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renzo piano

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 Prize in 1998 and is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
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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 Pompidou

Centre 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 Rogers and Su Rogers, Gianfranco Franchini, the British structural engineer Edmund
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Elevation.

View at night

View from north

View from southwest

Interior

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The IBM Pavilion concept

In 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 also
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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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Cladding
Claddings 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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