Reinforced ceramic vault of double curvature (Dieste)
Bóveda cerámica armada de doble curvatura (Dieste)
- Date
- 1958-1960 · confidence high
- Place
- Atlántida, Canelones, Uruguay
- Credited to
- Eladio Dieste
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Dieste built thin laminar roofs of reinforced brick with steel, in Gaussian curves, spanning tens of metres on few supports. The Cristo Obrero church shows the technique with undulating walls stiffened by shape.
The first vaults were built in Montevideo in the 1950s; the Atlántida church (1958-1960) is his best-known work.
What it led to
- reinforced-brick halls, markets and silos in Uruguay and Argentina
- reinforced ceramic as an economical alternative to concrete
- shell engineering without complex machinery