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Building Duration / El Portico de los Huespedes

El Portico de los Huéspedes is a pedagogical, design-research project that tests the possibility of an open-ended architecture, where duration links between past and future. It is a work of architecture as becoming: ‘work’ meaning the structure, rhythms an ...

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture2019

Textile reinforced concrete for sustainable structures: Future perspectives and application to a prototype pavilion

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

Textile reinforced concrete (TRC) is a cementitious‐based material where reinforcement consists of high‐strength noncorrosive textile fabrics. Due to the use of a noncorrosive reinforcement, cover requirements can be limited to minimum static values and th ...

2020

“El Pórtico de los Huéspedes”: Exploring other ways of building at the Open City in Valparaiso, Chile

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur

This chapter examines the pedagogical approach of the Valparaiso School of Architecture and Design (Valparaiso), its position within the Chilean academic landscape and the current collaboration with the Open City Research Platform. Since 2014, this collabo ...

Routledge2022

The potential of textile reinforced concrete for design of innovative structures

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is a recent evolution of ordinary reinforced concrete. This relatively new construction material replaces steel reinforcement with high-strength, non-corrosive textile fabrics in order to reduce cover requirements to minim ...

2019

Advancing TRC-LC as a sustainable technology for light prefabrication in social housing in Latin America

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Enrique Corres Sojo, Beatrice Malchiodi, David Carlos Fernandez-Ordoñez Hernandez

This paper explores the transdisciplinary methodology crafted by a collaborative research team of architects, civil engineers, and material scientists, from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and UFBA (Federal University of Bahia), in partners ...

CRC Press2025

Pedagogy through artisanal construction of thin-walled concrete elements: a dialogue between engineering and architecture

Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

2018

A prototype pavilion in textile reinforced concrete: a tool for research and pedagogy

Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, David Carlos Fernandez-Ordoñez Hernandez

fib. The International Federation for Structural Concrete2021