Renzo Piano

VERNACULAR ARECHITECTURE
Renzo Piano (born 14 September 1937) is
an Italian architect.

He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.

Renzo Piano was born in 1937 to a family of

builders and has always seen himself as an
architect with a builder's roots.

The young Piano was deeply involved in the

mechanics of buildings and, from an early age,
learned to think about the use of space.

He went to Milan Polytechnic to study Architecture and

graduated in 1964 .

Worked with famed architects Louis I, Kahn, and Z.S.

Makowsky until 1970.
Renzo performs in its early designs that break traditional paradigms in
architecture such as authorship, the durability or the same spatial rigidity,
projects what he called "adaptable spaces“

• Recognized as an Architect, "adaptive", creator and visionary

• Renzo Piano designed a building capable of integrating with nature, in
tribute to one of the most prolific and profound artists of modern times. •
He is also known as “ ecological innovator”- the protection of the
environment, far from being a limitation, it has become a "source of
inspiration" for the development of major projects being undertaken in
many countries
 In 1977, Piano's first masterpiece
the Pompideau Centre opened in Paris and
Piano achieved international acclaim for his
work. He has since then designed buildings
worldwide and added to or renovated buildings
to promote more light and open spaces.

His notable buildings include :

• The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris

(with Richard Rogers, 1977),
• The Shard in London (2012)
• The Whitney Museum of American
Art in New York City (2015)
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural
Center in Athens (2016). Drawing by Piano for
the Jean-Marie Tjibaou The Shard in London (2012)
Cultural Centre (1991–98)
PHILOSOPHY

From a sports stadium in his native Italy to a cultural center in the south Pacific,
Piano's architecture exhibits futuristic design, a sensitivity to the
environment, and attention to the user experience.
Notable Quote:
"Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean,
architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is
typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together.
Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way,
architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the
complexity of things."
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:-

Renzo Piano's work has been called "high-tech" and bold "postmodernism."
His 2006 renovation and expansion of the Morgan Library and Museum shows that he has much more than
one style. The interior is open, light, modern, natural, old, and new at the same time.

With attention to detail and maximizing the use of Sports Stadium

natural light, Piano's many projects exemplify San Nicola In
how massive structures can retain a Bari, Italy
delicateness.

 Examples include the 1990 sports stadium

San Nicola in Bari, Italy, designed to appear
to open like petals of a flower.

 Likewise, in the Lingotto district of Turin, Italy, the

1920s-era car manufacturing factory now has a
transparent bubble meeting room on the roof—a
light-filled area built for employees in Piano's 1994
building conversion. The exterior facade remains
historic; the interior is all new
HIGH TECH ARCHITECTURE
• Renzo Piano is often called a "HighTech" architect because his designs
showcase technological shapes and materials.
• High-tech buildings are often called machine-like. Steel, aluminium, and
glass combine with brightly colored braces, girders, and beams.
• Many of the building parts are prefabricated in a factory and assembled
later. The support beams, duct work, and other functional elements are
placed on the exterior of the building, where they become the focus of
attention. T
• Thhe interior spaces are open and adaptable for many uses
DESIGN CHARACTERIZED BY:
• His architecture is defined as solid construction made by excellent materials.
• Take advantages of the topography to the relationship between the internal spaces and also so the outside.
• Renzo piazo designed a building capable of intergrating with nature, in tribute to on
• Its architecture is defined as solid construction made by excellent materials . e of the most prolific and profound
artists of modern times.
• Take advantage of the topography to the relationship between the internal spaces and also to the outside.
• Renzo Piano designed a building capable of integrating with nature, in tribute to one of the most prolific and
profound artists of modern times.
• History is characterized by using building material.
RENZO PIANO:
ECOLOGICAL INNOVATOR
For the great Italian architect Renzo Piano, the protection of the environment, far from being a limitation, it has become a
"source of inspiration" for the development of major projects being undertaken in many countries
VARIETY

Piano building exteriors are rarely the same, signature style that cries out the architect's name.
The 2015 stone-sided New Parliament Building in Valletta, Malta is quite different from the
2010 colorful terracotta facades of Central St. Giles Court in London—and both are different than
the 2012 London Bridge Tower, which because of its glass exterior is today known as "The Shard."

But Renzo Piano does speak of a theme that unites his work:

"There is one theme that is very important for me: lightness...In my architecture, I try to use
immaterial elements like transparency, lightness, the vibration of the light. I believe that they
are as much a part of the composition as the shapes and volumes."
CENTRO PAUL KLEE
CONCEPT:
- Piano The guiding idea was to create something more than a museum.
Renzo Piano was the lightness of the artist's sense of belonging and light.
-It was therefore decided to create a place, raise the land, making land available for a work
of art itself.
-As if it were more of a survey done by a knowledgeable farmer, rather than the result of an
architectural methodology.
-So he designed three hills. Three waves that rise and
from the ground. With different dimensions, the three
waves traverse the ground like a sculpture or the
result of the same nature.
• Each has a different function undulations therein.
• The first and larger, a 400-seat auditorium, and art
workshops for children.
• In the second wave, the middle, smaller than the first,
is the permanent collection of Paul Klee, and temporary
exhibition spaces.
• In the third one, the least of all, lies the research and
management
• The design of the Zentrum Paul Klee is characterized by the structure of corrugated
steel deck.
• These beams have the complex curves neither is equal to the other, since the wave
form extends from the front to the back where it is lost together with the ground, and
each "wave" has different height
• Each of the curved steel beams with different weights, has been constructed
individually

After reviewing alternative materials such as aluminium, copper and

titanium, it was decided to use a hardened cover.
The ecological criteria, economic and technical were decisive for
this choice.
 CENTRO CULTURAL JEAN-MARIE Tjibaou
BUILT IN: 1991-1998
LOCATION: Noumea, New Caledonia
Its architecture evokes the
vernacular Kanak huts of New
Caledonia and still has a very
modern feel. It is a community
center, and in turn educational
museum.
CHARACTERSTICS:

•The project design is intended to take advantage of natural winds coming from the
Pacific Ocean. The exterior is made of wood, wind filter a second layer of glass
shutters that open and close natural ventilation.
•The complex is built entirely of iroko wood very resistant to moisture and insects.
This wood was imported from Ghana.
•Iroko structure provides a comb-shaped. Evocative of the cabins and craftsmanship
Kanak, the slender ribs of the structure and the slats that are joined seamlessly
integrated both in the lush landscape and the culture of its inhabitants.
• The wood siding and stainless steel,
is based on the form of regional huts Kanakas.
These structures resemble traditional structural
elements such as herringbone struts
that prevent buckling of long beams.
The wood siding and
stainless steel, is based
on the form of regional
huts Kanakas.
These structures
resemble traditional
structural elements
such as herringbone
struts that prevent
buckling of long
beams.
The Centre Pompidou also
known as the Pompidou Centre in Englishis a
complex building in the Beaubourg area of
the 4th arrondissement of Paris. It was
designed in the style of high-tech
architecture by the architectural team
of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, along
with Gianfranco Franchini.

It houses a vast public library;

the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the
largest museum for modern art in Europe;
and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic
research.

Location Paris, France

Completed 1971–1977

Structural system Steel superstructure with reinforced concrete floors

Design
It was the first major example of an 'inside-out' building in architectural history, with its structural system,
mechanical systems, and circulation exposed on the exterior of the building. Initially, all of the functional
structural elements of the building were colour-coded: green pipes are plumbing, blue ducts are for climate
control, electrical wires are encased in yellow, and circulation elements and devices for safety (e.g., fire
extinguishers) are red.[9] According to Piano, the design was meant to be “not a building but a town where
you find everything – lunch, great art, a library, great music”.
Building specifications[13]
Land area 2 hectares (5 acres)
Floor area 103,305 m2
Superstructure 7 levels
Height 42 m (Rue Beaubourg side), 45.5 m (Piazza side)
Length 166 m
Width 60 m
Infrastructure 3 levels
Dimensions Depth: 18 m; Length: 180 m; Width: 110 m
Materials used[13]
Earthworks 300,000 m3
Reinforced concrete 50,000 m3
Metal framework 15,000 tonnes of steel
Façades, glass surfaces 11,000 m2
Opaque surfaces 7,000 m2
HIS PHRASES:-

• "Architecture is a service."
• "Architecture is an artistic craft, but at the same time it is also a scientific
profession, it is precisely its distinctiveness" - Renzo Piano
• "When style gets to become a brand, a personal seal, this becomes a cage"
• "The architect is first and foremost a builder, but also should be a poet, and
above all a humanist