Fernando Higueras: Expansive Geometries through Models
- Autores: Noelia Cervero Sánchez
- Localización: Architectural Graphics / coord. por Manuel Alejandro Ródenas López, José Calvo López, Macarena Salcedo Galera, Vol. 3, 2022 (Graphics for Education and Thought), ISBN 9783031046407, págs. 260-270
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The architect Fernando Higueras (1930–2008) displayed great expressive abilities through his scale models during the first decade of his professional career. They allowed him to develop some principles of formal generation that stemmed from geometry, which would become invariants in a continuous evolution. The analysis of these scale models brings these geometric principles closer; they start from order and structural clarity while bringing an expansive character to spaces and forms. The geometric rigor of the first models, with modular sequences of folded planes or linear elements, gave way to multiple symmetries and surfaces of revolution with radial structures, which culminated in the proposal for Ten residences for artists in Monte de El Pardo (1959). It began the conjunction of these three-dimensional geometric models that, using folding, aspired to an unlimited growth of the form, with an organicism, or adherence to the natural environment and historical roots, and a biomorphism, or formal relationship with biological organisms. This spatial intention gave rise to a continuous discourse that culminated in the Multipurpose Building in the city of Montecarlo (1969), whose living and organic presence found the best way of expression of its expansive geometry in the scale model.
