Parallel Session 17, Conservation and preservation of 20th century historic concrete shells (WG 5)
Masafumi Tanaka & Sumika Inoue from Musashino University, Japan, present their work on HP shell structures.
Felix Candela is the world’s first engineer who has built a structure using the Hyperbolic Paraboloid (HP) Shell. In particular, he has built many shell structures made of reinforced concrete mainly in Mexico. The main feature of the HP shell structure designed by Candela is that it not only uses the HP shell alone, but also creates a work by combining multiple HP shells. In this presentation, the focus is on the morphological features of Candela’s architectural works, i.e. the shape of the opening and the HP shell structure.
Watch their presentation on "Morphological analysis of architectural work by F. Candela: the form & aperture shape of the HP shell structure" from the Spatial Structures 2020/21 Conference.
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