The mask as a constructive architectural device

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https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v10i19.421

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mask, wall-mask, compositional device, architecture and city

Abstract

The case analyzed is a recent unpublished work carried out by the architect Nicolas Campodonico in the city of Rosario. It is possible to connect his architectural thought with a typology of contribution to the discipline that should be considered fruit of the empirical dimension of his work. The procedures and the syntactic method of this architecture are based on a figure rigorously constructed over time and works in which the possible theoretical dimension must be traced and reconstructed afterwards. The first part of the essay, after a detailed description of the work considered, addresses this dimension. From the definition of the fundamental compositive element as wall-mask conjectures are made to relate the instrumental value of the device to some suggestive ideas recorded in recent history regarding the theme of the mask in architecture. The second part deals with the technical description of some empirically verifiable results and effects.

The work of Campodonico -an architect with an intense and important background- deserves to be studied and highlighted. His procedures are intuitive, they seem to be gathering thoughts about reality to convey them through the form in a natural and spontaneous way.

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Gustavo Adolfo Carabajal, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Arquitecto, Facultad de Arquitectura Planeamiento y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Laurea en Arquitectura y Dottorato di Ricerca in Composizione Architettonica, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia-Italia. Diplomatura de Estudios Avanzados en Entornos Virtuales de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje (EVEA), Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales UNR. Profesor Titular Ordinario, Ciclo Básico, Área Teoría y Técnica del Proyecto Arquitectónico, asignaturas: Introducción a la Arquitectura, Análisis Proyectual 1 y Análisis Proyectual 2, FAPyD-UNR desde 2011. Profesor Titular Ordinario, Ciclo Superior, Área Teoría y Técnica del Proyecto Arquitectónico, asignaturas: Proyecto Arquitectónico I, II y Proyecto Final de Carrera, FAPyD-UNR desde 2020.

Lara Andrea Pendino, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Arquitecta, Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Jefe de trabajos prácticos ordinario, Ciclo Básico, Área Teoría y Técnica del Proyecto Arquitectónico, asignaturas: Introducción a la Arquitectura, Análisis Proyectual 1 y Análisis Proyectual 2, FAPyD-UNR desde 2019. Auxiliar de primera interino, Ciclo Superior, Área Teoría y Técnica del Proyecto Arquitectónico, asignaturas: Proyecto Arquitectónico I, II y Proyecto Final de Carrera, FAPyD-UNR desde 2023.

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Published

2023-12-11

How to Cite

Carabajal, G. A., & Pendino, L. A. (2023). The mask as a constructive architectural device. A&P Continuidad, 10(19). https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v10i19.421

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Vol. 10 No. 19 (2023): RECENT ARCHITECTURES IN LATIN AMERICA. HISTORY, CRITICISM, PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION

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Essays

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