The Rhetoric of Pier Luigi Nervi

• Technical inventions and building site economies: Sidero-cemento, a reinforced concrete – Hyperstatic trusses for roofs and bridges – Reinforced masonry made out of cement-brick blocks – Saw-tooth roofs and skeletons for factories – Invisible cantilevered structures over a void
• The Stadio Berta and the nature of form: The daring grandstand roof – The first stage of work – Liquid mud and the stadium building site – Bare or clad structure – Construction of the uncovered stands – Construction defects and inspection of the grandstand roof – The Torre di Maratona and the Monumento alla Bandiera, obelisks to fascism – Spiral staircases in the shape of fasces – Curved stands with entrances, or archaic concrete – Building site of the completion – A work of brutal engineering – Cracks in the stadium and Brunelleschi’s dome
• Reticular structures for the regime: Modern shapes and romanità – Designs for aircraft hangars with an expressive nature – The Orvieto hangars or the power of hyperstatic fasces – Underground anti-aircraft tanks
• Designs for the Rome Esposizione Universale, shells and autarky: The bar and the spiral – Autarkic concrete – Empathy of the shell structure – Precast concrete blocks for the Arco dell’Impero
• Prefabrication for military and industrial purposes: The Via della Magliana laboratory and experimental models – Hangars and prefabrication – Virtuoso trusses for autarkic silos – Hulls in reinforced concrete with a geodesic structure – A technique based on absolute style
• Towards slender construction: The invention of ferro-cementitious felt – Waved slabs in ferro-cementitious felt: the shed in Via della Magliana – Scienza o Arte del Costruire? An apologia for concrete – Prefabrication tests on ferro-cementate – The ornamental ribbed shell at Torre in Pietra – A perforated waved shell at the Fiera di Milano
• Ferrocement and large shell roofs: Structures of Salone B in Turin, or of the maximum moment of inertia – Patent and designs for waved or curved cement structures – The prefabricated house prototype and the Tortona building site – Salone C for Torino Esposizioni and the patent for “elementi-forma”
• Strength through form and structural prefabrication: Arcangeli’s floor and Nervi’s formwork – Sliding formwork in ferrocement for ribbed floors – Advent of the variable cross-section pillar – Terminological issues raised by the new formwork – Principles for a theory of structure – Prefabrication for industrial buildings – Penstocks and canal bridges
• The Unesco Headquarters in Paris: perfect béton brut: Structural icons – Guidelines for exposed concrete, brut and bouchardé – Development of the formwork – Tests on the building site – The pilotis of the Secretariat – The waved walls of the Bâtiment des Conférences – Nature of form of the canopies – The pilotis of Bâtiment III
• The Nervi system: Bone-like skeletons – Roof shapes, from domes to cross vaults – A sunburst structure: the Palazzetto dello Sport
• Controlled brutalism: the Palazzo dello Sport: Study and construction of variable cross-section pillars – Floors with isostatic ribs – Prefabrication in ferrocement – Finishing works
• The mirage of the matter’s essence: Clad or exposed concrete – The Stadio Flaminio in Rome – The aesthetics of exposed concrete
• Monumental structural architecture: The Turin colossus: Palazzo del Lavoro – The reinforced concrete order – The Burgo paper mill in Mantua and the Fiat water tower in Turin – Expressions of structural architecture – International spread of the Nervi style
• The last works by Studio Nervi: The Aula per le Udienze in the Vatican, the apotheosis of Baroque – Structures for skyscrapers – Variable cross-section pilotis and decorative ribs – The quadripod of the Italian Embassy in Brazil

Editeur : EPFL Press English Imprint

Auteur(s) : Roberto Gargiani, Alberto Bologna

Collection : Treatise on Concrete

Publication : 23 juin 2016

Edition : 1^ère édition

Support(s) : Livre papier

Nombre de pages Livre papier : 432

Format (en mm) Livre papier : 170 x 240

Poids (en grammes) : 1240

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre papier : 9782940222957