2. Milwaukee Art Museum
city of arts and sciences
CHORDS BRIDGE
COMUNICATION
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Torre Turning Torso
80 SOUTH STREET
3. Name: Santiago Calatrava Valls
Date of Birth: 28th July, 1951
Country: Spain
Firm: Santiago Calatrava
Spanish-born architect (born 1951)
born in Benimámet,Spain, where he pursued
undergraduate studies at the Architecture School and
Arts and Crafts School.
gained international celebrity for structures that suggest
the shapes and the motion of organic entities
Following graduation in 1975, he enrolled in the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland,
for graduate work in civil engineering. In 1981, after
completing his doctoral thesis,
"On the Foldability of Space Frames", he started his
architecture and engineering practice
Santiago Calatrava Valls is an internationally
recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish
architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal
office is in Zurich, Switzerland
WE CAN SAY THAT Santiago Calatrava IS
ARTIST – SCULPTURE – CIVIL ENGINEER - ARCHITECT
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antony Gaudi
human figure and nature‟s
materials and their properties
Calatrava‟s style has been heralded as bridging the division
between structural engineering and architecture. He derives his
inspiration from,a tradition of Spanish modernist engineering that
includes Félix Candela and Antonio Gaudí
The Art of Structural Engineering
An Exhibit on the Work of Félix Candel MIT
Los Manantiales Restaurant
City of Arts and Sciences
6. 80 SOUTH STREET
Milwaukee Art Museum
Torre Turning Torso
city of arts and sciences
COMUNICATION
TOWER
CHORDS BRIDGE
7. The city of Milwaukee was looking for a “strong architectural
statement in an exciting yet
functional building” that would “set an architectural standard
for the next millennium”
Calatrava‟s response was to design “a glowing „lantern‟ on the
downtown lakefront, radiating light in all directions”.
He chose to execute this concept through a pavilion featuring
a “vast, glass-enclosed reception hall” with a “transparent,
boat-like prow of unique design, facing the
lake” and a “huge, wing-like sunscreen
ِٔضٕح كايم نهجظاء
ّٛاالَشائ
ٔاظٓار ػُاصزِ ٔانذيج
تٍٛ انشكم ٔانٓٛكم
The design did not result from a sketch. It came out of a close
collaboration with the clients… who truly wanted from me the best
architecture that I could do. Their ambition was to create
something exceptional for their community.
9. The City of Arts and Sciences, developed by Santiago Calatrava,
is a large-scale urban recreation center for culture and science.
As the site is close to the sea, and Valencia is so dry, I decided to
make water a major element for the whole site using it as a mirror
for the architecture.
Santiago Calatrava
11. The bridge is located near the main entrance to the city,
near the Central Bus Station.
The bridge was built to carry Jerusalem's future light rail lines
across a dense urban area, resolving traffic and pedestrian issues,
and to create a new landmark for the entrance to the city.
The slender and streamlined
triangular-shaped steel box of the
pylon is inclined backwards to show
visible tension, as well as create a
clear visual direction towards the city.
The cables are arranged in a
parabolic shape, which develops
three-dimensionally in space, thus
amplifying the impressive visual
impact unique to this bridge. Overall
the strings and form of this structure
suggest a giant harp - the harp of King
David as a symbol of the holy city inspiring residents to refer to it as the
"Bridge of Strings."
13. The tower is 136 meters
high, leaning gently
from a three-point
foundation, with the
tower‟s feet resting on
a brick drum.
some sketches for The Montjuic
Communications Tower
When I just looked at an image of
the tower, I was thinking something
related with a NEEDLE or a SWORD?
The straight line on top of the tower
just took my brain to something sharp
and thin. But after I saw his sketches
for the tower, I know I‟m wrong-same
as usual, he started his inspiration
with a human body- leg, or a
movement, and yes,when I‟m
lookeing at the tower, I can see the
shape of the tower relates with his
inspiration perfectly
14. The base of tower, is
closed by a door
formed using metal
blades. It‟s renewing
his interest in
moveable elements
in architecture, and
also it related to his
studies of the human
eye, designed an
“eye-shaped” for
opening area.
Calatrava used broken tile around a
circular shell of white concrete.
15. The 190 meter tall concrete
and steel tower turns 90
degrees from bottom to top.
Designed for a prominent
urban site on the occasion of
the European Housing Expo
2001, Calatrava's residential
tower for Malmö, at the city's
West Harbor, is based in form
on his sculpture Turning Torso.
Conceived to enhance and
enlarge a public area,
defined by the intersection of
two main roads, the "Turning
Torso" building is meant to be
seen as a free-standing
sculptural element posed
within the cityscape
16. In the original sculpture of
Turning Torso, seven cubes
are set around a steel
support to produce a spiral
structure, which resembles a
twisting human spine
.إػطاء االطتقزار نألدجاو انصهثح
ٖقطاع ٔيظاقط افقّٛ تٕضخ انذم انًؼًار
17. The building will be Mr. Calatrava's first residential project in the
United States. The principal units of the building are twelve 45foot glazed cubes. Each of which contains four floors of
residential space. The core contains the building plant, main
elevators, service elevator, and emergency stair. So that usable
space within the cubes is maximized.
18. The roof of each cube will be
the outdoor garden for the unit
above
