Moore’s list affirms that a material simultaneously strong and light, durable, sustainable, and fire-resistant, can scarcely be considered anything short of miraculous.
In a list that incorporates examples from Classical times to the present, Moore establishes concrete’s unique ability to adapt to different times, styles, applications, and treatments.Įxamples by Le Corbusier, Álvaro Siza, Lina Bo Bardi, and Marcel Breuer demonstrate that concrete is anything but workaday or utilitarian. Los Manantiales Restaurant by Félix Candela, located in Mexico City. Through examples spanning three continents, Moore unites old standbys with unexpected wonders, all of which show the varied possibilities inherent in mixing water, aggregate, and cement. Some renowned structures include the Pavilion of Cosmic Rays at UNAM, the Chapel Lomas de Cuernavaca, Los Manantiales Restaurant, and the Palace of Sports for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. “Concrete has the ability to be primitive and technological, massive and levitating, to combine the properties of steel with those of mud,” says Rowan Moore in his list of The 10 best concrete buildings created for The Guardian. The structure is made from four hyperbolic paraboloids intersecting each-other, creating this. The structure is very similar to Candela's the Los Manantiales Restaurant, built in Mexico City in the 1950s. This structure was designed quite close to his passing in 1997. In structural terms, they are efficient because they resist compression efforts and absorb at specific points on their surface, especially near the supports - small moments of flexion. The underwater restaurant by Felix Candela at Oceanographic Valencia. The shells arise from the association between concrete and steel and are structures whose continuous curved surfaces have a minimal thickness thus they are widely used in roofs of large spans without intermediate supports. The importance of the structural thought that culminates in the constructed object is then, taken by the relationship between form and structure. Thus, you can't conceive a form without automatically conceiving a structure and vice versa". Every form has a structure, and every structure has a form. "You can't imagine a form that doesn't need a structure or a structure that doesn't have a form. However, if we bend it, the sheet achieves a new structural quality. If we tried to stiffen it from its primary state, it couldn't support its own weight.
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