The paper intends to investigate a group of works designed by the architects Vittorio Gregotti, Lodovico Meneghetti and Giotto Stoppino at the beginning of their professional career, between the second half of the 1950s and the 1960s, characterized by the use of prefabricated infill panels made of concrete and grit. If artificial stone was used (as a counterpoint to the exposed brick walls) in the small houses in Cameri (Novara, 1954-56) to make sills, architraves, and a few other prefabricated elements, with a view to evoking a tradition strongly rooted in northern Italy, in the houses built in Novara on the site of the old ice factory (1957-60), in the project for the competition for the Municipal Theater in Alessandria (1959) and in the villa designed for the Mira brothers in Romagnano Sesia (1960-64) prefabrication is extended to all the infill walls of the buildings, looking to the work of Perret and Wright and facing with a still artisanal type of building production. In these works, the relationship between structure and envelope, the modular organization of the project, the rationalization of the building phases and the expressive possibilities linked to the use of a material like concrete, become the themes of a research which the three architects continued to pursue in the 1960s, in a changed context, in the Milanese houses for the 'Un Tetto' cooperative. Starting from bibliographic sources and archival investigations (CASVA, Centro di Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive di Milano), and also thanks to some oral testimonies, the contribution aims to reconstruct this history in its technical specificities and declinations, placing it in its cultural and productive framework.
Prefab concrete envelopes between the fifties and sixties. The Italian experience of Gregotti, Meneghetti and Stoppino / Barelli, Maria Luisa. - ELETTRONICO. - (2024), pp. 276-283. (Intervento presentato al convegno 8th International Congress on Construction History (8ICCH) tenutosi a Zürich (CH) nel 24-28 June 2024).
Prefab concrete envelopes between the fifties and sixties. The Italian experience of Gregotti, Meneghetti and Stoppino
Barelli, Maria Luisa
2024
Abstract
The paper intends to investigate a group of works designed by the architects Vittorio Gregotti, Lodovico Meneghetti and Giotto Stoppino at the beginning of their professional career, between the second half of the 1950s and the 1960s, characterized by the use of prefabricated infill panels made of concrete and grit. If artificial stone was used (as a counterpoint to the exposed brick walls) in the small houses in Cameri (Novara, 1954-56) to make sills, architraves, and a few other prefabricated elements, with a view to evoking a tradition strongly rooted in northern Italy, in the houses built in Novara on the site of the old ice factory (1957-60), in the project for the competition for the Municipal Theater in Alessandria (1959) and in the villa designed for the Mira brothers in Romagnano Sesia (1960-64) prefabrication is extended to all the infill walls of the buildings, looking to the work of Perret and Wright and facing with a still artisanal type of building production. In these works, the relationship between structure and envelope, the modular organization of the project, the rationalization of the building phases and the expressive possibilities linked to the use of a material like concrete, become the themes of a research which the three architects continued to pursue in the 1960s, in a changed context, in the Milanese houses for the 'Un Tetto' cooperative. Starting from bibliographic sources and archival investigations (CASVA, Centro di Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive di Milano), and also thanks to some oral testimonies, the contribution aims to reconstruct this history in its technical specificities and declinations, placing it in its cultural and productive framework.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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