RENZO PIANO ARTV 314- MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART DR. SAMI SHAKER PRESENTED BY: HADWA AHMED AYA ABDALLAH

OUTLINE

•  Biography •  His strategy( famous by) •  Styles

o Example for each style •  Three buildings

o Bercy 2 Shopping Center o California Academy of Sciences o Renovation and Expansion of the Morgan Library

Biography:

•  Renzo Piano is an Italian Architect who born in Genoa Italy. •  He studied from 1964 to 1969 at "The Milan Politecnico". •  His creation was discovered in 1969 when he designed the Italian pavilion in

Osaka. •  He made a partnership with Richard Rogers, who is an English architect. •  They did a great job in both countries England and Italy. The most one to

recognize is "the Pompidou Center in Paris". •  He also made another long partnership with " Peter Rice”. •  After that, he built his own workshop in 1981 and he started to get hundreds of

engineers from different places like New York, Paris, and Genoa. He got honored from of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

•  He also did many Art works like in "The Art Institute of Chicago", in which he done a very great and known piece of art that is called "Modern Wing".

•  It is consists of a "flying carpet", " sunscreen that hovers above the roof and a 620-foot (190 m) steel bridge connecting Millennium Park to a sculpture terrace that leads into a restaurant on the wing’s third floor” In all of his work, he had a motion between the materials, scale, design and form. He is creative in his pieces and he doesn’t follow tradition style.

Famous by:

•  He has a strong strategy that consists of some elements: he adopts the natural ventilation in large area of the building, careful choice of building materials, efficient use and reuse of water, and power generations.

•  Example: in one of his buildings (California Academy of Sciences) which is an ecological style, he used a new design of a roof to decrease the use of air-conditioning and to encourage the natural air by using efficient materials and the re-use of the water.

•  He also one of pioneer who adopted the ecological and sustainability concept in designing buildings.

Styles •  New modernism •  Late modernism •  Ecological and

sustainability •  Expressionism •  Functionalism •  Structuralism

•  High-tech •  Slick architecture •  Modified international style •  Brutalism •  Post modernism •  Traditionalism •  Organic Architecture

New modernism

II Vulcano Buono Nola, 1995/2007

•  Modern version of the traditional market place

Concept: It is an inspiration from the surrounding landscape. It takes the shape of interlocking and rotating solids with different slope. Structure: Reinforced concrete covered with turf to help the volcano to disappear into the landscape.

Late modernism

Aurora Place, Office and Residential Buildings Sydney, 1996/2000 Concept: The building has a double skin aiming to create lightness and transparency as it is also acting on thermoregulatory and conserving energy. Structure: layer of a special stratified glass and a white ceramic layer.

Ecological

Façade System for the Luna Rossa Team Base for the 32nd America's Cup Valencia, 2005/2006 Concept: according to the function of the building, he used the old sails as building materials. Structure: •  there is a simple rectilinear steel structure which is cladded by a series of sails

panels. •  the use of Kevlar and carbon fibers increase the tensile strength and the elasticity

of the sails, so they can resist the thermal dilatation and absorb load variations. •  He also cares about natural light, so he used transparent sails to filter the light

into the structure and creates a "Lantern effect at night".

Sustainability

Cy peombli pavilion Concept: •  he did the roof to eliminate the direct sun rays.

Faint and constant light coming from the ceiling, filtered by a system of superposed layers, helps to evoke the amplitude sought by Renzo.

Structure: •  The extensive use of stone and glass. Head of

canopy and head of the external wall

Expressionism

Kansai International Airport Terminal Osaka, 1988/1994 Concept: •  he designed an airport taking the wave shape and its curves

reproduce the image of glider resting on the island. to fit with the context of water (sea).

Structure: •  The roof has a series of arches. The structure followed the

wave shape as if it is inside the sea.

Functionalism

Ferrari Wind Tunnel Maranello, 1996/1998 Concept: •  He designed the Ferrai wind tunnel representing a machine

more than a building as it reflects the function of the building which is a space to test drag on racing cars.

Structure •  steel

Structuralism

Early Works Genoa, 1964/1974

Concept: Renzo piano was keen to study about the themes of lightness, flexibility, the structure –function relationship and how it is easy to be constructed. These themes include reinforced polyester space frames, pre-stressed steel and reinforced-polyester structure

High-Tech

Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, 1971-1977 Style: High Tech, functionalism, and artistic Structure: revolutionary and versatile spaces for contemporary art, music, cinema, theater. There are different colors on the faced as it is obtained a large uncluttered area. Concept: building is exposing the materials very clearly.

Slick architecture

Genoa Subway Stations Genoa, 1983/2003 Style: •  from exterior: Slick Architecture •  From interior: is exposed structure. Concept: Each station has designed according to its unique topographic context, the points of access, component parts, the plate forms and the sign systems were kept consistence to establish a recognizable architectural identity. Structure: It is an elevated transparent cute

Modified international style

Aluminum Research Institute Novara, 1985/1987 Concept: The main aim of this project is to study the multifunctional facades that could be mass produced. Thus, this building prototype is made all from aluminum. Structure: Aluminum and glass cladding

Brutalism

Broad Contemporary Art Museum (Lacma Expansion – Phase I) Los Angeles, 2003/2008

Concept: •  The concept of this building is to fuse into cohesive scheme at the

scattered buildings that composed of The campus at the same time create to the visitors a new exhibition spaces and strong visual identity.

Structure : •  The pavilion features a new style which is the saw tooth roof

reminiscent of factory buildings. A light fabric scrims adorns the façade which gives the building the feeing of lightness. It's clad from stone which is covered by saw tooth roof to provide natural light from the north.

Post modernism

•  Central St. Giles Court Mixed-use Development •  London, 2002/2010 Concept: The complex is composed of many complex volumes with different heights, orientation and color and they are fragmented and reduced in scale to match the surrounding buildings. Structure: The use ceramic on the façade is intentional as it creates different shades, colors to respond to the other surrounding one. There is a six-meter full height glass facade to provide complete transparency. Materials: •  glass, steel, and ceramic are the most used materials.

Traditionalism

Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center Noumea, 1991/1998 Style: Traditionalism, sustainable Concept: he inspired by the Kanak culture as he designed 10 pavilions by the same form of the traditional kanak huts, with different heights from 20 -28 meters. The building also sustainable as it has an inclined plan to save sun energy. Structure: iroko wood, combined with steel, glass:

Organic Architecture

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Punta Nave, 1989/1991

Concept : •  perched on the slopes of a hill above the sea. Structure: •  It is composed of a system of glass terraces

gradually sloping towards the sea. It is a typical recall of the greenhouses design like the Liguria coastline. Zenithal light also plays a major role as the photosensitive skylights regulate light intensity pervading the interior spaces with natural light.

Three buildings(1)

1.Bercy 2 Shopping Center Charenton le Pont, 1987/1990 •  Style: Slick Atchitecture

Three buildings (2)

2. California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, 2000/2008 Style: Ecological architecture

Three buildings (3)

Renovation and Expansion of the Morgan Library New York, 2000/2006

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