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Barcelona Pavilion: Advance Construction 18041AA074

The Barcelona Pavilion was designed by German architect Mies van der Rohe. It represented Germany in 1929 World's Fair in Barcelona and featured his minimalist style using modern materials like steel, glass and concrete. The pavilion had a floating floor plan without interior walls, blurring the boundary between inside and outside. It was supported by a lightweight steel structure of eight cruciform columns resting on a travertine plinth. The pavilion aimed to represent a new progressive era in Germany through its innovative architecture and open concept design.

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Barcelona Pavilion: Advance Construction 18041AA074

The Barcelona Pavilion was designed by German architect Mies van der Rohe. It represented Germany in 1929 World's Fair in Barcelona and featured his minimalist style using modern materials like steel, glass and concrete. The pavilion had a floating floor plan without interior walls, blurring the boundary between inside and outside. It was supported by a lightweight steel structure of eight cruciform columns resting on a travertine plinth. The pavilion aimed to represent a new progressive era in Germany through its innovative architecture and open concept design.

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BARCELONA PAVILION

ADVANCE CONSTRUCTION
18041AA074
MIES VANDER ROHE

• ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF


MODERN ARCHITECTURE
• GERMAN-AMERICAN
• ESTABLISHED MODERN
STYLE AS IN TIMES LIKE
GOTHIC,EUROPEAN ETC..

• MINIMALISM
Minimalism concept of architecture is to make things great only out
Of necessity,rather than adding extra elements.
• MAIN ELEMENTS OF MINIMALIST ARCHITECTURE
Pure geometric forms
No ornamentation
Exposing of structural system
Using single colour palette
Materials are glass,steel and concrete
Repitition of elements to give uniformity
Clean and sleek lines
CONCEPT
• The Pavilion was supposed to represent the new Weimar
Germany: democratic, culturally progressive, prospering, and
thoroughly pacifist; a self-portrait through architecture. The
Commissioner, Georg von Schnitzler said it should give "voice to
the spirit of a new era". This concept was carried out with the
realization of the "Free plan" and the "Floating room".
PAVILION

• The Pavilion was going to be bare, no trade exhibits, just the


structure accompanying a single sculpture and purpose-
designed furniture (the Barcelona Chair). This lack of
accommodation enabled Mies to treat the Pavilion as a
continuous space; blurring inside and outside.
• The spaces are arranged in a floating manner and has visual
connectivity between them.
• The geometry followed is the simples rectangles which also
helps in the systems functioning in interior walls.
Chrome plated sheet

STRUCTURE Four rolled steel


angles bolted
together

Chrome plate attached


cruciform with machine screws

• The Barcelona pavilion is a floating structure supported by eight


cruciform columns and whole rests on a 1m high traventine
plinth.
• The slab is also a lightweight made of a concrete slab on a thin
metal deck.
• Other than these columns a u-shaped bearing wall is constructed
to support the roof.
STRCUTURAL COMPARISON
_FRANSWORTH HOUSE

• In terms of static structure, the Farnsworth House is the


maximum expression of minimalism, using only the minimum
elements necessary to assure the stability of the house. These
elements form the eight columns, separated by a distance of 6.6
metres, which support the two slabs which form the floor and
roof.
• The pillars, which are situated tangentially to the outer
edge of the slabs, do not interrupt the horizontal planes.
The floor and roof conform in the same way. The pillars are
formed by a continuous single-piece profile, from the floor
to the top of the roof. The vertical line dominates over the
projection of the structure and parallel to the two planes-
the lower one of the floor and the upper of the roof- which
helps to reinforce the equivalence between the two.
• The structure is formed by a steel framework, meticulously
crafted with beams and columns, which supports the
prefabricated cement slabs used for the floor and roof.
• The slabs overshoot the structure of columns by 2.75m,
creating corners free of columns which help to emphasize
the immateriality of the house.

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