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 CEMETERY MODENA ITALY
Architect: ALDO ROSSI Year of completion: 1971 Location: Modena, Italy Type: Cemetery Complex Style: Neo Rationalism
Parallel running Communal Grave ossuary
Entrance Gateway
Red cubic ossuary, Funeral Structure
Wide green areas
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aldo_Rossi,_Modena_ Cemetery,_Model,_c.1983.jpg.png
EXTERIORS
• Unadorned exteriors • Static Volume • Uniformity in openings • Discomforting Space
Source: http://www.archinomy.com/case-studies/1922/aldo-rossi
The Bounding Wall of the Complex
Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/laserdisk/0242/24216.JPG
The interior
RED CUBE STRUCTURE Rhythmic articulation of openings interrupted by the ossuary cube
Ossuary, funeral structure Source: http://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/arc318l-final-buildings/deck/1661624
Square Pillars, Square windows, Symmetrical stripped architecture Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/m odarch/byarch/display00242.html
INTERIORS
“House of Dead” • No Floor Slabs • No Roof • Windows and Doors
Shell of Openings
Source: http://www.archdaily.com/95400/ad-classicssan-cataldo-cemetery-aldo-rossi/
RIB-LIKE OSSUARIES
Series of Parallel running Ossuaries representing Bone Structure in humans Central vertebral axis Uniformity of negative spaces
Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/m odarch/byarch/display00242.html
Increase in height as length decreases
Communal Grave Conical Grave at the End of the Complex
Shape representing the industrial Landscape beyond the site
Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/m odarch/byarch/display00242.html
TEATRO DEL MONDO According to Rossi theatres were “ places where architecture ends and world of imagination begins Architect: ALDO ROSSI Construction year: 1979 Location: Venice, Italy Type: temporary theatre Style: modern
“OBSERVATION IS THE BEST ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL” Rossi's repeated use of familiar architectural elements create a feeling of a place vaguely remembered.
http://www.archidose.org/Feb99/rossi2.jpg
PLANS
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
ROOF PLAN
Section and elevations
Structure Tubular steel frame Zinc cladded roof
Upper galleries
Central stage
http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/images/0/0a/I magen_virtual_8.jpg
Wooden cladding
Bonnefanten museum ,Maastricht Architect: ALDO ROSSI Construction year: 1992 Location: Maastricht, Netherlands Type: Museum Style: Post modern
http://www.holland.com/upload_mm/0/d/2/6398_fullimage_maastricht_bonnefant en_museum_560x350.jpg
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."
PLAN Axis of the building
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/EsEglcgTOqU/UNedBTo3QwI/AAAAAAAAAGw/So455PqkQjw/s640/bonnefanten.jpg
http://www.cultuurnetwerk.nl/producten_en_diensten/bronnenbu ndels/2000/2000_97c.jpg
The design of the building is symmetrical and forms an E-shape
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.
Faรงade treatment
Red brick cladding
Zinc cladding Use of square windows
Building features Circular skylight
Central staircase with 4 story wall height http://www.bonnefanten. nl/content/upload/crop/cr op_14561_colw_358.jpg
http://www.marc-kocher.com/img/aldo_rossi_225x277.jpg
SCHOLASTIC BUILDING SOHO, NEW YORK
Architect: ALDO ROSSI Year of completion: 2001 Location: Soho- a neighbourhood to Ney York Style: Post Modern
Green House atrium Penthouses
Resource centre, Living Room, Offices,
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 Source: http://phaidonatlas.com/node/204196
A Building Fits in by Standing Out TO FIT IN
• Uniformity in Height and Scale
Source: http://phaidonatlas.com/node/204196
SCHOLASTIC BUILDING
LITTLE SINGER BUILDING
• COLUMNAR FACADE • SAME COLOURS USED • DEEPLY RECESSED CURTAIN WALLS • CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE USED-
“KIT OF PARTS”
Source: http://huntersandgatherersathome.blogspot.in/2010_0 7_01_archive.html
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Building
TO STAND OUT
Source: http://www.nycarchitecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
SCHOLASTIC BUILDING LITTLE SINGER BUILDING • MATERIAL USED STEEL, GLASS FRONT FACADE
TERRACOTA,CAST IRON, BRICK
• CYLINDRICAL COLUMNS
• MONUMENTAL REAR FACADE RED ARCHES 5 TIERS OF TWO STORIES REAR FACADE Source: http://clapforbacon.blogspot.in/2011/08/castiron-landmarks-in-soho.html
Source: http://www.nycarchitecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
SCHOLASTIC BUILDING
LITTLE SINGER BUILDING • BOLTED HORIZONTAL STEEL BEAMS • DETAILING ROOF CORNICE • FAÇADE DETAIL
Trabeated façade constructed with steel lintels
Source: http://clapforbacon.blogspot.in/2011/08/castiron-landmarks-in-soho.html
Extremely ornate roof cornice with iron brackets
Source: http://www.nycarchitecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm
INTERIORS PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE CAFÉ INSIDE THE BUILDING Modelled on Palladio’s 16th Century theatre Teatro Olimpico (16th century Palladian Theatre)
Use of Steel inside as outside
Source: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/scholasticauditorium-and-greenhouse-with-rooftop-terrace-new-york2?select=stnt0b09cRQUcKtG0vIOCQ#RZ0E_zLsUeIzuaU0KrGGw
Source: http://www.libertychurchnyc.com/lowermanhattan-church-services-new-york-city/
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."