Deconstructivism

SANTIAGO CALATRAVA Early Life And Education

Born on July 28, 1951 in a town of
benimamet, near Valencia, Spain.
From the age of 8, he also attended the
arts and crafts school,
At the age of 13 he was an exchange
student in France and traveled to study
in Switzerland.
He earned a degree in architecture and
took a post-graduate course in
urbanism.
Being attracted by mathematics,
Calatrava decided to pursue post-graduate
studies in civil engineering, so he was
enrolled in the federal institute of
technology in Zurich, Switzerland in 1975.
He received his doctorate in 1979, during
that period he got married.
Inspiration And Style
human figure and nature’s creativity.
Experimentation with materials and their
properties.
blends impressive visual style and the strict
rules of engineering.
Symbolic and recognizable the world over for
the sense of movement captured in a
stationary object.
long sweeping lines, stark white materials
and a flawless use of glass and light.
Has a definite vision of inside and outside,
the concave and convex, of how we face the
specific world.
HSB, Turning Torso, Malmo ,Sweden

HSB Turning Torso is one of the tallest

residential buildings in Europe and holds
apartments, offices and meeting facilities.

The vision of HSB Turning Torso is based

on a sculpture called Twisting Torso by
Santiago Calatrava himself.
Inspiration from the human body in a
twistingmotion.
C O N C E P T U A L S TA G E S
•190 metres high.
•Consists of nine cubes with five floors
each.
•Together with intermediate floors a total of
54 floors.
•Each floor has 400m² of available space.
•147 apartments from cube three to nine.
•meeting facilities on the two top floors.
•Each floor consists of a square part
around the core and a triangular part
which is supported by an external steel
structure.
•The entire construction twists 90 degrees
on its way up with each floor tiltingby 1.6
degrees.
RECEPTION
TYPICAL FLOOR PLANS
FACADE
•facade is made of glass and aluminium
construction.
•2,800 panels and 2,250 windows.
•Following the twist of the building, the
windows are leaning either inwards or
outwards by 0 to 7 degrees.

ROTATION OF FLOORS

Forms for the floors were rotated approx. 1.6

degrees for each floor in order to create the
characteristic twist of the building.

OUTER STEEL AND SUPPORT

•The steel support is a welded construction

with a very thorough paint treatment for
optimal protection against corrosion.
•The outer steel support consists of a steel
column and 20 horizontal and 18 diagonal
”steel cigars”.
LIFTS
•3 lifts service the residential part of the
building and HSB Turning Torso Meetings.

•Two separate lifts service the offices :

ensures high capacity and minimum waiting
even during “rush hour” and in the instances
when a lift is closed for maintenance.
APARTMENTS