BASILICA PALLADIANA

ANDREA PALLADIO ; VICENZA, ITALIA

HISTORY OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. 2018 — WANG KAI

MARIA ELENA BELLANI & LA URA RAMALLO AZNAR & ARIAN SHAHVERDI
 INDEX

• LOCATION

• ARCHITECT
• WHO WAS HE?
• STY LE

• THE BASILICA TRHOUGH TIME

• XII CENTURY
• 1496
• 1546
• 1547
• 1549- 1614
• 1612 - 1950

• THE BASILICA STY LE

• SERLIAN
• ORDERS & STRUCTURE

• THE BASILICA: PHOTOS

 LOCATION
VICENZA, ITALY

GLOBAL V IEW CITY OF V ICENZA BASILICA PALLADIANA

 ARCHITECT
ANDREA PALLADIO (1508 – 1580)

WHO WAS HE? STYLE

· Italian architect. · Renaissance architecture

· Main influences: Greek, roman, · Elementary units combination

primarily by Vitruvius. · Supremacy of the environment
· Venetian Republic; 23 buildings · Proportions
located just in Vicenza
· Continuos research
· Huge impact in the · Form follows function
Renaissance architecture
· Plan and elevation
· Self-representative style
· Function, structure, aesthetics
THE FOUR BOOKS OF ARCHITECTURE, ANDREA PALLADIO
ANDREA PALLADIO
 THE BASILICA THROUGH TIME

IL PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE ( X V century) BASILICA PALLADIANA ( XVII century)

 THE BASILICA THROUGH TIME
XII CENTURY

Pre-existing medieval public buildings

 THE BASILICA THROUGH TIME
1496, APRIL, 20

The south-west corner of the lodges that were built by Tommaso Formenton collapsed.

TOMMASO FORMENTON
 THE BASILICA THROUGH TIME
1546, MARCH 5th

The Congress of the Hundred accepted one of the projects to rebuild the logias.

SEBASTIANO SERLIO (1475 - 1554 )

ANDREA PALLADIO (1508 – 1580)

STCULPTURE OF GIOV ANI DI GIACOMO DA PORLEZZA

(1485 – 1555)
THE CHOSEN PROJECT
 THE BASILICA THROUGH TIME
1547, MARCH

First solution: not very satisfactory Palladio travels to Rome (1547) to study the ancient and continuous, repeated roman architecture

BASILICA PALLADIANA'S FACADE DETAIL BASILICA PALLADIANA'S PLAN & ELEV ATION
 THE BASILICA THROUGH TIME
1549- 1614

· 1549 Starting of the excavation for the ground — the bases of the northwest corner—.

· 1552 The two lower arches are completed.

· 1556 The two arches of the northeast corner were completed.
· 1558 Southwest corner.

· 1561 The lower order of the northern and western sides was completed.
· 1564 The pertinent works for the superior order began.

· 1580 Palladio's death.

· 1584 The work will return to the activity under the direction of Giovanni Antonio Grazioli.

· 1597 The superior orders of the northern and western sides are completed.

· 1614 The work is finally completed.

 THE BASILICA THROUGH TIME
1612 - 1950

· 1612 Second external stairs in the southwest corner.

· 1670 Earthquake.

· 1775 First restoration process begining.

· 1793 First restoration process ending.

· 1828 Giacomo Fontana y Bartolomeo Malacarne : substituition of roof structure and materials.
· 1845 II W.W bombing.

· 1947 Second restoration process begining — reinforced concrete—.

· 1949 Second restoration process ending.

· 1950 Accesibility by two steps.

INSIDE THE BIG HA LL OF THE BA SILICA

 THE BASILICA STYLE
SERLIAN

· Original term for 'palladian / venetian window'.

· It's an archway or window with 3 openings:
- the central one arched and wider than
- the flanking openings: enclosed at the top by an architrave and rectangular.
· Palladio's hallmark
· The diameter of the arches in the Serlias remained constant.
· The width of the lateral lintel intercolumnios varied in each section - ELASTICITY
· Lightened the mass of the pillars

SERLIANA DETAIL IN THE BASILICA

 THE BASILICA STYLE
ORDERS & STRUCTURE

· The frame lodges is attached firmly to the inner walls with an edge
vault in brick.
· Solid roundness of the shafts that cover the important corner
pillars.

• Hides the anomaly of the vertices out of square

• Reinforces such critical points of the structure whose
weakness had been the cause of the collapse of the
lodges of Formenton

DETAIL OF THE PILARS

DETAIL OF THE CORRIDOR

THE BASILICA: PHOTOS
OUTSIDE
THE BASILICA: PHOTOS
OUTSIDE - ROOF
THE BASILICA: PHOTOS
OUTSIDE - CORRIDOR
 THE BASILICA: PHOTOS
OUTSIDE - STAIRS & CORRIDOR
THE BASILICA: PHOTOS
OUTSIDE - FACADE DETAILS
THE BASILICA: PHOTOS
OUTSIDE – ROOF DETAILS
THE BASILICA: PHOTOS
INSIDE
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