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Renzo Piano was bom into a family of builders in Genoa, Italy in
1937. His grandfather, his father, four uncles and brother were all
contractors and Renzo Piano admits, Renzo Piano should have been
one too, but instead chose architecture. Renzo Piano was studying
at Milan Poitechnic Architecture School. During his studies Renzo
Piano was working under the design quidance of Franco Albini. After
his graduation in 1964 Renzo Piano worked in his father's company
and during the time 1965-1970 Renzo Piano worked in offices of
Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia and ZS. Makowski in London. Other
important influence Renzo Piano acknowledges, was Pierluigi Nervi.
While still studying in Milan, Renzo Piano married a girt Renzo
Piano had known from school days in Genoa, Magda Arduino. They have
three children- 2 sons and the third child, daughter Lia, now 25,
is pursuing a career in architecture.
Renzo Piano is an absolute master of art, master of light and
lightness. Renzo is a maestro architect. He understands well about
construction, structures and the scale of pieces. Renzo Piano was
born in Genoa, Milan, in 14th of September 1937, where he also had
Building Workshop there. Renzo Piano was bom into a family of
builders in Genoa, Italy in 1937. His grandfather, his father, four
uncles and brother were all contractors and Renzo Piano admits,
Renzo Piano should have been one too, but instead chose
architecture. Renzo Piano was studying at Milan Politechnic
Architecture School. Piano also an educator. He was educated and
subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. Renzo Piano gain
his experience from working with other maestros. From 1965 to 1970
Renzo worked with Louis Kahn and Makowsky. He worked together with
Richard Rogers from 1971 to 1977, with their most famous joint
project the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1977). Renzo also had
a long collaboration with the extraordinary engineer Peter Rice.
Renzo Piano had a lot of impressive works. Hes elegant in person,
but also his structures are very elegant. Renzos masterpieces arent
pieces of abstract sculpture, they were very humanistic. He is the
designer of IBM travelling pavilion, Kansai International Airport,
Osaka (1988). Renzo also was responsible for the masterplan for the
reconstruction of the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, and Shard London
Bridge skyscraper (also known as the London Bridge Tower or Shard
of glass) in London. Renzo Piano also achieve several honors,
regarding to his recent works. Renzo won the Pritzker Architecture
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Happold (who would later found Buro Happold), and Irish
structural engineer Peter Rice. The project was awarded to this
team in an architectural design competition, whose results were
announced in 1971. Reporting on Rogers' winning the Pritzker Prize
in 2007, the New York Times noted that the design of the Centre
"turned the architecture world upside down" and that "Mr. Rogers
earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion
of the 1977 Pompidou Centre, with its exposed skeleton of brightly
colored tubes for mechanical systems. The Pritzker jury said the
Pompidou revolutionized museums, transforming what had once been
elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural
exchange, woven into the heart of the city. All of the functional
structural elements of the building are colour-coded: green pipes
are plumbing, blue ducts are for climate control, electrical wires
are encased in yellow, and circulation elements and devices for
safety (e.g., fire extinguishers) are red.
Centre Georges PompidouCentre Georges Pompidou (constructed
19711977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex
in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les
Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the
style of high-tech architecture. The Centre was designed by the
Italian architect Renzo Piano, the British architect couple Richard
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Elevation.
View at night
View from north
View from southwest
Interior
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The IBM Pavilion conceptIn this project the concept of nature
was of utmost importance: Renzo Piano though of a travelling
exhibition on informatics as one to be easily set up everywhere in
existing parks using as pavilion a translucent that could readily
be disassembled and transported like a circus from town to town.
The IBM Pavilion's real precedents were the greenhouse as developed
in the nineteenth centry and the contemporaneous and demountable
exhibition pavilion, Crystal Palace. As with these, its
transparency and purity of form were animated by the repition of
identical precision components. In this case though, many of the
components were of sculptured biomophics form, and some of these
craved in wood. This suggested a particularly intimate relationship
between the pavilion and the foliage it nestled in, which
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provided a backdrop and some sun-shading to the exhibition.
Arranging for the computers to be seen against a natural backdrop
accorded with a basic intention of the exhibition, which was to
present computers to young people as an entirely natural part of
daily life. 1) the whole structure was composed of 32 repetitive
half
arches together with a raised floor and just sited on the site
with no foundations 2) all arches were 3-hinge three dimensional
truss arches 3) each arch were constructed by transparent
polycarbonate pyramids with shapely wooden struts and metal joints
4) polycarbonate pyramids act as a structural webs for the
triangular truss and claddings for the pavilion.
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CladdingCladdings used in this pavilion are very interesting;
not just in terms of materials, but also structurally. The material
chosen for the claddings is polycarbonate. This is the best plastic
material at the moment. Its conspicuous characteristic being its
excellent transparent which allows the penetration of light and
getting to the natural surrounding. Structurally, these claddings
also act as a web.
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