Colindancias: estudio de las relaciones de forma entre edificios contiguos
- Autores: María del Carmen Escorihuela Vitales
- Directores de la Tesis: Cristina Gastón Guirao (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2016
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Heliodoro Piñón Pallarés (presid.), Félix Solaguren-Beascoa de Corral (secret.), Maria Pia Fontana (voc.), Julián Galindo (voc.), Carlos Labarta Aizpún (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
Urban architectural proposals arouse a false dilemma between complying site laws or preserving design autonomy. This thesis studies formal relations of projects wherein urban identity prevails, without compromising design at all. lt focuses on different architects working on sites with demanding adjoining relations for different reasons:adjacent building complexities, urban constraints, the need for connection ... Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Ame Jacobsen, Louis Kahn, and George Bunshaft, authors of analyzed projects, had reached professional maturity when they undertook these works: they had managed to develop its own systems of resources and strategies, continually improved, and printed a distinctive personal stamp on everything what they produced. However, the common feature of the selected works is that they represent a new or somehow abnormal situation, with respect to their usual modus operandi: Dr. Curutchet House, La Plata (1949-53) and the Villa "Le Lac"(1923-24) revised 30 years after the first issue of Les Carnets de la Recherché Patiente discussed in the epilogue; buildings in Kluuvi,Helsinki city center: Rautatalo building (1950-55),the former Nordic Union Bank building (1962-64),and the Stockmann Academic Bookstore (1962-69); Jespersen & Son building, Copenhagen (1952-5); Yale University Art Gallery (1951-3) and Yale Center for British Art (1969-7), New Haven, Connecticut; Albright-Knox Gallery addition (1958-2), Buffalo, New York; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University , New Haven. The research objective has been to understand how each architect is able to reveal site opportunities, invisibles from other approaches,solving in a remartcable way what at first appeared to be severe site limitations,by adapting their working systems, using their own resources in favor of the site where incorporated. The study demonstrates the following hypothesis: -Different projects on the same place reveal different places. The place is known when the project is done. ¿The more universal is a conception system, the higher capacity to assume and sensibly answer to the specificities of a particular location. ¿The more sensitive a proposal is to its urban environment, the better way the building solves its inner problems. -Each project relevance depends on both the project's honesty and adaptation to actual circumstances and permanencies. The thesis questions site approach issues as determinants in architectural projects: the direct and long lasting site experience, the need to visit it- chapter 1-; the strategies specificity adopted for a particular location (Chapters 2 and 3);the use of imitation to preserve the site memory (Chapters 4 and 5);the inevitable change in the architect resources used to respond to particular situations -Chapter 6-, etc. On the contrary, it unveils that truly universal values are the only ones able to serve very different specific solutions.The analysis reveals the real level where the nearby buildings conditions are solved, not only physical contact but simultaneity of perception. lt proves that this formal problem asserts building identity.
