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The Five Points of a New Architecture in Earthquake Zones Global Earthquake Model Caribbean Regional Panelist Robert V. Woodstock Programme Workshop Trinidad and Tobago, 2011 May 02-04 Configuration
Caribbean Regional Programme Workshop
Trinidad and Tobago, 2011 May 02-04
Panelist – Robert V. Woodstock
The most important architectural d e c i s i o n s t h a t a ff e c t s e i s m i c performance are the critical decisions that create the buildingʼs configuration i.e. its size and shape.
r e c o m m e n d e d o v e r c o m p l e x asymmetrical ones.
perfectly balanced system”
Design, Designing for Earthquakes, A Manual for Architects”
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The Parthenon
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Photo ¡credit: ¡David ¡Mixer.com ¡
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The Domino skeleton consisted of six thin concrete columns that simply carried two horizontal slabs as the floors and another as the roof. The columns a n d s l a b s w e r e c o n n e c t e d b y a
this nothing else was fixed, thus permitting a great flexibility.
Redrawn ¡from ¡Le ¡Corbusier: ¡Oeuvre ¡Complete, ¡Willy ¡Boesiger ¡ Photo ¡credit: ¡Valueyou, ¡Wikiepedia ¡
“The rooms are thereby removed from the dampness of the soil; they have light and air; the building plot is left to the garden, which consequently passes under the house.” ¡
Redrawn ¡from ¡Le ¡Corbusier: ¡Oeuvre ¡Complete, ¡Willy ¡Boesiger ¡ Photo ¡credit: ¡Great ¡Buildings ¡
“The support system carries the intermediate ceilings and rises up to the roof. The interior walls may be placed wherever required, each floor being entirely independent of the rest. ”
moderne, Paris 1926
Redrawn ¡from ¡Le ¡Corbusier: ¡Oeuvre ¡Complete, ¡Willy ¡Boesiger ¡ Photo ¡credit: ¡Great ¡Buildings ¡
The roof gardens will display highly luxuriant vegetation. Shrubs and even small trees up to 3 or 4 metres tall can be planted.
place in the building. In general, roof gardens mean to a city the recovery of all the built- up area.” ¡
Redrawn ¡from ¡Le ¡Corbusier: ¡Oeuvre ¡Complete, ¡Willy ¡Boesiger ¡ Photo ¡credit: ¡Great ¡Buildings ¡
“By projecting the floor beyond the supporting pillars, like a balcony all round the building, the whole facade is extended beyond the supporting construction. It thereby loses its supportive quality and the windows may be extended to any length at will, without any direct relationship to the interior division. ¡
Redrawn ¡from ¡Le ¡Corbusier: ¡Oeuvre ¡Complete, ¡Willy ¡Boesiger ¡ ¡ Photo ¡credit: ¡Great ¡Buildings ¡
moderne, Paris 1926
The whole history of architecture revolves exclusively around the wall apertures. Through the use of the horizontal window, reinforced concrete suddenly provides the possibility of maximum illumination.”
Poissy, France
Photo ¡credit: ¡Valueyou, ¡Wikiepedia ¡
Poissy, France
“It was Le Corbusierʼs Villa Savoye (1929–1931) that most succinctly summed up his five points of architecture that he had elucidated in the journal L'Esprit Nouveau and his book Vers un Architecture which he had been developing throughout the 1920s. First, Le Corbusier lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground, supporting it by pilotis – reinforced concrete stilts. These pilotis, in providing the structural support for the house, allowed him to elucidate his next two points: a free façade, meaning non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished, and an open floor plan, meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls. The second floor of the Villa Savoye includes long strips of ribbon windows that allow unencumbered views of the large surrounding yard, and which constitute the fourth point of his system. The fifth point was the roof garden to compensate for the green area consumed by the building and replacing it on the roof. A ramp rising from ground level to the third floor roof terrace allows for an architectural promenade through the structure. The white tubular railing recalls the industrial "ocean-liner" aesthetic that Le Corbusier much admired. As if to put an exclamation mark after Le Corbusier's homage to modern industry, the driveway around the ground floor, with its semicircular path, measures the exact turning radius of a 1927 Citroen automobile.”
Poissy, France
Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor
Paris, France ¡
Kingston, Jamaica ¡
lying outside questions of construction and beyond them. The purpose of construction is to make things hold together; of architecture TO MOVE US.”
masses brought together in light; Our eyes are made to see forms in light; Light and shade reveal these forms.”
Use a design with the ideal configuration when:
design and analysis for code conformance, simplicity of seismic detailing, and repetition of structural component sizes and placement conditions
With an irregular design configuration:
intentions, should be used from the outset
that may modify the design character, and should be prepared to exploit these as part of the aesthetic language of the design rather than resisting them
their respective disciplines to reduce the effect of irregularities, or to achieve desired aesthetic qualities without compromising structural integrity
may be costly, but it is likely that a building with these conditions will be unusual and important enough to justify additional costs in materials, finishes, and systems.
stories or varied story heights cannot be used, but rather that appropriate structural measures be taken to ensure balanced resistance.
governed by mathematical calculation, puts us in accord with universal law.
shapes he affects our senses to an acute degree and provokes plastic emotions; by the relationships which he creates he wakes profound echoes in us, he gives us the measure of an order which we feel to be in accordance with that of our world, he determines the various movements of our heart and of our understanding; it is then that we experience the sense of beauty.”a
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