan. Born in December 30, 1938 in Guangdong, Republic of China, he received his bachelor's degree from National Cheng Kung University (Tainan) and his master's degree from Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, United States). He directed the design of Taipei 101, the world's tallest skyscraper at the time of completion, in 2004.^[1

Period:Tehy start building it in 1999 and finised in 2004

           It was the tallest skykraper from 2004-2010

 Architecture; It has postmodern architecture

Location: The taipei 101 is located in taipei(taiwan)

         The exactplace is (25°02′01″N 121°33′54″E)

                  The Taipei101 is located in taipei(taiwan)

             Materials: The Taipei 101 Tower, the tallest building in the world. The massive supporting                      pillars are made of boxes of 80 mm thick-steel plate, filled with concrete for stiffness.                          However only steel is used above the 62ndfloor.

             Form: The form of the tower is related with rectangles and cubes

CASA DA MÚSICA

By: Marina Sutil

Casa da Música is located in Oporto and was inaugurated on April 15, 2005. The architect who has created is Rem Koolhaas.

On September 1, 1998, the Minister of Culture announced the construction of Casa da Música, during the year 2001, as the European Capital of Culture.

Its location was set on March 8, 1999, in a municipal section of Boavista, where construction began. The construction occurred in the next four years as scheduled, and cost 100 million euros.

In September 2008, Casa da Música hosted the Oporto National Orchestra, which participated in public exploratory presentations, where the music performed was captured along with the expressive gestures of musicians and directors. Scientific articles on special presentationsare also published in Casa da Música 2007 and 2008.

The building is an asymmetrical polyhedron with nine floors of height. The building is covered with white cement slabs, cut by large, wavy or flat glass windows.The main entrance is in front of Avenida da Boavista, its exterior surrounded by a yellow marble floor.

Minsk National Library

By Irene García Remis and Eva Martínez Hernández

The National Library of Belarus in Minsk was design by Víctor Kramarenko and Vinogradov Michael. It was developed in 2002 taking into account the bases of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, which in 1998 decreed the construction of the building in the city of Minsk and it was finished in 2006 using postmodern architecture, neofuturism and deconstructivism stiles. The main entrance is addressed to Moscow, on Nezavisimosti Avenue 116, in Minsk, capital of Belarus and it´s function is a national library. 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. The building that is an allegory of humanistic knowledge, the use of geometry and the return to the vitruvian principles of the interior architecture, has as its main architectural component a volume shaped "rhombicuboctahedron", an octahedral rhombic cube, which rises on a base formed by three circumferences staggered in height that house the reading rooms and public spaces. With a total constructed area of ​​113,669 square meters, 54,960 correspond to the deposit. The building reaches a height of 73.67 meters, distributed in 22 floors. We think that this building will help people to become more interested in reading. We find it super nice and original and very well thought out since there is no mistake inside or outside. We like that it has 19 different reading rooms, terraces, a hyper deposit of books and more than 1500 work tables for the total comfort of the consumers. There are also parkings and a viewpoint! It could be better?!

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OPERA HOUSE

AUTOR: Jorn Utzon fue un arquitecto danés, conocido principalmente por haber realizado el proyecto de la Ópera de Sídney, y por ser el ganador del Premio Pritzker en 2003.Nació como hijo de un ingeniero naval. Realizó sus estudios en la Academia Real de Bellas Artes de Dinamarca. Pasó los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial estudiando con Erik Gunnar Asplund. Después realizó viajes extensos por Europa, los Estados Unidos y México. A su regreso se estableció como arquitecto en Copenhague. Falleció en 2008 debido a un paro cardíaco.

PERIOD: The building was built between 1959 and 1973.

STYLE: The style of this building is expressionist. Expressionism was a cultural movement that emerged in Germany in the early twentieth century, which was reflected in a large number of fields: plastic arts, literature, music, film, theater, dance, photography, etc.

LOCATION: It is located in Sydney, Australia.

FUNCIÓN: It serves as an artistic complex.

MATERIALS: The structure of the building is reinforced concrete. The facades of polarized glass with steel frame.

The theater covers are covered with 1.056 million bright white tiles and creams, in matte finish manufactured in Sweden, however in the distance the tiles look only white. The interior of the building is composed of pink granite extracted from Tarana, wood and plywood from New South Wales.

The Big Basket Building

It was done by Pablo and Alvaro from 3ºB.

Vincent van der Valk studied for a year at Circle in the Square in the drama school in New York and continiue his education in Maastricht where he graduated in 2010 at the Maastricht Theater Academy .

The work is from the modern period.

It belongs to novelty architecture style.

The Big Basket Building is located in Newark, Ohio.

It is a residential buildibng.

It is made of wood, steel, concrete and glass.

It is prism shaped.

SPACESHIP EARTH

 SPACESHIP EARTH

• AUTHOR:

This structure was  manufactured by Walt Disney Imagineering and The architectural design was conceived by Wallace Floyd Design Group.

Is the research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation, design, and construction of Disney theme parks and attractions worldwide. Founded by Walt Disney to oversee the production of Disneyland, it was originally known as Walt Disney.

• PERIOD AND STYLE:

It was opened in October 1, 1982 and and his style is futuristic.

Spaceship Earth is a geodesic sphere that serves as the symbolic structure of Epcot, at the Walt Disney World Resort, in Bay Lake, Florida.

• MATERIALS:

Extending upwards from the table are "quadropod" structures, which support smaller beams which form the shell of the steel skeleton. Pipes stand the aluminum skin panels away from the skeleton and provide space for utilities.

• SHAPED RELATED TO:

This structure represent a sphere.

• OPINION:

In our opinion we chose this structure because it is amazing, huge, original and modern.

We hope to visit  someday!

                                          

                                         

                                          By: ANA GONZÁLEZ

LUCÍA MANZANO

3B

UNITED STATES AIR FORCES ACADEMIE CADET CHAPEL

UNITED STATES AIR FORCES ACADEMIE CADET CHAPEL
By:Eva Fernández Suárez y Aurora Cereijo Díaz.
Authors: Walter Netsch.
Date: It was finished in 1962.
Style: Triangle-shape.

AUTHOR:

Walter A. Netsch was born in February 23, 1920 and died in June
15, 2008, was an American architect based in Chicago. He was
most closely associated with the brutalist style of architecture as well
as with the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. His signature
aesthetic is known as Field Theory and is based on rotating squares
into complex shapes. He may be best known as the lead designer
for the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs,
Colorado and its famous Cadet Chapel. The Cadet Area at the
Academy was named a National Historic Landmark in 2004. He was
a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Cost: 3.5 million to built.
Location: United States, north of Colorado Springs.
Uses: it is open to use by all religious communities to worship in a
manner respectful of other faiths.
Constructions:
Start at 1959 and finished at 1962.
The dimensions are: the nave measures are 64 by 168 feet (51 m),
reaching up to 94 feet (29 m) at the highest peak.
Height: 46 metres.
Floors: 4 floors and 65 suites.
Lift/Elevator: Only have one.

HISTORY AND INTERESTING THINGS

This monument have different worship areas like:
The Protestant Chapel is located on the main floor, and is designed
to seat 1,200 individuals. The building's tetrahedrons form the walls
and the pinnacled ceiling of the Protestant Chapel.
The Catholic Chapel is located below the Protestant Chapel, and
seats approximately 500 people. The focal point of the Catholic
Chapel is the reredos, an abstract glass mosaic mural designed
by Lumen Martin Winter and composed of varying shades of blue,
turquoise, rose and gray tessera to form a portrayal of the
firmament.
The Jewish Chapel is also on the lower level.  It is enclosed by a
vertical grill with inserts of clear glass opening to the foyer. The
circular form and transparent walls were used to suggest a tent-like
structure. The floor is paved with Jerusalem brownstone, donated by
the Israeli Defense Forces.
The Buddhist Chapel is a freestanding hall within the Cadet Chapel,
donated in 2007. It measures 300 square feet and welcomes
Buddhists of all denominations.
And out of the chapels, we have the Falcon Circle is the newest of
the Cadet Chapel's worship areas, dedicated in 2011.

PERSONAL OPINION:

We think that this sculpture is an affectionate sample to all the
religions, which is fantastic.
It has a symmetrical and triangular structure, it is a very beautiful
building.