Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2013
- Masons from the International Masonry Institute and students from MIT construct a half-scale vault inspired by the Boston Public Library, using traditional Guastavino methods. The model is on display at the National Building Museum as part of the exhibition Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces. Learn more at go.nbm.org/guastavino
I have some original catalogs from the Guastavino Company. Nice to see it being done. They were originally done with no form work. The Verizon building in NYC damaged on 9-11 is a marvel to look at the vaults over the sidewalks. All the domes start and finish with the same pieces in herringbone bond. The joints are all very tight or gauged and the work is perfection.
Arquitecto Catalá.
This is a beautiful presentation. Thank you!
Reasons for the technique not being used today; the technique is labor intensive and expensive and the tiles are expensive. At one point Guastavino company owned their own factory in order to minimize expenses. Guastivino himself built his own house out of wood and not tiles. The technique was utilized mainly in public buildings and in the homes of the rich due to the expense of the technique. The second reason that it is not used is that the technique can not be calculated easily for modern building codes. The proof is in the pudding; the buildings Guastavino Company helped to construct are, to a large extent, still standing. However RECREATING these arches would not pass modern building codes. The geometry is too complex for even computers to simulate their load bearing ability. Guastavino demonstrated their load bearing ability by adding weight to a sample structure; but he could not calculate it. The great strength in the system comes from not from the plaster of paris mortar that is on the edges, but the mortar that binds brick to brick in layers with the large flat surface area, and the resulting tension created by the arch pushing on the edges of adjacent bricks. Truly a thing of beauty. Modern architecture is rediscovering this technique and beginning to build in this manner. A recent advance is the use of concrete stabilized earth TILES. Not bricks, but tiles which can be created on site and used in a similar manner to the fired tiles that Guastavino Company used. This advanced technique helps solve the material cost problem, however the code problem and labor expense problem remain. A competent owner builder may be able to build in this manner at low cost if code allows. Or this technique may be used in an area with no building code and cheaper labor costs. All it takes is a press and %6 cement per brick. Formwork is unnecessary with this technique which is an additional cost savings in construction. As an aside; one architect, I forget his name, used Guastavino's tiled arch technique AS form work. He then added a layer of concrete on top as he didn't trust the technique.
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They have software now that can calculate the loading capacity I believe.
Deberían visitar su ciudad de nacimiento, Valencia,mi ciudad también,de joven fué a vivir a Barcelona,y después de separarse de su mujer a finales de 1800, viajó a Estados Unidos..
See Ángel Truño's "Construcción de bóvedas tabicadas" for great photos pre-1950 of masons erecting Guastavino vaulting for the Barcelona parish church of San Miguel de los Santos.
Arquitecto Catalá.
fantastico!
Arquitecto Catalá.
Rafael Guastavino un arquitecto catalán y universal, el hombre que diseño el Nueva York, que el turismo conoce.
Valenciano,nació en Valencia, España.
@@yolandaedo8466 , Catalá y no lo digo yo, ¿vale? Todos los videos estadounidenses de Guastavino nombran su origen en Catalunya.
En cambio acaban de hacer un reportaje en televisión española, estudió arquitectura en Cataluña, pero nacido en Valencia capital,al lado de la plaza de la virgen,en 1842.
Es posible que algunos estadounidenses hayan comentado erróneamente eso,pues los archivos de nacimiento existen...y no hay lugar a duda.
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Arquitecto Catalá.