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En los laboratorios Richards, Kahn desarrollo al máximo el concepto de diferenciación de espacios sirvientes y servidos, enfatizando la idea de que cada función debe dotarse de una estructura independiente y reconocible visual y estructuralmente.
Los Laboratorios de Biotecnología Richards (en inglés: Richards Medical Research Building) están ubicados en la Universidad de Pensilvania, Estados Unidos. Son usados principalmente por estudiantes de las facultades de esta universidad relacionadas con la biología y tecnología.
- Served and Servant Spaces
- Evoking The Past
- Structure of The Richards Medical Research Laboratories
- About Louis Kahn
The served spaces are the laboratories themselves. The servant spaces are the independently structured shafts for ventilation and stairways attached to the outside of the laboratory towers and the two service towers, which house elevators, animal quarters, mechanical systems, and other auxiliary areas. Kahn spoke critically of laboratories designed...
Kahn, who up to this point had been an influential professor of architecture but not yet a significant architect, had been teaching that part of the problem was that too many architects were turning their backs on the past.With the Richards Medical Research Laboratories, Kahn showed a way forward with a design that was clearly in the Modern style a...
In contrast to buildings in the style of International Modernism, which typically had structures of relatively light-weight steel frames that were often hidden behind glass walls, the laboratory towers have concrete structures that are clearly visible and openly depicted as bearing weight. The structure was engineered by August Komendant, a pioneer...
Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 – 1974) was an American architect based in Philadelphia whose proposals and teaching made him one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Kahn created a monumental and monolithic style. Primarily, his massive buildings do not hide their weight, materials, or how they are assembled. Among Louis Kahn’s mo...
The Richards Medical Research Laboratories, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, were designed by architect Louis Kahn and are considered to have been a breakthrough in his career.
Richards Medical Research Laboratories. The Richards Labs are composed of a group of connected vertical volumes whose interior functions are expressed by differing exterior treatments.
Los Laboratorios de investigación médica Richards (Richards Medical Research Building) están ubicados en la Universidad de Pensilvania, Estados Unidos. Son usados principalmente por estudiantes de las facultades de esta universidad relacionadas con la biología y tecnología.
En un primer análisis de su obra, el edificio escogido como esencial fue el Richards Medical Research Laboratories (1957-1961) y el anexo, los Laboratorios de Biología (1962-1964). En este trabajo Kahn materializa una búsqueda de años de trabajo a una escala monumental con una potente coherencia.
