Los Manantiales
Ronak Shethji
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Project: Los Manantiales
Architect: Felix Candela
Year of Completion: 1958
Place: Xochimilco, Mexico City
Los Manantiales stands as a pioneering thin-shell concrete structure utilizing intersecting hyperbolic paraboloids, allowing for expansive spans and a unique groin-vaulted geometry. It is a Eight sided flower like shell strucure.
Mass and Force Distribution
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Model of Los Manantiales
Design Process for Light Pavilion
The above model is of Villa NM in New York by UN Studio where I studied about twisting of walls, and started applying the concept of twisted walls in my design by using paper strips.
From the Los Manantiales structure I studied about invertes arches which I have used as key element in the design models below.
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