Blog 5 Felix Candela

The architect that I was given is Felix Candela, and he is acknowledged as a master builder and structural artist of the 20th century. One of his most popular creations is called the Cosmic Rays Laboratory, and it contained his famous style of concrete shells around and on top of buildings. The term “hyperbolic paraboloids” was coined, and he became one of its masters. This laboratory is the thinnest major structure ever built, and is also famous because it poses as a solution to the problem of creating a structure with an interior that permits the measurement of cosmic radiation. This building is located on the UNAM campus, where cosmic radiation beams were first studied and investigated. The shape is almost that of a farmhouse on stilts, but the walls are incredibly thin and sleek.

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