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PROGRAMME
Design studio BSc2
Professor: Walter Angonese
Assistants: Francesca Caravello
Roi Carrera
Margherita Pusterla
atelier angonese
Università della Svizzera Italiana
Accademia di architettura - Mendrisio
Autumn semester 2017
1° edition - printed in september 2017
AN INHABITED STRUCTURE
ATELIER ANGONESE AAM SA 2017 AN INHABITED STRUCTURE
Contents
build, don’t talk- Ludwig Mies van der Hohe -
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any decision needs a reflection- Hermann Czech -
THEME Walter Angonese / An inhabited structure
A context / A concept
Iconographic references
The programme / Exercise 02
Iconographic references
TEXTS Jürg Conzett / Structure as space
Eduard F. Sekler / Structure, construction, tectonics
E. Torroja / Fifteen aesthetic commandments
METHODOLOGY Walter Angonese / Reflections on the method
Walter Angonese / Interstial thinking
EXERCISE 1 Walter Angonese / Redrawing and rebuilding
João Vilanova Artigas / Architecture and construction
Exercise 1 “10 houses of João Vilanova Artigas”
10 HOUSES Architect‘s house
Czapski house
Baeta house
Triangle’s house
Bitencourt house
Ivo Viterito house
Mendes Andre house
Elza Berquo house
Martirani house
Domschke house
TRAVEL ITINERARY Travel in Galicia / Madrid - SA17
Travel in Morroco - SP18
Calendar
Select bibliography
Acknowledgments
Credits
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An inhabited structure Preface by Walter Angonese
Tectonic thinking in architecture, understood as the broader set of constructional, structural and
static elements, is one of the foundations on which our teaching method of “building the idea” is
based.
The term tectonic comes from the ancient Greek.
Originally restricted to the craft of the carpenter and the builder, called “Tekton”, it evolved through
the centuries towards a more general concept of “making”, including the idea of poesis, aspiring
to the category of aesthetics as well as technology, as Adolf Borbein stressed in his philosophical
study of 1982:1
Tectonic becomes the art of joining. “Art“ here is to be understood as encompassing tekne, and
therefore indicates tectonic as assemblage not only of building parts but also of objects, indeed of
artworks in a narrower sense. With regard to the ancient understanding of the word, tectonic tends
toward the construction or making of an artisanal or artistic product....It depends much more upon
the correct and incorrect applications of the artisanal rules, or the degree to which its usefulness
has been achieved. Only to this extent does tectonic also involve judgment over art production.
Here, however, lies the point of departure for the expanded clarification and application of the idea
in more recent art history: as soon as an aesthetic perspective – and not a goal of utility – is defined
that specifies the work and production of the tekton, then the analysis consigns the term “ tectonic
“ to an aesthetic judgement”.2
The principle of building – and not just in architecture – is the result of an activity, namely structuring:
giving a structure to things and meanings. The importance of the structure ought to go beyond the
usual confines of a scientific approach and manifest itself as tectonic expressiveness in an interstitial
dimension, between its physical-mathematical and artistic-cultural significance. Tectonics, as we
understand the term, is bound up with an act of architectural creation and manifests the architect’s
intention to make visible the intangible concept of the structure through a particular constructive
and expressive manifestation rooted in its time and in a given place.
It does not refer only to the task of producing the material construction necessary to meet certain
requirements and bound up with a principle of statics, but also with the activity that raises this
construction to a form of art 3.
“An inhabited structure” is a challenge for us to extend the significance of occupying a space
generated by the interplay between a system of forces, and exploring the many possibilities inherent
in the intrinsic meaning of structure, “an essentially autonomous entity of internal dependencies” 4
but one that is continuously changing.
An analytical approach to space was indicated by Konrad Wachsmann’s research into space,
understood as a mathematical function, produced by the human mind, and as such it can be
constructed, inhabited. Wachsmann thus theorized an infinite architecture that is identified with
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the space in which it is set. In modularity, Wachsmann expressed the possibility of its assembly
and development in infinite space, thanks to a rigorous construction technique that enables the
ideational moment to be fulfilled without mediation in the construction 5.
“An inhabited structure” can also be understood as the act of sitting in a chair, since it is a structure
and has a tectonic, architectural entity, hence it is space. It is clear that the notion of dwelling,
habitually occupying a place or home, requires a spatial entity that is defined and circumscribed.
The very notion of space represents an extension of the body, but to define structure it is not
enough to determine the limits or insert pillars; the structural dimension is attained when a system
of relationships is established between the interplay of forces and the corresponding arrangement
of building elements that define form and space.
It is not necessary for structural thinking to be immediately present, even in its intuitive dimension,
in the process of “building the idea”, or whether it is instead a spatial architectural intuition.
What is important is that it should be considered in a specific and primary way.
As Pier Luigi Nervi wrote: “The conception of a resistant system is a creative act that is only
partly based on scientific principles. The static sensibility that determines it, though a necessary
consequence of the study of equilibrium and the resistance of materials, remains a purely personal
capacity, like the aesthetic sensibility.”6
The value of intuitive and conscious meditation has to draw on history, on collective and even
contemporary experience, as a source of knowledge and method, and enables us to be less
arbitrary in our choices. “An inhabited structure” is not to be understood as the act of physically
or conceptually occupying something that is already present, but as building the structure first and
then living in it, or even building it while living in it.
We can therefore claim that any architectural act should be associated with this structural
conception. In this field, the architectural world is divided: all too often its value is associated only
with its spatial/cultural entity, directed at the object and seeking to create or be reduced to its
notion of statics, the sole task being to absorb the flow of forces.
This year we wish to explore architecture in this fertile space between the physical and cultural
dimension, an experiment that seeks to restore awareness of tectonics in architecture. To enable us
to concentrate intensely on the theme of the structure, no specific context will be assigned.
Left to the student’s discretion is the choice of a place of his or her knowledge or memory, strong
enough not to be undermined and to accept the presence of a structural entity to be inhabited.
The housing programme is limited to 50 square metres, with the requirement that the space should
be related to everyday life (living, sleeping, etc.). The project will be explored down to the scale of
the constructional detail, developing and verifying the initial structural insight.
Several iconographic references will be included and will serve as a further element of understanding.
The semester, as usual, will start with the “redrawing and rebuilding” of ten significant houses in
the international architectural panorama.
This year we will devote research and study to the great architect and engineer João Battista Vilanova
Artigas, a prominent exponent of the Brazilian Paulista school. His buildings are all related to precise
and sustained tectonic thinking, which he succeeded in conveying in a spatial architectural concept
still unmatched today.
THEME
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Kenneth Frampton, Studies in tectonic culture, edith by John Cave, The MIT Press, cambridge, London, 1996, p.4;
Adolf Heinrich Borbein, “Tektonic, zur Geschichte eines Begriffs der Archäologie”, Archiv für Begreiffsgeschichte 26, n. 1
(1982);
Anderson, Modern Architecture Industrial Design, p. 83;
Louis T. Hjelmslev in Tristano Bolelli (a cura di), Linguistica generale, strutturalismo, linguistica storica: testi, note introduttive,
indici, Nistri-Lischi, Pisa 1971;
Pietro Zampetti, progetti di linguaggio, sistema di notazione per l’architettura italiana 1964-1973, Sapienza Università di
Roma, Dipartimento di architettura e progetto, dottorato;
Peter Eisenman, La fine del classico, in Peter Eisenman, Inside Out. Scritti 1963 – 1988, Quodlibet, Macerata 2014;
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The method of redrawing and physically rebuilding ten houses in models made of MDF will
introduce the students to all the factors and instruments that should be part of their architectural
equipment, and will make for an equally rapid learning of measurements, standards, vocabulary
and scale, a method that has proved very effective over the years.
Finally, since travelling to Brazil is out of the question, the field trip – an integral part of the teaching
process – will be devoted to the great Spanish architect Alejandro de la Sota, one of the fathers of
Spanish architectural success (together with Josep Antoni Coderch), whose works, with a similar
rigour, embodied an outstanding ability to combine tectonic and architectural thinking. The four-
day trip will take us from Galicia to Madrid. In addition to buildings by Alejandro de la Sota, on our
journey we will visit works by some of the disciples of this great architect.
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01 Architect’s house Campo Belo, São Paolo 1942 / 49 02 Czapski house Sumaré, São Paolo 1949 03 Baeta house Butantã, São Paolo 1956 04 Triangle’s house Sumaré, São Paolo 1958
05 M. Taques Bitencourt house Sumaré , São Paolo 1959 06 Ivo Viterito house Aclimação, São Paolo 1962 07 Mendes André house Vila Mariana, São Paolo 1966
08 Elza Berquo house Jardim Dircinha, São Paolo 1967 09 Martirani house Alto de Pinheiros, São Paolo 1969 10 Domschke house Alto de Boa Vista, São Paolo 1974
EXERCISE 1 “REDRAWING AND REBUILDING 10 HOUSES”
The first phase of the studio sessions will focus on “an inhabited structure” through the redraw
and rebuild of ten significant houses by the architect João Battista Vilanova Artigas. The selection
of houses serves to bring out themes recurrent in his works, very differently distributed over the
years. For this exercise the students will be divided into groups.
Each group will be assigned a house to be redesigned in vector drawings on a scale of 1:50 by
developing plans, sections and facades. An accurate drawing, faithful to the original, is required.
Both the study material and the guidelines for the graphic design will be provided. On the basis
of the graphic material produced, which will include personal research and interpretation of the
material provided, each group will make a model of the house on a scale of 1:33, connected
with the internal spatial qualities of the house and its details, anticipated by a small study model
on a scale of 1:100. This model will display the structural and tectonic approach to the house
and make it possible to assess the value of the use of colour, which in some of Artigas’s houses
is closely bound up with their tectonic features.
This phase of analysis and structural study will receive support from the engineer Roberto Guidotti.
The models will be made of wood and will have to be painted white.
For the development of the models and instructions for their construction, detailed information
will be provided at the beginning of the semester through the support of Danilo Bruno, who is in
charge of the modelling workshop. This learning experience will enable the students to acquire
the ability to compare different projects and analyse them critically, with these abilities being
refined in the process of abstraction by making models on a scale of 1:33.
01 Architect‘s house 02 Czapski house
04 Triangle’s house 05 Bitencourt house 03 Baeta house
10 houses of João Vilanova Artigas
07 Mendes Andre house06 Ivo Viterito house 08 Elza Berquo house
10 Domschke house09 Martirani house
Drawing
1:50 Situation plan, elevation, section according to the layout given by the Atelier.
Model1:33 White model, made of wood-mdf material.
1:100 Structural study model, made of cartboard
Calendar
21.09.17 W01 Presentation of exercise 1 and lecture by Roberto Guidotti
28.09.17 W02 End-in of the mock-up model 1:100 and first draft of drawings
04.10.17 W03 End-in of the second draft pdf drawings with final layout
19.10.17 W05 End-in of exercise: presentation and exhibition
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Travel itinerary
GALICIA - MADRID
TRAVEL ITINERARY
Alejandro De la Sota‘s projects:
145Varela House, 1964;
146Residencial buinding, 1972;
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148Dominguez House, 1976;
149Calculation Unit, 1975;
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‘Colegio Maravillas’, 1961;151
‘Cesar Carlos’ High School,1967;152
Sport Pavillion, 1966;
12:30 R. Molezún, Roiba house
15:00 A. De la Sota, Dominguez house
16:30 A. De la Sota, Residential building Pontevedra
16:30 A. De la Sota, Sports pavillion
18:30 M. Gallego Jorreto, House in Corrubedo
19:30 D. Chipperfield, House in Corrubedo
06:45 Flight from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid
10:30 Alejandro De la Sota Fundation
11:30 A. De la Sota, Gymnasium of ‘Colegio Maravillas’
13:30 M. Fisac, Hidrographic study center
16:00 Fernando Higueras Fundation
17:30 F. Oíza, BBVA - Bilbao’s bank
18:30 Architectural promenade along Paseo de la Castellana
19:30 Francisco Alonso de Santos, Shoe shop ‘Manuel Losada’
21:00 Herzog & de Meuron, ‘Caixa forum’
09:00 A. De la Sota, ‘Cesar Carlos’ High School
10:30 A. De la Sota, CENIM
11:30 R. Molezún, Huarte house
13:00 F. Alonso de Santos, house in ‘Puerta de Hierro’
16:00 S. Zuazo, ‘Casa de las flores’
17:30 Mansilla + Tuñón, Museum of Royal Collections
18:30 J. I. Linazasoro, ‘Escuelas Pias’
20:00 ‘Matadero’
09:00 Molezún y Corrales, Pavilion of exagonos
10:15 Ensamble studio, Hemeroscopium house
11:30 A. De la Sota, Varela house
13:30 Fernando Higueras, Lucio Muñoz house
13:30 15:00 MVRDV, ‘El Mirador’ collective housing
16:00 A. De la Sota, Dairy CLESA
16:30 A. De la Sota, Calculation Unit
20:45 Flight from Madrid to Milan Malpensa
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MOROCCO TRAVEL SP18
The field trip in the second semester will take us to Morocco, travelling to the cities of Marrakech and
Casablanca. Morocco is a fascinating country, with its blending of different cultures and its architecture
expressed in a impermanence, between past and present.
What the memory retains, engraved in my mind from those golden days, and the experience of
friendship, brings it closer to the latent and mythical essence of Happiness, feed of the rest of our days
(the sun lappes the sea, seen from the tower of the unfinished Mosque of Rabat, set on a sprinkled
ground of shafts and column foundations, baths on the deserted beaches of the Atlantic, high and soft
waves, Roman ruins at the sight, dust covering horses and knights, rifles fired a meter away, windows
open in a broken car, boiling under the sun, refusing the Atlas as the Desert, curved trunk upon the
entrance of the Mosque of Fez, leather tinged with a thousand colors, odor as unbearable as beautiful,
sharp line on the desert frontier, black pebble against sand in the color of Gauguin, calm in the terraces
where one drinks mint tea, silence or whisper, sweet look, look and voice of an ancient culture of wise
men and poets, landing in Algeciras, again the shrilly voices, in the cafes and in the terraces).
I remember this and more and I do not believe it’s just nostalgia. I remember the absence of anxiety.
The presence of absence. Alvaro Siza July 2006 Porto. (translation edited by Atelier Angonese)
153-154-155-156Alexandre Alves Costa, Alvaro Siza,
1967 Marrocos, Circo de Ideias, 2011;157
Delacroix, les carnets du Marocco, 158-159
Gabriele Basilico,Marrocco 1971, Umboldt books;
160Marrakech, Morroco,©Virginia Duran;
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WEN 20.09.2017 16:30 Atelier presentation THU 21.09.2017 09:00 First meeting in atelier 09:30 Opening lecture by Walter Angonese “An inhabited structure” e “The construction of the idea” 11:00 Presentation / Starting exercise °1 “Redrawing and Rebuilding” 14:00 Presentation “Study trip / E02“Stimmung” Lecture by R. Guidotti about “João Battista Vilanova Artigas”FRI 22.09.2017 09:00 Atelier TH 28.09.2017 06:00 Atelier + drawings critic / end-in of sctructural mockup / start 1:30FRI 29.09.2017 09:00 Atelier
WEN 04.10.2017 18:30 End-in of pdf drawings exercise 01 THU 05.10.2017 07:20 Study trip - departure SUN 08.10.2017 20:45 Study trip - return THU 12.10.2017 09:00 End-in of pdf / jpg exercise 02 + atelier FRI 13.10.2017 09:00 Atelier THU 19.10.2017 09:00 End-in of exercise 01 / Presentation + atelier FRI 20.10.2017 09:00 Photo shooting Models E01+ start individual project THU 26.10.2017 09:00 Lecture by Walter Angonese + the concept model + atelierFRI 27.10.2017 10.00 Lecture by Mario Monotti + atelier THU 02.11.2017 09:00 End-in of context individual model + atelier FRI 03.11.2017 09:00 Atelier + structure critics with Valeria Gozzi / Lorenzo Pini THU 09.11.2017 09:00 Atelier + structure critics with Valeria Gozzi / Lorenzo Pini FRI 10.11.2017 09:00 Excursus 01 “Abitare lo spazio” + atelier THU 16.11.2017 14:00 Mid-term criticFRI 17.11.2017 09:00 Mid-term critic THU 23.11.2017 09:00 Atelier + structure critics with Valeria Gozzi / Lorenzo PiniiFRI 24.11.2017 09:00 Atelier THU 30.11.2017 09:00 Atelier + detail critics FRI 01.12.2017 09:00 Atelier
THU 07.12.2017 09:00 Atelier + Model shooting
FRI 08.12.2017 09:00 Atelier + Model shooting MON 11.12.2017 09:00 PRINT WEEK / End-in of project’s pdf and prints FRI 15.12.2017 09:00 PRINT WEEK / End-in models SUN 17.12.2017 14:00 End - in of models + Atelier cleaning and exhibition set upMON 18.12.2017 09:00 Final critic TUE 19.12.2017 09:00 Final critic / Atelier dinner WEN 20.12.2017 09:00 VotesTHU 21.12.2017 09:00 Archiving / photo shooting modelsFRI 22.12.2017 18:00 Atelier cleaning
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