Coyoacan Market place, Felix Candela Hypars hyperboloids are a type of structure that have been used in pioneering since the 1960s. They are based on a type of lightweight engineering structure used to build in concrete.
Felix Candela
Until 1960
Scaffolding a temporary structure of wood or metal that supports the form boards and wet concrete
around 300 works built and 900 projects, mainly thin concrete shells
1950–51 - the Cosmic Ray Pavilion for Mexico's University City
Once the forms are placed, steel reinforcing is added and finally the workers cast the concrete, typically 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) thick
Born on 27 January 1910 in Madrid, Spain
Foundation Because Mexico City is on the site of what once was a lake, its soil, composed of lacustrine and volcanic sediments and organic matter, is soft and compressible, one of the worst on which to build.
Coyoacan market Date - 1955 Collaborators - Pedro Ramirez Vazquez Location - Colonla Coyoacan. The market is centrally located in Coyoacan just a few blocks from the main square. Coyoacan, once an independent colonial town on the outskirts of Mexico City, is now completely absorbed. Like many of Candela’s projects, the structural expression has been masked on the exterior. This market serves as the local market for the Coyoacan Community
1932
Geometry - A forest of hyperbolic paraboloid umbrellas in compression
1953 - the Church of La Virgen Milagrosa, Mexico City
1941 - 1942 Works as architect in Acapulco; founds his own construction firm
National champion skier
The major works and projects by Felix Candela 1940 Hotel e appartamenti ad Acapulco, in collaborazione con Bringas. 1950-1951 Pabellon de los Rayos Cosmicos, Citta del Messico. 1953-1957 Iglesia de la Medalla de la Virgen Milagrosa, Navarte. 1954-1955 Fabrica Celestino Fernandez, Colonia Vallejo. 1954-1955 Bolsa de Valores, Citta del Messico. 1955 Capilla de Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, Coyoacan.
Thin Shell
1934 National champion with his rugby team
A thin shell is defined as a shell with a thickness which is small compared to its other dimensions and in which deformations are not large compared to thickness. A primary difference between a shell structure and a plate structure is that, in the unstressed state, the shell structure has curvature as opposed to plates structures which are flat. Membrane action in a shell is primarily caused by in-plane forces (plane stress), though there may be secondary forces resulting from flexural deformations. Where a flat plate acts similar to a beam with bending and shear stresses, shells are analogous to a cable which resists loads through tensile stresses. Though the ideal thin shell must be capable of developing both tension and compression.
1939
1958 - Los Manantiales restaurant, Xochimilco
Arrives in Veracruz (Mexico) on June 13
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1955-1956 Quiosco de Mesica, Santa Fe. 1956 Capilla de San Antonio de las Huertas, Tacuba. 1956-1957 Club notturno La Jacaranda, Acapulco. 1956-1957 Restaurante Los Manantiales, Xochimilco 1957-1958 Capilla abierta en Lomas de Cuernavaca, Palmira. 1958-1959 Basilica de Guadalupe, Citta del Messico. 1958-1959 Iglesia de San Jose Obrero, Monterrey.
Hypar Although they look complicated, these struc to build-all of the strings used are pulled tight in straight lines. This means that you don't need to worry about how the curve gets formed-it is a natural result of tying all the straight lines
Until 1935 Studies natural sciences and architecture in Madrid
This sequence demonstrates how to build one: (1) lash the rectangular/diamond-shaped frame together, and prop 2 corners up with poles. (2) run sisal from one pole to the opposite pole, starting at one end and working to the other end, making sure the lines do not cross each other. Start with a round turn and two half hitches and end with a clove hitch or constrictor. (3) run a second set of lines between the other two poles. Once you have done this, you will be able to remove the props- but you will need guylines to hold the structure up. The sisal is actually holding the whole structure in shape. Because there are so many of them, none of them are under a lot of strain (which is why they are used to build in concreteyou can make the concrete VERY thin because the strain is spread out evenly).
1936 - 1939 Fights on the republican side of the Spanish Civil War, emprisoned in Perpignan (France)
1959 Capilla de San Vicente Paul, Coyoacan. 1959-1960 Capilla de Santa Monica, San Lorenzo di Xochimancas. 1959-1960 Planta embotelladora ditta Bacardi, Cuautitlan. 1962-1963 Iglesia Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Madrid, Spagna. 1965-1968 Palacio de Deportes per la XIX Olimpiade Citta del Messico. 1966 Parroquia del Senor del Campo Florido, Citta del Messico. 1994-2002 L'Oceanografic, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spagna.
1960 - Bacardi Rum Factory, Cuautitlán, State of Mexico