"The issue number 25 of FAmagazine is dedicated to Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who died last year at the age of one-hundred-and-five years old. Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1905 and has represented, perhaps more than anyone else, the emblem of Brazil in the world going, in terms of years, through a succession of eras and historical moments". The FATA Pianezza, despite not being among the most well known buildings Niemeyer, is a definite example of an ideal relationship between structural intellect and spatial result. The building is of great interest, providing unprecedented interpretations respect to the whole work of the Brazilian master. "Marzia Marandola, instead, faces a less known project: the headquarters of FATA in Pianezza, near Turin. The building could be considered as some kind of unusual static exercise, able to to show the possibility of architecture to be, as Niemeyer himself liked to repeat, “varied, different, unpredictable.” In this Italian case, Riccardo Morandi is the “technical director” of the operation, working with structural calculations of the building he made possible what Niemeyer imagined."
"Marzia Marandola invece affronta un progetto meno noto, la sede della FATA di Pianezza, nei pressi di Torino. L’edificio può essere considerato una sorta di esercizio statico non usuale in grado di mostrare la possibilità dell’architettura di essere, come ama ripetere lo stesso Niemeyer, “varia, differente, imprevedibile”. In questo caso italiano è Riccardo Morandi il “regista tecnico” dell’operazione che, lavorando ai calcoli strutturali dell’edificio, rende possibile ciò che Niemeyer immagina. In questo caso specifico è interessante notare come il cemento armato, utilizzato come sempre dal maestro brasiliano alla stregua di un in ingrediente plastico e plasmabile, porti l’architettura ad essere momento di dimostrazione della tecnica come possibilità collettiva del costruire."
Niemeyer a Torino. La "Fata" a Pianezza/Niemeyer in Turin the Fata building in Pianezza / Marandola, Marzia. - In: FESTIVAL DELL'ARCHITETTURA MAGAZINE. - ISSN 2039-0491. - ELETTRONICO. - 25:V(2014), pp. 46-51. [10.12838]
Niemeyer a Torino. La "Fata" a Pianezza/Niemeyer in Turin the Fata building in Pianezza
MARANDOLA, MARZIA
2014
Abstract
"The issue number 25 of FAmagazine is dedicated to Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who died last year at the age of one-hundred-and-five years old. Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1905 and has represented, perhaps more than anyone else, the emblem of Brazil in the world going, in terms of years, through a succession of eras and historical moments". The FATA Pianezza, despite not being among the most well known buildings Niemeyer, is a definite example of an ideal relationship between structural intellect and spatial result. The building is of great interest, providing unprecedented interpretations respect to the whole work of the Brazilian master. "Marzia Marandola, instead, faces a less known project: the headquarters of FATA in Pianezza, near Turin. The building could be considered as some kind of unusual static exercise, able to to show the possibility of architecture to be, as Niemeyer himself liked to repeat, “varied, different, unpredictable.” In this Italian case, Riccardo Morandi is the “technical director” of the operation, working with structural calculations of the building he made possible what Niemeyer imagined."I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
