The Sorolla Institute of Valencia (Spain). A project by J.R. Azpiazu

What is it about?

The Sorolla Institute in Valencia is an interesting building representing contemporary architecture in the Valencian region built by J.R. Azpiazu. Class-rooms volumes are solved by means of a series of steps with cantilevers up to two meters materialized by thick corbels. However, its most relevant feature is the use of reinforced concrete folded thin-plates in the roofs of the assembly hall, access, hall, and parking canopies. Despite all of them belonging to the typology of opposed creases, their different dimensions, geometry and bearing conditions make them singular. A computer assisted model has been generated for each of the mentioned geometries and an assessment has been run by means of a software for finite elements. Some of the results exemplify the behavior of this expressive structural typology which is disused nowadays.

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