Who is Felix Candela? The 3 attributes associated with him are: Engineer, Builder and Structural Artist. Structural engineers have been artist though. Any structure in its own is an art form, the Eifel tower for example, certain towers, bridges are all other sorts of art. Hanz Isler and Felix Candela are the pioneer of the thin sell structural art movement. Who is Candela? He was a student of architecture in Madrid. While he was there, he went on his own to study shells in the school’s library. He got into so much; he got a scholarship to Germany. Unfortunately as soon as he was getting to enroll the war started and, he never got the chance to go to college. He got caught, sent to concentration camp and exiled to Mexico where he had a huge impact with his construction style. The design of Candela’s construction art is hyperbolic and parabolic shaped with 1 ½ inch thick. A shell could be thin but still very strong and the living monuments he had built and are still standing are proof of that. With the umbrella structure at the base he makes a group of workers and himself stand up on it to test it. Amazingly enough the calculations are always right because visiting Mexico we can see Folded umbrellas design on the subways, the redefine gothic at the Milagrosa church, the restaurant Los Manantiales in Xolocho where he created the saddle shapes from the straight line. The Chapel Lomas de Cuernavaca which is considered as the biggest saddle in the world. Last but not least is the Bacardi rum factory where Candela got the idea from the Saint Louis airport but refined the version. It’s a sustainable structure with minimal instrument, and energy saver as well which is perfect. Felix Candela is truly a great man and I couldn’t agree more about the three attributes: Engineer, Builder and Structural Artist.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Felix Candela
Who is Felix Candela? The 3 attributes associated with him are: Engineer, Builder and Structural Artist. Structural engineers have been artist though. Any structure in its own is an art form, the Eifel tower for example, certain towers, bridges are all other sorts of art. Hanz Isler and Felix Candela are the pioneer of the thin sell structural art movement. Who is Candela? He was a student of architecture in Madrid. While he was there, he went on his own to study shells in the school’s library. He got into so much; he got a scholarship to Germany. Unfortunately as soon as he was getting to enroll the war started and, he never got the chance to go to college. He got caught, sent to concentration camp and exiled to Mexico where he had a huge impact with his construction style. The design of Candela’s construction art is hyperbolic and parabolic shaped with 1 ½ inch thick. A shell could be thin but still very strong and the living monuments he had built and are still standing are proof of that. With the umbrella structure at the base he makes a group of workers and himself stand up on it to test it. Amazingly enough the calculations are always right because visiting Mexico we can see Folded umbrellas design on the subways, the redefine gothic at the Milagrosa church, the restaurant Los Manantiales in Xolocho where he created the saddle shapes from the straight line. The Chapel Lomas de Cuernavaca which is considered as the biggest saddle in the world. Last but not least is the Bacardi rum factory where Candela got the idea from the Saint Louis airport but refined the version. It’s a sustainable structure with minimal instrument, and energy saver as well which is perfect. Felix Candela is truly a great man and I couldn’t agree more about the three attributes: Engineer, Builder and Structural Artist.
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