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ALDO ROSSI (1931-1937)Italian Architect, Theorist, Product Designer
‘Caught between the classical world and the industrial world’.
“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”
“The Architecture of the City” Aldo Rossi
SAN CATALDO CEMETERYMODENA ITALY
Architect: ALDO ROSSIYear of completion: 1971Location: Modena, ItalyType: Cemetery ComplexStyle: Neo Rationalism
Entrance Gateway Red cubic ossuary,
Funeral Structure
Communal GraveParallel running ossuary
Wide green areas
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aldo_Rossi,_Modena_Cemetery,_Model,_c.1983.jpg.png
The Bounding Wall of the Complex
Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/laserdisk/0242/24216.JPG The interior
EXTERIORS• Unadorned exteriors• Static Volume• Uniformity in
openings• Discomforting Space
Source: http://www.archinomy.com/case-studies/1922/aldo-rossi
RED CUBE STRUCTURE
Source: http://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/arc-318l-final-buildings/deck/1661624
Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/modarch/byarch/display00242.html
Ossuary, funeral structure
Rhythmic articulation of openings interrupted by the ossuary cube
Square Pillars, Square windows, Symmetrical stripped architecture
INTERIORS
• No Floor Slabs
• No Roof
• Windows and Doors
Source: http://www.archdaily.com/95400/ad-classics-san-cataldo-cemetery-aldo-rossi/
“House of Dead”
Shell of Openings
RIB-LIKE OSSUARIES
Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/modarch/byarch/display00242.html
Increase in height as length decreases
Series of Parallel running Ossuaries representing Bone Structure in humans
Central vertebral axis
Uniformity of negative spaces
Communal Grave
Conical Grave at the End of the Complex
Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/modarch/byarch/display00242.html
Shape representing the industrial Landscape beyond
the site
TEATRO DEL MONDO
Architect: ALDO ROSSIConstruction year: 1979Location: Venice, ItalyType: temporary theatreStyle: modern
According to Rossi theatres were “ places where architecture ends and world of imagination begins
http://www.archidose.org/Feb99/rossi2.jpg
Rossi's repeated use of familiar architectural elements create a feeling of a place vaguely remembered.
“OBSERVATION IS THE BEST ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL”
PLANS
FIRST FLOOR PLANGROUND FLOOR PLAN
ROOF PLAN
Section and elevations
Structure
http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/images/0/0a/Imagen_virtual_8.jpg
Central stage
Upper galleries
Zinc cladded roof
Tubular steel frame
Wooden cladding
Bonnefanten museum ,Maastricht
http://www.holland.com/upload_mm/0/d/2/6398_fullimage_maastricht_bonnefanten_museum_560x350.jpg
Architect: ALDO ROSSIConstruction year: 1992Location: Maastricht,
NetherlandsType: MuseumStyle: Post modern
Is the museum a collection of mementoes of life or is it itself a part of our lives? My architecture leaves an open verdict in this regard."
The design of the building is symmetrical and forms an E-shape
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EsEglcgTOqU/UNedBTo3QwI/AAAAAAAAAGw/So455PqkQjw/s640/bonnefanten.jpg
Axis of the building
http://www.cultuurnetwerk.nl/producten_en_diensten/bronnenbundels/2000/2000_97c.jpg
PLAN
Entrance
Rossi was a great product designer. Connection between his objects and architecture were obvious. His timeless designs are based on simple geometrics, primal forms. His Architecture was based on form.
Façade treatment
Zinc claddingRed brick claddingUse of square windows
Building features
http://www.bonnefanten.nl/content/upload/crop/crop_14561_colw_358.jpg
Central staircase with 4 story wall height
http://www.marc-kocher.com/img/aldo_rossi_225x277.jpg
Circular skylight
SCHOLASTIC BUILDINGSOHO, NEW YORK
Architect: ALDO ROSSIYear of completion: 2001Location: Soho- a neighbourhood to Ney YorkStyle: Post Modern
6,700-square-foot store with the company's books, magazines, CD-ROM's, videos, games, puzzles, toys and art supplies.
Basement 299-seat auditorium
Penthouses
Green House atrium
Resource centre, Living Room, Offices,
Source: http://phaidonatlas.com/node/204196
A Building Fits in by Standing Out
Source: http://phaidonatlas.com/node/204196
TO FIT IN
• Uniformity in Height and Scale
Source: http://huntersandgatherersathome.blogspot.in/2010_07_01_archive.html Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Building
SCHOLASTIC BUILDING LITTLE SINGER BUILDING
• COLUMNAR FACADE
• SAME COLOURS USED
• DEEPLY RECESSED CURTAIN WALLS
• CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE USED- “KIT OF PARTS”
TO STAND OUT
Source: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
• MATERIAL USED
SCHOLASTIC BUILDINGLITTLE SINGER BUILDING
Source: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
Source: http://clapforbacon.blogspot.in/2011/08/cast-iron-landmarks-in-soho.html
• CYLINDRICAL COLUMNS
STEEL, GLASS TERRACOTA,CAST IRON, BRICK
FRONT FACADE
REAR FACADE
• MONUMENTAL REAR FACADE
RED ARCHES5 TIERS OF TWO STORIES
• BOLTED HORIZONTAL STEEL BEAMS
• DETAILING ROOF CORNICE
Source: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
SCHOLASTIC BUILDING LITTLE SINGER BUILDING
Source: http://clapforbacon.blogspot.in/2011/08/cast-iron-landmarks-in-soho.html
Trabeated façade constructed with steel lintels
Extremely ornate roof cornice with iron brackets
• FAÇADE DETAIL
INTERIORS
CAFÉ INSIDE THE BUILDING
Source: http://www.libertychurchnyc.com/lower-manhattan-church-services-new-york-city/
Use of Steel inside as outside
PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE
Modelled on Palladio’s 16th Century theatre
Source: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/scholastic-auditorium-and-greenhouse-with-rooftop-terrace-new-york-2?select=stnt0b09cRQUcKtG0vIOCQ#RZ0E_zLsUeIzuaU0Kr-GGw
Teatro Olimpico (16th century Palladian Theatre)
arch critic Paul Goldberger, for one, has described the building as one that "will teach generations of architects the proper way to respond to historic contexts."