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...that chapel was constructed says something about Zumthor's particular intensity. It was built by the farmer who commissioned it, working with neighbors. First they erected a vertical formwork of spruce branches and trunks. Concrete was then poured in layers, one per day for 24 days to produce a smooth exterior but a ribbed surface inside. Then the wood formwork was set afire, which scorched and roughened the interior concrete. The result is a building that's also a metaphor for the fierce yearnings of the soul...
...something more robust and sculptural. His spartan, lightweight architecture turned rustic, with heavy walls of brick and fieldstone and splashes of bright color. He discovered the potential of reinforced concrete and made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos. For the state capital of Chandigarh in India...
Nervi main economic advantage of preparation, Nervi explained, is the elimination of the wood formwork previously to reinforced concrete. Further construction with prefabricated element is faster, Nervi noted. They can immediately mass-produced while the nations and vertical supports are and if accompanied "with exactness in layout and workman- can be quickly and easily erected site...
Finally, Nervi argued that by doing with the restictions of the traditional formwork, prefabrication permits richness of form, delicate refine- and the possibility of creating rhythms produced by the repeti- of equal elements." Static law defines basic structural form, but that the architect is free to express tastes...
...constructing the spiral stairs that Nervi first hindered by the rigidity which an interior timber formwork imposed on reinforced concrete. The next twelve years witnessed Nervi's various modifications of the skeleton of reinforced concrete and "in retrospect' strikingly continuous progression toward ferro-cement...
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