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| summary Presentation The sloped roof: from natural shelter to imposed form • The Sloped Roof Joan Lluís Zamora • Evolution on the tiled roof in housing blocks Jaume Avellaneda • Manacor Hospital Ángel Fernández Alba and Fernando Cruz Pedro Moleón • Cabaní House in Castelar de N'Hug, Barcelona Eduard Bru Carlos Quintáns • Museums of Modern Art and Architecture, Stockholm Rafael Moneo Duccio Malagamba • Products dossier Josechu Mateu |
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Joan Lluís Zamora
The Sloped Roof The following article attributes the typological diversity of the sloped roof to climate and natural resources of each place. Joan Lluís Zamora, professor of Construction at the Architecture School of Vallés (Barcelona), offers a geographical run-through of the history of the sloped roof, sprinkling it with traditional examples and enumerating the basic requirements behind the designs for this type of covering. With a critical approach that points out problematic aspects as much as it forwards functional advantages, the author concludes his essay by describing some of the most typical construction solutions. |
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Jaume Avellaneda Evolution on the tiled roof in housing blocks The tile is one of the most traditional roofing solutions in our latitudes. Though seemingly unaltered through history, it has gradually incorporated some of the industrial innovations inherent in the 'most technologically advanced' elements of construction. A chaired professor of Construction at the Architecture School of Vallés, Barcelona, Jaume Avellaneda discusses the changes that have taken place in the nature and requirements of the tiled roof. |
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Pedro Moleón
Manacor Hospital Ángel Fernández Alba and Fernando Cruz A versatile roof with the capacity to differentiate and individualize each spatial unit of an extensive program, such interpretation of the roof characterizes the project for the new health facility of Manacor. With the same expressive freedom manifest in his projects, Ángel Fernández Alba deploys sloped planes, sawtooth skylights, groin vaults and skylights of lock seamed copped or zinc sheets, a wide repertoire through which the internal order of the building's functional organisation, whose main articulating element is the prism containing the confinement rooms, becomes patent in the exterior. |
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Carlos Quintáns
Cabaní House in Castelar de N'Hug, Barcelona Eduard Bru The irregular perimeter and steep slope of a lot situated in front of a magnificent mountain landscape were what stimulated the architect to design this unique single family house in a town close to the Catalan Pyrenees. Subjected to local building regulations imposing the use of stonework and Arab tiles, the Cabaní House challenges the rigidity of stone constructions, presenting itself as a flexible volume that arches in plan to capture the finest views; this gives rise to a special diagonal arrangement of the roof tiles. |
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Duccio Malagamba Museums of Modern Art and Architecture, Stockholm Rafael Moneo In a place where "fragmentation and minimal intervention are the most characteristic features" (R. Moneo), the silhouette of the roofs of the Moderna Museet evokes an architecture that is "discontinuous and broken, like the city of Stockholm". The delicate plasterboard skin shielding the art works, the intermediate shell of concrete that marks the clear-cut contours of the roof, and an external costing of zinc crowned by simple 'boxes of light' together materialize a constructional conception based on the superposition and continuity of skin layers, thanks to which the new Museum of Modern Art and Architecture is the Nordic capital's latest urban icon. |
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| Products Dossier (60 index cards) | |
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| Systems Panels and boards Roof structures -wood -space frames -light gauge galvanized steel sections Roofing materials -concrete and fiber-reinforced concrete -ceramic -stone -metal -steel -aluminium -copper -zinc -miscellaneous Auxiliary elements and materials |
