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    Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete. Some key achievements include patenting aircraft hangars and vaults made of prefabricated concrete sections. He believed architecture and engineering were interconnected. Notable projects he designed include the Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome, which featured a shallow ribbed dome composed of over 1,600 prefabricated concrete panels, and the Turin Exhibition Building, whose barrel vault was constructed using thin corrugated precast concrete units. Nervi's structures were praised for their structural expressionism, strength, and graceful aesthetics.

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    Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete. Some key achievements include patenting aircraft hangars and vaults made of prefabricated concrete sections. He believed architecture and engineering were interconnected. Notable projects he designed include the Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome, which featured a shallow ribbed dome composed of over 1,600 prefabricated concrete panels, and the Turin Exhibition Building, whose barrel vault was constructed using thin corrugated precast concrete units. Nervi's structures were praised for their structural expressionism, strength, and graceful aesthetics.

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    Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete. Some key achievements include patenting aircraft hangars and vaults made of prefabricated concrete sections. He believed architecture and engineering were interconnected. Notable projects he designed include the Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome, which featured a shallow ribbed dome composed of over 1,600 prefabricated concrete panels, and the Turin Exhibition Building, whose barrel vault was constructed using thin corrugated precast concrete units. Nervi's structures were praised for their structural expressionism, strength, and graceful aesthetics.

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    Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete. Some key achievements include patenting aircraft hangars and vaults made of prefabricated concrete sections. He believed architecture and engineering were interconnected. Notable projects he designed include the Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome, which featured a shallow ribbed dome composed of over 1,600 prefabricated concrete panels, and the Turin Exhibition Building, whose barrel vault was constructed using thin corrugated precast concrete units. Nervi's structures were praised for their structural expressionism, strength, and graceful aesthetics.

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    Some key takeaways are that Nervi pioneered the use of reinforced concrete, invented ferrocement, and emphasized strength, simplicity and grace in his structural designs.

    Nervi improved structural strength through the use of ribbing, vaulting, and prefabricated concrete elements. This allowed him to eliminate columns and achieve great structural feats with simple geometries.

    Some notable Nervi projects include the Turin Exhibition Building, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the Olympic Stadium in Rome, and the George Washington Bridge Bus Station in New York City.

    Pier Luigi Nervi

    Sondrio, Lombardy 1891-1979

    Pier Luigi Nervi ( b.1891 - d.1979)


    Biography
    1913 Graduates from the engineering department at the University of Bologna 1920 Founds construction firm in Rome

    1939 Patent on construction of aircraft hangers from prefabricated reinforced concrete sections
    1943 Patent on vaults of 300 meter span constructed from prefabricated reinforced concrete sections 1946 Invents 'Ferrocement'

    Nervi believed that architecture and engineering were two connected parts of a whole. He borrowed from both Roman & Renaissance architecture to create aesthetically pleasing structures, yet he applied structural aspects such as ribbing and vaulting. He did a lot of experimentation with R.C.C. to create structures of strength, simplicity and grace . He became internationally renowned for his invention of ferrocement
    Turin Exhibition Building

    Principles:
    Improvement of structural strength and elimination of columns achieved through ribbing and vaulting.

    Use of simple geometry .


    Use of sophisticated prefabrication.

    Turin Exhibition Building

    Projects Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence (1931) Exhibition Building, in Turin, Italy, (1949). UNESCO headquarters in Paris (1950) (collaborating with Marcel Breuer and others) Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome, Italy (1958) Olympic Stadium in Rome (1960) Palazzo del Lavoro, in Turin (1961) Paper Mill in Mantua, Italy, (1962) George Washington Bridge Bus Station in New York City (1963) Tour de la Bourse in Montreal (1964) Field House at Dartmouth College Thompson Ice Arena at Dartmouth College Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, California (1967) (collaborating with Pietro Belluschi) Good Hope Centre in Cape Town (1976) by Studio Nervi, Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, VA (1973)

    Palazzetto dello Sport Rome (1958)

    Palazzetto dello Sport Rome


    (Little sports palace)

    Built : 1956-1957 Location :Rome ,Italy Function : Stadium / Arena Part of : Olympic summer games 1960 Structural type : Ribbed dome

    Ribbon windows

    Ribbed dome Prefabricated panels

    Y - columns

    SECTION Built for the 1960 Olympics, the palazzetto is a modest sports stadium in an innovative concrete dome. PLAN

    Prefabricated polygonal panels Steel reinforcement

    Its shallow calotte shell is composed of 1628 polygonal prefabricated parts which form a textured diamond pattern from the inside,created by the webs in which the connecting steel reinforcements were laid.

    The progression of the ribs is organic in effect and it does not follow the actual line of force .

    F
    F F

    Therefore the development of the rim of the dome was particularly important.The unequal load which is getting transferred on the rim of the dome may cause substantial static problems. Therefore Nervi found a new solution.

    Triangular concrete elements transfer the load to sloping piers angled exact direction of the force. Concrete surface of the roof is continued to form an undulating border thus the roof skin is drawn optically lower .

    Exterior view showing the Y column View through the ribbon window of the Y column

    Load transfer

    Force diagram

    Saint Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco


    Built : 1971
    Location : San Francisco , California Function : Cathedral Structural type : Reinforced concrete Style : Structural Expressionist Modern

    When this cathedral was built ,the design of this ultra-modern structure was compared to the agitating element in a washing machine, because of the roof profile.

    The roof is of anticlastic type

    The building may look a bit odd externally but The interiors are sleek, and grand. It seats 2,400 people in a semicircle around the altar. The central dome soars 15 stories into the air and is supported by buttresses incorporated into the four corners of the building

    35 m

    The corner walls beyond the buttresses are floor-to-ceiling plate glass.

    Exhibition Building, Turin

    Palazzo per esposizioni salone (1947)


    Turin Exhibition Hall

    Built : 1947 - 1949

    Location :Turin, Italy


    Function : Fair or trade building

    Structural type : Barrel shell or vault ribbed


    Area
    240 ft 309 ft.

    corrugated pre-cast units


    Windows are arranged in the corrugated units

    in situ concrete abutments

    The vaulted construction of the hall consists of prefabricated elements which spring from in situ concrete abutments

    The prefabricated units are of ferro-cement

    Corrugated precast parts


    length approx - 15 ft width approx - 8 ft 3 inches. thickness is less than 2 inches. This small thickness is achieved only by the increased rigidity through the corrugation and the transverse webs at either end. The individual units are joined by in situ concrete.

    Corrugated prefabricated parts

    Thank you !
    Amruta Bhagwat
    Sanam Mulani

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