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jueves, 7 de enero de 2016

WHO IS PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA?

Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a Brazilian architect and urbanist. He was born in October 25th, 1928 in Vitória, Brazil. He won the Mies van der Rohe awar in 2001 and in 2006 he won the Pritzker Prize; he is one of the most representative architects of the Brazilian Paulista School, also known as "Paulista Brutalism" that utilizes more geometric lines, rougher finishes and bulkier massing than other Brazilian Modernists such as Oscar Niemeyer. He has been producing buildings since 1957, many of them were built in concrete, and most of them are located in São Paulo, Brazil.

His Home


In 1964 Mendes da Rocha designed his own house , built in the Butanta neighborhood of São Paulo , and it was finished in 1967.



The building is designed with the idea of ​​prefabrication , with a modular structure to adapt to future changes and it’s built with concrete.







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INNOVATIONS

 1. MATERIALS


-CONCRETE: the construction of Mendes Da Rocha house coincide on a period when they research about the possibilities of reinforced concrete and the relation between artificial construction and natural ground.On the post-war period in Brasil, concrete looked like the tool to meet the needs of society. Butanta house explore teh possibilities of concrete inside the building, and although it was made in situ, its elements could be prefabricated. Da Rocha achieves the sensation of weightlessness for the heaviest materials suspending the volumes near the ground, and also with the horizontality of the building.













HORIZONTAL


SUSPENDING VOLUMES

Concrete is used in structural issues and in the smaller items.

CHIMNEY
SHOWER





















-WOOD + GLASS + TILE: Concrete, wood glass ant tile are almost the only material. Luxury doesn’t come from the use of exclusive materials, but by the relationship between space and structure.



2. STRUCTURE



The structure consists of a latticework made of thin sheets of concrete which produces the sensation of lightness. Due to the poor soil resistance, loads were concentrated on the fewest possible points, so the whole structure is based on four pilotis. This solution makes it look like the house is floating.

























The structure of this house is very similar to the Villa Saboya from Le Corbusier. Both have the same square shape in plant and pilotis in the first floor.




















3. LIGHT

All the facades get the sunlight because the house is rotated 45º north and the sun comes diagonally. As the cover is bigger than the main floor, the central areas are are illuminated by skylights.






Windows are located in the short facades and have the same length.














In this case we can see that Mendes da Rocha used the concept of ‘long window’ that Le Corbusier had used 30 years ago on Villa Saboya.














4. NEW TECHNOLOGIES

-VENTILATION: The house is ventilated between the two walls with windows. Mendes da Rocha didn’t reach the ceiling, so the wind can flow in every room.

-WINDOWS: Mendes da Rocha invented the mechanism of the Windows. A glass with almost no carpentry with a mechanism that allows the pivot of each window and the ventilation. The window is in equilibrium when it’s open, so it goes to that position alone with no effort. In addition, windows don’t need to be open for the ventilation, due to the expansion of the glass.


-INSTALATIONS: The shower projected by Mendes da Rocha looks like a capsule, and S shaped pipes are used as towel rack on the bathroom. Desktops and dining table are made of concrete.










martes, 5 de enero de 2016

METHODOLOGY


1.-Modulation: 


The building is proyected with an ideaof prefabrication: a modulated structure able to adapt to future changues.


-Second floor:






 -First floor:



2.-Scale: 


The scale used in the house is a M scale where de repetitive elements (RE) are de private rooms and the singular elements (SE) are common spaces, forming this way the second floor agregation level (AL).


RE + SE = AL


lunes, 4 de enero de 2016

LANGUAGE


1.- THE MODERN LANGUAGE


 It is closely related to the pictorial vanguards. It begins to raise its own reality. Authors such as Picasso, which pose new roads, new possibilities. Impressions of reality (Impressionism) cubism, pointillism, appear Neoplasticism is represented. An essential element that characterizes the art sought, and your answer will be the level where upon it, it represents things. The flat as a compositional element.

Mendes da Rocha makes its language from raw materials (), looking for that spectacular and sensual effects more internalized. The inverted trapezoid Contemporary Arts Museum of Sao Paulo (1975) and moved Bauhaus building facade of Sao Paulo (1984) seem to contradict this aesthetic, however confirmed by discrete titrations Jaraguà residential buildings (1984) and Aspen (1986), the design studio Form (1988) and residence Gerassi (1990). His designs are based on straight lines and the use of concrete level.


2.BASES OF MODERN LANGUAGE:


1.-Neoplasticism (De Sijl): It is an attempt to return to the purity and nobility of architecture.
The language happens to be an absolute value to a mere communication tool.
Architects design based on the classic architectural style buildings, but was restrained in decoration.
Are based on pure volume: cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.

2.-Wright and the box rupture.

3.-Systematization of language:

-Free plant: The ground floor of the house is an open space where there is an entrance to the first floor.
-Pilotis
-The house is suspended on four pillars, leaving the ground floor.
-Window run



3.-SPACES:

- Private/public spaces:

Butantã house rises on the site of a small hill looking light and a relationship with the trees and the city. The ground floor is free and the home of this mode is suspended. The interior wall of housing does not reach the ceiling, creating a fluid space that favours the ventilation inside. In this way it does not favour the separation between public and private space.
The ideal architecture Mendes da Rocha is the creation of public spaces as far as possible the extension of public space. Generate architecture that does not privatize the space and instead extend the public. If the work is private and cannot generate public spaces remain, Mendes da Rocha extends the space with the view; it generates no boundaries or a wall as there is an intention that no limits have been marked. 



"All space is attributable to a value to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space you can imagine is the human mind. If you are a poet, the first idea you have of a poem is to publish"
 
The idea of social architecture that seeks to generate public spaces is supported by the fact the privatization of architecture and city of Brazil. The project tries to make the public house as possible, leaving open spaces on the ground floor and the first floor. While the private part is closed and all is bounded by walls that frame the spaces.
This framing of space is perceived as a control space, understood as a control to the private sector.


The ideal of Mendes da Rocha of making architecture which will foster public character is reflected in the Butantã home.

-Area served/server:










-Access:






4.- House Butantã VS. Ville Savoye


-Elevations: The elevations of both houses have their similarity in piles that are responsible for sustaining the houses and structures in the rectangular shape of the upper floors.








- Plants: The first floor of the house Butantã has a slight resemblance to the ground floor of Ville Savoye.





domingo, 3 de enero de 2016

BIBLIOGRAPHY


  • AV Monografías.Madrid: Arquitectura Viva SL, 2013.
  • Otondo, C., Paulo Gouvea, J. Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Córdoba: Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea, 2012.
  • Guilherme, W. Paulo Mendes da Rocha: obra reciente. Brasil: 2G: Revista Internacional de Arquitectura, 1928.
  • Helio, P. Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Barcelona: UPC, 2003.
  • Mª Montaner, J., Isabel Villac, M. Mendes da Rocha.  Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1996.
WEBS
  • http://catalogo.artium.org/dossieres/exposiciones/premios-pritzker-viaje-por-la-arquitectura-contemporanea/casa-en-butanta-1967
  • http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/02-341082/clasicos-da-arquitectura-casa-en-butanta-paulo-mendes-da-rocha-y-joao-degennaro 
  • http://miguelbarahona.es/DI174-report%20CASA%20DA%20ROCHA.pdf 
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Mendes_da_Rocha 
  • https://www.behance.net/gallery/20398553/ANALISIS-CASA-BUTANTA-PROYECTO-LUGAR
  • http://catalogo.artium.org/dossieres/exposiciones/premios-pritzker-viaje-por-la-arquitectura-contemporanea/biografia-y-obra-19