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Santiago Calatrava: Krati Agrawal B.Arch Iv Yr
Santiago Calatrava: Krati Agrawal B.Arch Iv Yr
KRATI AGRAWAL
B.ARCH IV YR
INTRODUCTION
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 received his doctor rate in 1979, during that period he met and married
his wife, who was a law student in Zurich.
ArchItect
ArtIst
EngIneer
• 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
KEY DATES
JAN 2004
CUBE 5
CUBE 9
CUBE 3
CUBE 7
RECEPTION
Plan of a typical floor
Plan of connecting
floor
LOUNGES
AT FLOOR 43 & 49
GYM , SAUNA ,
JACUZZI
43RD FLOOR
CONFERENCE &
PARTY
FACILITIES
7TH FLOOR
FA C A D E
•facade is a glass and aluminum construction
R O TAT I O N O F
FLOORS
Forms for the floors were rotated approx. 1.6
degrees for each floor in order to create the
characteristic twist of the building.
OUTER STEEL SUPORT
AND SPINE
•The steel support is a welded construction with a very
thorough paint treatment for optimal protection against
corrosion.
•Economy