Published 2011
“…The results based on the parameters character-forming elements of
buildings on five cases the object of research, namely-Satolas Lyon TGV Station,
Valencia City of Arts and Sciences, Tenerife Concert Hall,
Milwaukee Art
Museum, and the Turning Torso showed that some of the character of the building
forming element in the work of Santiago Calatrava , namely: (1) The structure
used to generate architectural form and function as an architectural structure, is
used to describe the relationship between structure and architecture in which the
structural requirements are allowed to influence the shape of the building is very
strong even though the structure is exposed, (2) the dominance of material
concrete, steel and glass, which is processed by Calatrava is not common to
produce a form corresponding with the analogy of form, (3) analogy as a thematic
design, where form is present always monumental and iconic, (4) line element as
an element and the shape of the building facade. …”
Thesis