2. SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
KRATI AGRAWAL
B.ARCH IV YR

3. Introduction

4. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
born on July 28, 1951 in a town of benimamet, near Valencia, Spain.
From the age of 8, he also attended the arts and crafts school,
At the age 13 he was an exchange student in France and traveled to study in Switzerland.
He earned a degree in architecture and took a post-graduate course in urbanism.
Being attracted by mathematics, calatrava decided to pursue post-graduate studies in civil engineering, so he was enrolled in the federal institute of technology in Zurich, Switzerland in 1975.
he received his doctor rate in 1979, during that period he met and married his wife, who was a law student in Zurich.

5. A r c h I t e c t A r t I s t E n g I n e e r
Santiago calatrava is a man of his time; an architect of public space, who has total conscience of the political and social function as well as the aesthetics of it. He is a ‘monumental’ architect. This comes out of the result exactly because he knows what public space and modernism means.
-evangelos venizelos Minister of culture
Calatrava is not just an architect, he is an engineer and an artist a homo universalize of the 21st century dimitrios pantermalis
professor of classical archaeology

6. PHILOSOPHY

7. INSPIRATIONS The works of gothic Works of antony Gaudi
human figure and nature’s creativity
Experimentation with materials and their properties
opera de Tenerife
San Sebastian - Bodegas Ysios

8. STYLES
blends impressive visual style and the strict rules of engineering
Symbolic AND recognizable the world over for the sense of movement captureD in a stationary object.
long sweeping lines, stark white materials and a flawless use of glass and light.
Had a definite vision of inside and outside, the concave and convex, of how we face the specific world

9. HSB,
TURNING TORSO,
MALMO,SWEDEN

10. HSB Turning Torso is one of the tallest residential buildings in Europe and holds apartments, offices and meeting facilities.
The vision of HSB Turning Torso is based on a sculpture called Twisting Torso by Santiago Calatrava himself.
Inspiration from the human body in a twisting motion.

11. CONCEPTUAL STAGES

13. BUILDING FACTS 190 metres high Consists of nine cubes with five floors
each.
Together with intermediate floors a
total of 54 floors.
Each floor has 400m² of available space.
147 apartments from cube three to nine.
meeting facilities on the two top floors.
Each floor consists of a square part around the core and a triangular part which is supported by an external steel structure.
The entire construction twists 90 degrees on its way up with each floor tilting by 1.6 degrees

14. KEY DATES MAY 2003 Ground breaking 14th Feb 2001
Construction started June 2001
Casting of foundation March 2002
Foundations complete August 2002
Completion date November 2005
JAN 2004

15. CUBE 5
CUBE 9
CUBE 3
CUBE 7

16. RECEPTION

17. Plan of a typical floor

19. Plan of connecting floor

20. LOUNGES
AT FLOOR &

21. GYM , SAUNA , JACUZZI
43RD FLOOR

22. CONFERENCE & PARTY FACILITIES
7TH FLOOR

23. FACADE ROTATION OF FLOORS facade is a glass and aluminum construction
2,800 panels and 2,250 windows
Follow the twist of the building, the windows are leaning either inwards or outwards by 0 to 7 degrees.
ROTATION OF FLOORS
Forms for the floors were rotated approx. 1.6 degrees for each floor in order to create the characteristic twist of the building.

24. OUTER STEEL SUPORT AND SPINE
The steel support is a welded construction with a very thorough paint treatment for optimal protection against corrosion.
The outer steel support consists of a steel column and 20 horizontal and 18 diagonal ”steel cigars”

25. LIFTS
3 lifts service the residential part of the building and HSB Turning Torso Meetings
Two separate lifts service the offices :
ensures high capacity and minimum waiting even during “rush hour” and in the instances when a lift is closed for maintenance.

26. APARTMENTS

27. APARTMENTS

28. SHEETING & FOUNDATIONS
Foundation: built directly on the limestone bedrock.
Profiled steel plates, forming the foundation shaft, were driven 15 m. into the ground and a further 3m into the limestone bedrock
Concrete beams, poured at regular intervals on the inside of the sheeting to stabilize the steel lining against the pressure of the soil outside
Concrete construction was poured onto the bedrock, 30 meters in diameter and 7 meters thick

29. CLIMBING FORMS AND BEAMS
each cube were made with so-called self-compacting concrete.
Because of its flow capacity, this type of concrete does not need vibrating.

30. PANAROMIC VIEW FROM THE 3RD CUBE:
1ST APARTMENT LEVEL

42. COMMERCIAL SPACE
The total commercial space is approximately 4,000 m² in the lower two cubes i.e. 10 floors.
The commercial area has its own lifts and all conceivable comforts in heating, cooling and IT systems.

43. HSB Turning Torso Meetings
On the two top floors, 53rd and 54th.
attractive and inspiring meeting facilities.

44. SOME OF CALATRAVAS MOST FAMOUSE STRUCTURE ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

45. Milwaukee arts museum

46. L’Hemisferic, Valencia Planetarium, IMEX Cinema

47. LYON AIRPORT STATION, FRANCE

48. BARCELONA COMUNICATION TOWER, BARCELONA, SPAIN

49. 80 SOUTH STREET TOWER, NEW YORK CITY

50. AUDITORIO DE TENERIFE, SPAIN

51. SOME OF CALATRAVA’S MOST FAMOUSE BRIDGES ALL AROUND EUROPE

52. PONT D’ ORLEANS, FRANCE

53. ALAMILLO BRIDGE ,SEVILLE SPAIN

54. SUNDIAL BRIDGE AT TURTLE BAY, REDDING, CALIFORNIA

55. Puente de la Mujer, Buenos Aires, Argentina

56. CHORDS BRIDGE, JERUSELAM

57. conclusion

58. APPRAISAL
The elemental and lyrical forms of Calatrava’s architecture, known and loved across the globe.
Santiago Calatrava exemplifies sculptural expression and engineering through architecture. Calatrava’s work is like music: well orchestrated
Although his buildings were known for their aesthetics,
they never compromised on the grounds of functionality
built energy efficient structures
The fact that much of his work is centred around
water which adds a further dimension to his work.

59. CRITICISM Often criticized for impracticality
the mechanical instability of the structure and the excessive weight of the bridge
Economy
The trainstation Gare do Oriente in Lisbon is known for being very uncomfortable, especially with wind and rainy weather.
TRANSTATION GARE DO ORIENTE, LISBON, PORTUGAL

60. Thank you