THE BEGINNINGS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE

Maria BOSTENARU DAN

Overview

Language for reinforced concrete Essays Practice

Technical side Hennebique system Intervention and conservation

Language

Language for reinforced concrete Review of Kenneth Frampton’s Tectonics with view to

reinforced concrete Essays

Torino Henri van de Velde Hungary

István Medgyaszay Practice

Erich Mendelsohn - Einsteinturm Béla Lajta – NépSzinház Street Joze Plecnik – Holy Spirit Church

Kenneth Frampton‘s tectonics Space / constructional-structural models Kernform – Kunstform

Difference timber – masonry (tensile-compressive) Age-old schism Perret has reconciled (Choisy)

Ontological/representational – dressing (Semper), textile

Importance of the material Heidegger

architect Otto Wagner

Postsparkasse, Vienna (1904-06)

architect József Vágo

Arkaden-bazár, Budapest (1909)

architect Auguste Perret

Block of flats on Rue Franklin, Paris (1902-1904)

Architect Auguste Perret

Photo M Bostenaru 2010

Theatre Champs Elysees

Architect Erich Mendelsohn

Photo M Kauffmann 2002

Einstein Tower, Potsdam (1919-21)

architect Béla Lajta

Block of flats on Népszinház utca (1911)

Medgyaszay

architect István Medgyaszay

Photo: M. Bostenaru, 2006

Theatre, Veszprém (1908)

architect István Medgyaszay

Photo: M. Bostenaru, 2011

Reinforced concrete perforated details at the Lacko Dezsö Museum, Veszprém (1912)

architect István Medgyaszay

Photo: M. Bostenaru, 2011

Timber architecture details, church, Balatonalmádi (1931)

Projects by István Medgyaszay, details suitable for reinforced concrete [Der Architekt]

Projects by István Medgyaszay, details suitable for reinforced concrete [Der Architekt]

Projects by István Medgyaszay, details suitable for reinforced concrete [Der Architekt]

Ede Magyar

Reok Palace, Szeged

Skeleton

From 3D shell to storey-wise Massivbau

Architect Joze Plecnik

Photo: M. Bostenaru, 2005

Holy Spirit church, Vienna (1910-13)

Technical side

Germany

Iron concrete

Hennebique system

Italy (Porcheddu) Germany (Züblin) Britain (Mouchel) Portugal (Moreira de Sá & Malevez ) Romania

Bucharest Oradea

Hungary Outside Europe

Cairo

Hennebique system in Italy

Porcheddu Genova

Seismic behaviour

Hennebique system in Romania Virginia Haret, the first woman architect

Athenee Palace, Bucharest Moskovits-Miksa Palace, Oradea

Architect Virginia Haret

Photo M. Bostenaru 2011

Block of flats on Frumoasa street (1922)

Architect Virginia Haret

Block of flats on Frumoasa street (1922)

Virginia Haret

Water tower, Bucharest (1927)

Industrial buildings

Riga, Latvia Portugal Italy

Before change

Architect Daniel Renard (1910-12)

Engineer George Constantinescu

Athenee Palace, Bucharest

After change

Athenee Palace, Bucharest

After change

Athenee Palace, Bucharest

After change

Athenee Palace, Bucharest

Kálmán Rimanoczy junior

Moskovits-Miksa Palace, Oradea (1904-05)

Hennebique system in Hungary Béla Lajta archive

Népszinház street (previous) Rózsavölgyi

Should have RC lower floors and brick upper floors

Photo M. Bostenaru

Internet archive for plans: http://www.lajtaarchiv.hu/

Rozsavolgyi house, Budapest (1911-12) and Loos house, Vienna (1910-11)

Hennebique system outside Europe Baron Palace, Cairo

Study of the University of Vienna (Vittoria Capresi)

Precast tiles imported from Belgium

Architect Alexandre Marcel

Wikimedia commons

Baron Palace, Cairo (1905)

Intervention and conservation Studies on material characteristics

Genova: Stefano Podestà Minho: Paulo Lourenco

Functional conversion Seismic performance

Wikimedia commons (William Domenichini 2005)

Via XX Settembre, Genova

Photo: M Bostenaru, 2012

Via XX Settembre Genova

Wikipedia CC licence

Grand Hotel Miramare, Genova (1906-1908)

Photo: M. Bostenaru 2012

Grand Hotel Miramare

Wikipedia CC licence

Grand Hotel Miramare, Genova (1906-1908)

Wikimedia commons (Jensens, 2008)

Silos di Genova (1900)

Photo M. Bostenaru 2012

Silo Genova

Wikimedia commons, Twice25 e Rinina25 2006

Mercato orientale, Genova

Photo M Bostenaru 2012

Mercato orientale, Genova

Photo M Bostenaru 2012

Mercato orientale, Genova

Photo: M. Bostenaru, 2012

Palazzo della Nuova Borsa, Genova (1912)

Photo: M. Bostenaru, 2012

Biblioteca universitaria (former Hotel Colombia), Genova (1921-26)

Wikimedia commons

FIAT Lingotto, Torino (1916-23)

Wikimedia commons Traveller100 (2008)

Conversion by Renzo Piano

FIAT Lingotto, Torino

Interwar reinforced concrete skeleton

Conclusions

There is little research in early reinforced concrete

Need for criteria which structures have to be preserved due to their structure

Multidisciplinary approach between philosophy, architecture and technical sciences

Reinforced concrete called for ist own language It solved the contradiction between timber and

the heavy compression materials

Thank you!