Edificios que hacen ciudad. La arquitectura de gordon bunshaft para la gran manzana 1947-1967
- Autores: Andrea Parga Vázquez
- Directores de la Tesis: Cristina Gastón Guirao (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2018
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Heliodoro Piñón Pallarés (presid.), Félix Solaguren-Beascoa de Corral (secret.), María Fernanda Jaua Bouthelier (voc.), Horacio Fernández Martínez (voc.), Edson da Cunha Mahfuz (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Proyectos Arquitectónicos por la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
The construction of each building appears with respect to the space between others. These volumes give way to future edifications. Each proposal participates in the inexhaustible character of the urban complex that surrounds it. The square can mean both free space for the project itself from which it derives, as an extension or part of the surrounding buildings. Hence the interest in this study is based on the scope of `dilating the space between buildings¿, at the same time, as they are incorporated into its vicinity according to the existence of buildings that accompany it.
The research focuses on ten buildings located on the island of Manhattan, amid its network of streets and avenues, where each square meter of constructed solar and roof area achieves astronomical values. We try to deepen the decisions of the architect Gordon Bunshaft from his work in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the office SOM New York, around the occupation of the plot of land and its sensitivity with respect to the singularities of its proximities. The advantages of the generous concessions of free collective space of each project for the city are studied being considerable conscious of the cost and how they revert the options, in benefits of the interest of their neighborhoods.
New York City and its grid have been taken as a laboratory to recognize, analyze, and compare ways of formalizing the bonds of the architectural object around it. The meaning of the differences that appear in the solutions that are possibly equivalent for `lot or combinatorial lots in a block, whole blocks or series of blocks¿; the interlocking of the margins of each element, with its own structural order and constructive modules, and that of adjacent pieces, as an articulated sequence that spins around the urban fabric that characterizes the Big Apple.
The operational resources, assumed in the daily practice of architectural design, which will multiply according to the ability to recognize the circumstances of the origin without end, and in conjunction with the skill of applying techniques and materials with those that are counted on. It is the interest to satisfy the curiosity to glimpse what resolves to be the appearance of each curtain of glasses in the surroundings of the city. It is a matter of inquiring into the cunning of doing much with little. The key is to be found in the subtlety of knowing what is available at each project opportunity and in the combining precision of a renewed formed value systems that will be tested and developed at different levels of intervention, from the smallest to those of greater scope.
The professional work of the architect, in devising the structure of the building to be incorporated in the congested warp of the island of Manhattan, sets in function in certain ways of responding to the place, which make it the catalyzing effect that marks the difference between the before and after of the area. The architecture recognizes and studies the initial conditions of the lot, and then, offers them back in favor of the nearby context from the building that is in creation.
