Theory Mash-up
In architecture, the golden rule was that buildings
had to be stable and stationary. For
Kahn, form did not necessarily follow function; nor did his projects celebrate
all the new possibilities of industrial materials. Inside this complex structural web, there will be a "media
village" (more like a city actually), complete with places to eat and
play, and a sensational public viewing gallery.
It is a rollercoaster of radical ideas. most
challenging, controversial and critically acclaimed ultramodern buildings Calatrava felt the desire to break up this rigid convention He stated that nature served as his guide, inspiring him to
create buildings that reflected natural shapes and rhythms. He was intensely
interested in the architectural use of zoomorphic forms, a passion evident in
such buildings as Turning Torso (1999–2005), his unique apartment tower in Malmö, Sweden. Its sculptural shape suggested a twisting spinal
column. For the Lyon (France) Airport Railway Station (1989–94), he created a
building that resembled a bird with outspread wings; the interior skeletal
steel frame reinforced this birdlike effect. The bird allusion had symbolic
meaning as well, since the station served as the end point of the route from
Lyon to the airport.Created from
monolithic masonry, and drawing on primary geometries with great circles,
semi-circles and triangles sliced out of their weighty walls, his buildings
exude a timeless and sometimes sinister presence.
They look like
the hastily vacated remnants of a future cosmic civilisation. from utopian
urban-planning to scientific discoveries of molecular structures – all brought
to life through his personal ephemera and correspondence. It became a shape of a 3D Chinese character, its steel
structure forms a continuous spatial loop climbing up and around the volume of
the building. The screen had two ribbed panels that
opened and closed like the wings of a giant seagull, putting the entire edifice
into motion, and giving the sense of a building that could take flight.
Green- Welcome to the future
Red - How Santiago Calatrava blurred the lines between architecture and engineering to make buildings move
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