Luis Monsalve. Sus cascarones y paraboloides hiperbólicos en Ecuador. (Spanish)

Luis Monsalve's shells and hyperbolic paraboloids in Ecuador. (English)

ECUADOR; CUENCA (Ecuador)

One year after his demise, the reinforced concrete shells of engineer Luis Alberto Monsalve Ortiz, from Cuenca-Ecuador, are discovered. His structures range from elliptical to hyperbolic paraboloids, from rectangular to hexagonal umbrellas, whether they were inverted or straight ones, from conoids to conical segments, from hyperbolic cylinders to spherical caps, and other double-curved surfaces designed and built between 1964 and 1980. Starting with two important Monsalve's loggings, his sketchbook and his constructions photo album, followed by visits to his buildings, on-site surveys, and various interviews, the globality of Monsalve's oeuvre is presented for the first time, followed by four significative case studies of his projects. His innovative work was achieved in a practice distant from traditional ones in the time and place in which he worked. Documentation and interpretation of the impact of his works on Ecuadorian engineering and architectural modernity has begun as a way of understanding our past and present. Ideally, capturing the essence of Monsalve's ideas can bring us closer to anticipating the new forms and constructive techniques of the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A un año de su partida, se descubren los cascarones delgados de concreto armado del ingeniero cuencano Luis Alberto Monsalve Ortiz. Sus estructuras van desde paraboloides elípticos a paraboloides hiperbólicos, desde paraguas rectangulares a hexagonales, sean estos invertidos o derechos; desde conoides a segmentos cónicos, desde cilindros hiperbólicos a casquetes esféricos y otras superficies de simple y doble curvatura diseñadas y construidas entre 1964 y 1980. Partiendo del estudio de dos importantes bitácoras de Monsalve, su cuaderno de bocetos y su álbum de fotos de construcciones, seguidos de visitas a sus edificios, levantamientos in situ y varias entrevistas, se presenta por vez primera la globalidad de su cuerpo de obras y se examinan cuatro casos de estudio de proyectos significativos. Su innovadora obra fue lograda en una suerte de contracorriente a las prácticas tradicionales de la época y el lugar en que le tocó actuar. Se ha dado inicio a la documentación e interpretación del impacto de sus obras en la modernidad ingenieril y arquitectónica ecuatoriana como una forma de comprender nuestro pasado y presente. Idealmente, capturar la esencia de las ideas de Monsalve puede acercarnos a anticipar las nuevas formas y técnicas constructivas del futuro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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