By - Silvi Jhangra

Umrao Singh Mahawar

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

born on July 28, 1951 in a town of benimamet, near Valencia,

Spain.

From the age of 8, he also attended the arts and crafts

school,

At the age 13 he was an exchange student in France and

traveled to study in Switzerland.

He earned a degree in architecture and took a post-graduate

course in urbanism.

Being attracted by mathematics, calatrava decided to pursue

post-graduate studies in civil engineering, so he was enrolled

in the federal institute of technology in Zurich, Switzerland in

1975.

he received his doctor rate in 1979, during that period he met

and married his wife, who was a law student in Zurich.

Santiago calatrava is a man of his time; an architect of public

space, who has total conscience of the political and social

function as well as the aesthetics of it. He is a „monumental‟

architect. This comes out of the result exactly because he knows

what public space and modernism means.

-evangelos venizelos

Minister of culture

Calatrava is not just an architect, he is an engineer and an artist a

homo universalize of the 21st

century.

-dimitrios pantermalis

professor of classical archaeology

A r c h I t e c t

A r t I s t

E n g I n e e r

PHILOSOPHY

The works of gothic

Works of antony Gaudi

human figure and nature‟s

creativity

Experimentation with materials

and their properties

San Sebastian - Bodegas Ysios

opera de Tenerife

blends impressive visual style and the strict

rules of engineering

Symbolic AND recognizable the world over for

the sense of movement captured in a

stationary object.

long sweeping lines, stark white materials

and a flawless use of glass and light.

Had a definite vision of inside and outside,

the concave and convex, of how we face the

specific world

STYLES

H S B , T U R N I N G

TO R S O ,

M A L M O ,

S W E D E N

HSB Turning Torso is one of the tallest

residential buildings in Europe and holds

apartments, offices and meeting

facilities.

The vision of HSB Turning Torso

is based on a sculpture called

Twisting Torso by Santiago

Calatrava himself.

Inspiration from the human body

in a twisting motion.

C O N C E P T U A L S TA G E S

B U I L D I N G FA C T S

•190 meters high

•Consists of nine cubes with five floors

each.

•Together with intermediate floors a

total of 54 floors.

•Each floor has 400m² of available space.

•147 apartments from cube three to nine.

•meeting facilities on the two top floors.

•Each floor consists of a square part around the core

and a triangular part which is supported by an external

steel structure.

•The entire construction twists 90 degrees on its way

up with each floor tilting by 1.6 degrees

CUBE 7

CUBE 5

CUBE 3

CUBE 9

Plan of a typical

floor

LOUNGES

AT FLOOR 43 & 49

GYM , SAUNA , JACUZZI

43RD

FLOOR

CONFERENCE &

PARTY FACILITIES

7TH

FLOOR

Plan of

connecting

floor

R OTAT I O N O F

F LO O R S

Forms for the floors were rotated

approx. 1.6 degrees for each floor in

order to create the characteristic

twist of the building.

FA C A D E

•facade is a glass and aluminum

construction

•2,800 panels and 2,250 windows

•Follow the twist of the building, the

windows are leaning either inwards or

outwards by 0 to 7 degrees.

O U T E R S T E E L

S U P O RT A N D S P I N E

• The steel support is a welded

construction with a very thorough paint

treatment for optimal protection against

corrosion

•The outer steel support consists of a

steel column and 20 horizontal and 18

diagonal ”steel cigars”

LIFTS

•3 lifts service the residential part of

the building and HSB Turning Torso

Meetings

•Two separate lifts service the

offices :

ensures high capacity and

minimum waiting even during

“rush hour” and in the

instances when a lift is closed

for maintenance.

APARTMENTS

S H E E T I N G & F O U N D A T I O N S

Foundation: built directly on the

limestone bedrock.

Profiled steel plates, forming the

foundation shaft, were driven 15

m. into the ground and a further

3m into the limestone bedrock

Concrete beams, poured at

regular intervals on the inside of

the sheeting to stabilize the

steel lining against the pressure

of the soil outside

Concrete construction was

poured onto the bedrock, 30

meters in diameter and 7 meters

thick

PANAROMIC VIEW FROM THE 3RD CUBE:

1ST APARTMENT LEVEL

C O M M E R C I A L S PA C E

• The total commercial space

is approximately 4,000 m² in

the lower two cubes i.e. 10

floors.

•The commercial area has its

own lifts and all conceivable

comforts in heating, cooling

and IT systems.

H S B T u r n i n g To r s o M e e t i n g s

• On the two top floors, 53rd and 54th

.

•attractive and inspiring meeting

facilities.

SOME OF CALATRAVAS MOST

FAMOUSE STRUCTURE ALL

AROUND THE WORLD.

Milwaukee

arts museum

LYON

AIRPORT

STATION,

FRANCE

BARCELONA

COMUNICATION

TOWER,

BARCELONA,

SPAIN

AUDITORIO

DE

TENERIFE,

SPAIN

L’Hemisferic, Valencia Planetarium, IMEX Cinema

80 SOUTH STREET TOWER, NEW YORK CITY

SOME OF CALATRAVA’S MOST

FAMOUSE BRIDGES ALL

AROUND EUROPE

PONT D’ ORLEANS,

FRANCE

ALAMILLO

BRIDGE

,SEVILLE

SPAIN

SUNDIAL BRIDGE

AT TURTLE BAY,

REDDING,

CALIFORNIA

Puente de la

Mujer, Buenos

Aires,

Argentina

Conclusion

A P P R A I S A L

•The elemental and lyrical forms of Calatrava‟s architecture,

known and loved across the globe.

•Santiago Calatrava exemplifies sculptural expression and

engineering through architecture. Calatrava‟s work is like

music: well orchestrated

•Although his buildings were known for their aesthetics,

they never compromised on the grounds of functionality

•built energy efficient structures

•The fact that much of his work is centred around

water which adds a further dimension to his work.

C R I T I C I S M

•Often criticized for impracticality

•the mechanical instability of the

structure and the excessive weight of

the bridge

•Economy

•The trainstation Gare do Oriente in

Lisbon is known for being very

uncomfortable, especially with wind

and rainy weather.

TRANSTATION GARE

DO ORIENTE,

LISBON, PORTUGAL

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