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City and water. The geometrized context in the Venice Hospital of Le Corbusier.

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  • Enrique Delgado Cámara Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Vol. 22 No. 32 (2017): Concepto - Contexto
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5427.2017.46145

Abstract

An intention to link with its urban and natural environment is the starting point of the Hospital project, integrating the lagoon's aquatic context as a substantial element. The use of geometry as an analysis device allows to open the project to a new conceptual understanding. This will lead to comprehend how the geometry of water movement is used in the Hospital generating a geometric mat-building of entwined swastikas. The horizontally stratified construction according to the level of the lagoon originates a lower space of intense relation with the water, which is altered by light reverberation used as an architectural manipulation mechanism linked to the geometry of water. This article is part of the research work developed for the Doctoral Thesis entitled "The geometry of water. Architectural mechanisms of space manipulation", where the Venice Hospital is included as one of the chapters and one of the main study cases analyzed.

Keywords:

Le Corbusier, Venice, water, geometry, reverberation

Author Biography

Enrique Delgado Cámara, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Arquitecto (1990) y Doctor Arquitecto (2015) por la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos (ETSAM-UPM) e Investigador integrado en el Grupo de investigación de Crítica Arquitectónica ARKRIT (ETSAM-UPM).

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Delgado Cámara, E. (2017). City and water. The geometrized context in the Venice Hospital of Le Corbusier. Revista De Arquitectura, 22(32), Pág. 32–41. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5427.2017.46145
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