Sunday, 22 June 2014

Week 1: Article MashUp

Grappling with issues of generic importance to do with monumentality in the moment of movement required a solution based on polarities and contrasts. This is echoed within the clusters that still manage to reflect a feeling of movement in their still forms to promise a richer dialogue between the mechanistic entrails and ensuing detail due to this structure. These clusters orbit in perspective like the linking bridge, to create something infinitely more poetic, in the reconciliation of the building’s contrasts. Moreover, through advanced engineering, structures could move and transform themselves-, demonstrating their capacity to penetrate and transform types, to overcome the problems posed by programme and to ignite a strong burst in creating that impression of movement and dynamism. In this way, the programme was broken down into a series of elusive urban fragments, that appear to be almost detached from one another, but admirably fulfils the sculptural and contextual promise in the outer world of appearances. Thus, these parts working together and forming the whole are satisfactorily embedded in the buildings dominant formal themes, so as not to disrupt its structure, but to overcome the ambiguities of collage in its anatomy or composition.


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How Santiago Calatrava Blurred Lines Between Architecture and Engineering to Make Buildings Move

1984 December: 'Virtuosity Around a Void'

 Soft Shells and Strange Star Clusters

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