‘El Palmeral’ apartments in Aguadulce by Fernando Cassinello

Abstract 'El Palmeral' apartments (1968-1970) located in Aguadulce, a tourist town in Almería, in the Andalusian region of southern Spain are the best work by the architect Fernando Cassinello (Almería, 1928-Madrid, 1975). The urban planning regulations of the development, which required t...

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Autores principales: García-Sánchez,José-Francisco, Centellas-Soler,Miguel
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Publicado: Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2020
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-915X20200001000192020-05-26‘El Palmeral’ apartments in Aguadulce by Fernando CassinelloGarcía-Sánchez,José-FranciscoCentellas-Soler,Miguel concrete structure floor tiles, tourist housing, Almería Abstract 'El Palmeral' apartments (1968-1970) located in Aguadulce, a tourist town in Almería, in the Andalusian region of southern Spain are the best work by the architect Fernando Cassinello (Almería, 1928-Madrid, 1975). The urban planning regulations of the development, which required the ground floor to be diaphanous, made possible the original solution of the three great reduced arches with the upper structure of porticos on each block. Hence, the apartments rest on six large arches, producing an image similar to that of an inhabited bridge. Fernando Cassinello, in his dual capacity as professor at the School of Architecture in Madrid and researcher at the Eduardo Torroja Institute of Construction Sciences (IETcc), always positioned himself in the median that unites Architecture and Engineering. In some of his works, an infrastructural derivative can be appreciated. Therein lays the interest of his architectural work. He was able to introduce singular structural aspects, even in private housing projects, both single family and collective. This could be in the way his buildings were related to the ground, or the way he dealt with stairs, which have so often been excluded from the built volume, and which served functions beyond facilitating vertical movement.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEscuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileRevista de la construcción v.19 n.1 20202020-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-915X2020000100019en10.7764/rdlc.19.1.19-29
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topic concrete
structure
floor tiles, tourist housing, Almería
spellingShingle concrete
structure
floor tiles, tourist housing, Almería
García-Sánchez,José-Francisco
Centellas-Soler,Miguel
‘El Palmeral’ apartments in Aguadulce by Fernando Cassinello
description Abstract 'El Palmeral' apartments (1968-1970) located in Aguadulce, a tourist town in Almería, in the Andalusian region of southern Spain are the best work by the architect Fernando Cassinello (Almería, 1928-Madrid, 1975). The urban planning regulations of the development, which required the ground floor to be diaphanous, made possible the original solution of the three great reduced arches with the upper structure of porticos on each block. Hence, the apartments rest on six large arches, producing an image similar to that of an inhabited bridge. Fernando Cassinello, in his dual capacity as professor at the School of Architecture in Madrid and researcher at the Eduardo Torroja Institute of Construction Sciences (IETcc), always positioned himself in the median that unites Architecture and Engineering. In some of his works, an infrastructural derivative can be appreciated. Therein lays the interest of his architectural work. He was able to introduce singular structural aspects, even in private housing projects, both single family and collective. This could be in the way his buildings were related to the ground, or the way he dealt with stairs, which have so often been excluded from the built volume, and which served functions beyond facilitating vertical movement.
author García-Sánchez,José-Francisco
Centellas-Soler,Miguel
author_facet García-Sánchez,José-Francisco
Centellas-Soler,Miguel
author_sort García-Sánchez,José-Francisco
title ‘El Palmeral’ apartments in Aguadulce by Fernando Cassinello
title_short ‘El Palmeral’ apartments in Aguadulce by Fernando Cassinello
title_full ‘El Palmeral’ apartments in Aguadulce by Fernando Cassinello
title_fullStr ‘El Palmeral’ apartments in Aguadulce by Fernando Cassinello
title_full_unstemmed ‘El Palmeral’ apartments in Aguadulce by Fernando Cassinello
title_sort ‘el palmeral’ apartments in aguadulce by fernando cassinello
publisher Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
publishDate 2020
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-915X2020000100019
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