Canadian Centre for Architecture Support Grant presentation 2010

1. DESTRUCTION:
THE IMPACT OF
CATASTROPHIC EVENTS
ON ARCHITECTURE:
BETWEEN
KEEPING THE MEMORY AND
PROJECT OCCASION
cercet. drd. arh. Maria BOSTENARU DAN

2. RUINS OF THE
MOMENT
Constanze Baum

3. The only ruins maintained today
Carmo Convent

4. Cathedral Santa Maria, engraving, Jan Kozak collection
Ruins Lisbon 1755 imediately after
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5. The new Baixa neighbourhood built after 1755

6. Earthquake resistant structure imposed after the 1755 earthquake through
urban regulation, in renovation today
Casa pombalina

7. FIRE – THE MOMENT OF
THE CATASTROPHE OR
BEFORE AND AFTER?
OR THE MOMUMENT?

8. Architecture faculty of the Delft University, the Netherlands, 2008
Fire
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9. Manege Militaire, Quebec, 2008, before fire
Fire
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10. Manege Militaire, Quebec, 2008, after fire
Fire

11. Mayor Banu Manta 2009
Fire
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12. Mayor Banu Manta 2009
Fire

13. London, 1666
Reconstruction in the old pattern
After the fire Christopher Wren built the Sf. Paul cathedral and the monument
Urban fire
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14. Sf. Paul, London, Canaletto image, 1754
Urban fire
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15. RUINS
DEMOLITION AND
REBUILD

16. 1900
Gedächtniskirche Berlin
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17. 1954
Gedächtniskirche Berlin
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18. 2007
Gedächtniskirche Berlin
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19. UAR headquaters

20. Casa Paucescu, 2000
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21. UAR headquaters

22. Casa Paucescu, 2000
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23. UAR headquaters

25. Nicolae Ionescu
Teatrul Naţional
National Theatre Calea Victoriei
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26. Hotel Novotel

27. CCA

28. CCA garden

29. demolition
Henrietta Delavrancea-Gibory

30. demolition
Henrietta Delavrancea-Gibory

31. demolition
Henrietta Delavrancea-Gibory

32. Henrietta Delavrancea-Gibory

33. Henrietta Delavrancea-Gibory

34. Club A block, in place of hanul Ion Românul

35. Club A block, in place of hanul Ion Românul

36. Club A block, in place of hanul Ion Românul
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37. Club A block, in place of hanul Ion Românul
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39. Reconstruction after the fire 1689
Gothic, then baroque
Black Church Braşov

40. REPHOTOGRAPHING
BEFORE AND AFTER

41. COPYRIGHT

42. Bibliografy
 Tickle your catastrophe!
 http://www.catastrophe.ugent.be/
 Ruin value
 Catastrophy, artistic presentation

43. Ruins as memory
 Modernity, 18th century, Piranesi
 The ruins of antiquity
 18th century, Lisbon earthquake 1755
 Ruins of the moment (Constanze Baum)
 Created within a short time by the earthquake
 Deleted in short time through reconstruction
 The ruin in the urban landscape
 San Francisco 1908: urban images (technique)

44. Piranesi (1720-1778), Vedute (Forum Nerva)
Ruins of antiquity
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45. CATASTROPHE/
DESTRUCTION
PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE
CCA

46.  Archive photography
 Documentary photography
 Rephotographing
 19th century

47. 19th century photography of
catastrophes
 The scope of photography
 Not documentation
 Souvernir (made for sale)
 Popular format: stereo
 Photographing in series
 Known photographers

48.  Earthquake
 Flood
 Fire
 Volcano (Pompei) – Giorgio Sommer
 Paris Commune
 Alfred Capel-Cure (ruins and vegetation):
blasted oaks

49. Paris Commune
 The first man-made ruins which evoked the
same poetics as those of Antiquity
 fire

50. Earthquake
 San Francisco, USA
 Norcia, Italy
 Antigua

51. Earthquake
 Arnold Genthe
 Robert Macpherson
 Eadweard Muybridge
 R.J. Waters & Co
 James Stoddard
 Willard Worden

52. Flood
 Norwich 1878, England
 Latchford 1890, England
 Waburton 1891
 Johnstown 1889
 Avignon, France
 Montreal, Canada
 Conemaugh, USA
 Brisbane, Australia

53. Flood
 Edouard Baldus
 G. Herbert Bayley
 Alexander Henderson
 Charles Rudd

54. Fire
 Boston 1860, USA
 St. Claude, France
 Paris (Commune), France
 Philadelphia, USA
 Louisiana, USA
 Notre Dame de Montreal, Canada
 Chicago, USA
 Quebec, Canada
 Illinois, USA
 Portland (Maine), USA

55. Fire
 J. Andrieu
 Edouard Baldus
 George N. Barnard
 James Wallace Black
 Robert Burley
 Alfred Capel-Cure
 Franck
 Frederick Gutekunst
 Brian Merrett
 A. Richebourg
 C. Seaver Jr.
 John P. Soule
 William Notman & Son

56. Volcano
 Giorgio Sommer photographer also the
volcano (not in the collection)

57. Paris Commune
 Gustave Le Gray
 J. Andrieu
 Bruno Braquehais
 Albert Fernique
 Franck
 C. Jung
 A. Richebourg
 Charles Soulier

58. 20TH CENTURY
HERITAGE
REAL OR DIGITAL
CONSERVATION/
DOCUMENTATION
INTERVENTION

59. Romania
Greece
Italy
Multifamily housing from the 1930

60. Bucharest – Marcel Janco
Como – Rationalism
Ljubljana – Joze Plecnik
Buildings on urban parcours

61. Neapel – Mostra d Oltremare
Athens – Army Pension Fund Building
Retrofited interwar buildings

62. THE USE OF DAMAGE
PHOTOS 20TH CENTURY

63.  August Sander
 Köln 1945
 Warning how politics can destroy the beauty of cities

64. THE USE OF
(EARTHQUAKE) DAMAGE
PHOTOS TODAY

67. Earthquake damage Romania 1977
Karl Steinbrugge collection photos
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68. Shear damage
Earthquake in Romania 1977
Karl Steinbrugge collection photos

69. Michael Markus
SFB461 C7 Karlsruhe
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70.  Haiti desktop reconnaisance
 Randolph Langenbach
 extracts

71. THE ARCHITECTURE
OF MEMORY

72. The covered/rediscovered space

73. Presentation in the artistic project

74. Covered with sand

76. Scenography installation
Sand

77. Scenography installation
Sand

78. hear
Rediscovered space

79. see
Rediscovered space

80. see
Rediscovered space

81. see
Rediscovered space

82. taste
Rediscovered space

83. smell
Rediscovered space

89. Rediscovered space

90. Rediscovered space

91. Rediscovered space

92. Rediscovered space

93. Covered with vegetation

94. Westfacade of the Eldena ruin
Caspar David Friedrich
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95. Faial, Azore, church collapsed in the 1998 earthquake, photo 2008
Vegetation

96. Project Paradise garden, going out of „Thorn rose“ (Grimm)
Vegetation

97. „Paradise garden“ project
Doors through the key of primordial elements

98. Connections
 Mythology and elements
 Landscape project, “the door” to enter the
rediscovered space through the key of
elements
 The idea of entry door: shadow, projection,
reflection
 Project “Water museum” – dual character

99. Landscape project using the elements key

100. The labyrinth, initiation garden in Renaissance gardens (Schönbrunn,
Viena, Austria)
Vegetation

101. Covered with water

102. Diploma project „Water museum“
AQUA MEGA

103. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
Water
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104. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
Water
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105. Covered with other buildings

106. Quebec city
Covering by new construction

107. Quebec city
Covering by new construction

108. Quebec city
Covering by new construction

109. Lipscani, Bucharest
Uncovering by new construction

110. Keeping the memory in
intervention projects

111. Intervention projects
 Building retrofit
 Change of function, material, shape
 Social change
 Charter and Declaration of Amsterdam (1975)
 Integrated conservation (interdisciplinary between
architecture and urbanism)
 Bibliografie
http://www.icomos.org/docs/amsterdam.html

112. Intervention projects
 3 examples
 Gibellina (film Jörg Burger, 2007, Austria)
 San Giuliano di Puglia after the Molise
earthquake, 2002
 Literature
Randolph Langenbach, Alberto Dusi: On the Cross of
Sant'Andrea: The Response to the Tragedy of San
Giuliano di Puglia Following the 2002 Molise, Italy,
Earthquake, Earthquake Spectra Volume 20, Issue
S1, 2004, p. S341-S358
http://www.conservationtech.com
 C.A.S.E. L„Aquila
 Project leader Gian Michele Calvi, Pavia, Italia

113. Modern town, touristic museum, like Rouen, ville nouvelle, in which the
citizens have not adapted
Gibellina
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114. San Giuliano di Puglia
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115. Seismic concept C.A.S.E. L Aquila
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116. Urban layout l„Aquila
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117. l„Aquila one year after

118. l„Aquila one year after

119. l„Aquila one year after

120. l„Aquila one year after

121. l„Aquila one year after

122. l„Aquila one year after

123. C.A.S.E. l„Aquila

124. C.A.S.E. l„Aquila

125. C.A.S.E. l„Aquila

126. C.A.S.E. l„Aquila

127. C.A.S.E. l„Aquila

128. C.A.S.E. l„Aquila

129. Architecture and urbanism

130. UIA and l„Aquila
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131. UIA and l„aquila

132. UIA and l„Aquila

133. IUAV and l„Aquila

134. Literature
 movimenti moderni:
terremoti e architettura 1883-2004
Eventi sismici e occasioni di progetto, da
Messina a San Giuliano di Puglia
di Michele Bonino e Chiara Calderini
PARAMETRO
numero 251 Anno XXXIV Maggio/Giugno 2004
 Interview Gian Michele Calvi
 New antiseismic housing L„Aquila, 2009

135. THANK YOU!