ALDO ROSSI (1931-1937)Italian Architect, Theorist, Product Designer

‘Caught between the classical world and the industrial world’.

“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”

“The Architecture of the City” Aldo Rossi

SAN CATALDO CEMETERYMODENA ITALY

Architect: ALDO ROSSIYear of completion: 1971Location: Modena, ItalyType: Cemetery ComplexStyle: Neo Rationalism

Entrance Gateway Red cubic ossuary,

Funeral Structure

Communal GraveParallel running ossuary

Wide green areas

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The Bounding Wall of the Complex

Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/laserdisk/0242/24216.JPG The interior

EXTERIORS• Unadorned exteriors• Static Volume• Uniformity in

openings• Discomforting Space

Source: http://www.archinomy.com/case-studies/1922/aldo-rossi

RED CUBE STRUCTURE

Source: http://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/arc-318l-final-buildings/deck/1661624

Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/modarch/byarch/display00242.html

Ossuary, funeral structure

Rhythmic articulation of openings interrupted by the ossuary cube

Square Pillars, Square windows, Symmetrical stripped architecture

INTERIORS

• No Floor Slabs

• No Roof

• Windows and Doors

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“House of Dead”

Shell of Openings

RIB-LIKE OSSUARIES

Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/modarch/byarch/display00242.html

Increase in height as length decreases

Series of Parallel running Ossuaries representing Bone Structure in humans

Central vertebral axis

Uniformity of negative spaces

Communal Grave

Conical Grave at the End of the Complex

Source: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/modarch/byarch/display00242.html

Shape representing the industrial Landscape beyond

the site

TEATRO DEL MONDO

Architect: ALDO ROSSIConstruction year: 1979Location: Venice, ItalyType: temporary theatreStyle: modern

According to Rossi theatres were “ places where architecture ends and world of imagination begins

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Rossi's repeated use of familiar architectural elements create a feeling of a place vaguely remembered.

“OBSERVATION IS THE BEST ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL”

PLANS

FIRST FLOOR PLANGROUND FLOOR PLAN

ROOF PLAN

Section and elevations

Structure

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Central stage

Upper galleries

Zinc cladded roof

Tubular steel frame

Wooden cladding

Bonnefanten museum ,Maastricht

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Architect: ALDO ROSSIConstruction year: 1992Location: Maastricht,

NetherlandsType: MuseumStyle: Post modern

Is the museum a collection of mementoes of life or is it itself a part of our lives? My architecture leaves an open verdict in this regard."

The design of the building is symmetrical and forms an E-shape

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Axis of the building

http://www.cultuurnetwerk.nl/producten_en_diensten/bronnenbundels/2000/2000_97c.jpg

PLAN

Entrance

Rossi was a great product designer. Connection between his objects and architecture were obvious. His timeless designs are based on simple geometrics, primal forms. His Architecture was based on form.

Façade treatment

Zinc claddingRed brick claddingUse of square windows

Building features

http://www.bonnefanten.nl/content/upload/crop/crop_14561_colw_358.jpg

Central staircase with 4 story wall height

http://www.marc-kocher.com/img/aldo_rossi_225x277.jpg

Circular skylight

SCHOLASTIC BUILDINGSOHO, NEW YORK

Architect: ALDO ROSSIYear of completion: 2001Location: Soho- a neighbourhood to Ney YorkStyle: Post Modern

6,700-square-foot store with the company's books, magazines, CD-ROM's, videos, games, puzzles, toys and art supplies.

Basement 299-seat auditorium

Penthouses

Green House atrium

Resource centre, Living Room, Offices,

Source: http://phaidonatlas.com/node/204196

A Building Fits in by Standing Out

Source: http://phaidonatlas.com/node/204196

TO FIT IN

• Uniformity in Height and Scale

Source: http://huntersandgatherersathome.blogspot.in/2010_07_01_archive.html Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Building

SCHOLASTIC BUILDING LITTLE SINGER BUILDING

• COLUMNAR FACADE

• SAME COLOURS USED

• DEEPLY RECESSED CURTAIN WALLS

• CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE USED-

“KIT OF PARTS”

TO STAND OUT

Source: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm

• MATERIAL USED

SCHOLASTIC BUILDINGLITTLE SINGER BUILDING

Source: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm

Source: http://clapforbacon.blogspot.in/2011/08/cast-iron-landmarks-in-soho.html

• CYLINDRICAL COLUMNS

STEEL, GLASS TERRACOTA,CAST IRON, BRICK

FRONT FACADE

REAR FACADE

• MONUMENTAL REAR FACADE

RED ARCHES5 TIERS OF TWO STORIES

• BOLTED HORIZONTAL STEEL BEAMS

• DETAILING ROOF CORNICE

Source: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/SOH001.htm

SCHOLASTIC BUILDING LITTLE SINGER BUILDING

Source: http://clapforbacon.blogspot.in/2011/08/cast-iron-landmarks-in-soho.html

Trabeated façade constructed with steel lintels

Extremely ornate roof cornice with iron brackets

• FAÇADE DETAIL

INTERIORS

CAFÉ INSIDE THE BUILDING

Source: http://www.libertychurchnyc.com/lower-manhattan-church-services-new-york-city/

Use of Steel inside as outside

PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE

Modelled on Palladio’s 16th Century theatre

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Teatro Olimpico (16th century Palladian Theatre)

arch critic Paul Goldberger, for one, has described the building as one that "will teach generations of architects the proper way to respond to historic contexts."

REFFERENCES• http://www.archinomy.com/case-studies/1922/aldo-rossi

• http://huntersandgatherersathome.blogspot.in/2010_07_01_archive.html

• http://www.scholastic.com/eventservices/eventservices.htm

• http://

ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/06/05/the_scholastic_building_a_newcomer_steeped_in_history.php

• http://

turismo.comune.modena.it/english/thematic-channels/discover-the-area/art-and-culture/modern-archite

cture/san-cataldo-cemetery-by-aldo-rossi

• http://www.archdaily.com/95400/ad-classics-san-cataldo-cemetery-aldo-rossi/