Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
This story was originally published on canalcaribe.ict.cu. [1]
Girón Building, the chimera of the feet in the sky
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Date: 2021-09
Havana awoke in 1967 and Quintana had a plan. I had thought maybe before. I knew it would come out of the “molds” with the new building. He did not stop until he saw his staggered plans on the mainland. Today, the Giron of Malecon and F building is more than a witness to a new type of architecture. In those years, the policy of “putting your feet on the ground” was established for architecture professors, directing them to combine teaching work with on-site practice.
Unhappy from his student stage with the classic canons, Antonio Quintana had his architect’s credential with papers in 1944. More than one night he took to study the precepts of contemporary architecture. More than a day defend your project before a doubtful guild.
The building is composed of two towers of 17 floors articulated by a core of elevators attached to the stairs by long tubes of horizontal circulation, small cladded closets that protrude on the façade attenuating the effect of large screen on the towers.
For its construction, the sliding mold system was used in high-rise housing for the first time in Cuba. Antonio Quintana and Alberto Rodríguez Surribas, together with a group of Architecture and Civil Engineering students from the University of Havana and Ing. Sixto Ruiz, Hugo Wainshtock Rivas and César Rivero Lage, conceived this experimental project. Girón is unique in many aspects: it was the first construction in Cuba of this model.
The large vertical walls would have the function of structural eardrums and in turn hold slabs with a post-tensioning system and armed with high elastic steel are anchored to the eardrums saving large lights and thus avoiding the use of beams. These elements would contain the basic cell of the house, subdivided by light partitions, maintaining the maximum continuity of space in the distribution, several of the interior elements were prefabricated, door frames, dividing panels of siporex, bathrooms, kitchens, etc.
The building model did not continue to be applied. The story says that it served as the basis for the massive prefabrication that began in the 70s. Today, between demolished and brand new escort of selfies along the boardwalk, the gray giant continues to fill the modernist postcards of the Havana Vedado. The building model did not continue to be applied. The story says that it served as the basis for the massive prefabrication that began in the 70s. Today, between demolished and brand new escort of selfies along the boardwalk, the gray giant continues to fill the modernist postcards of the Havana Vedado
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