The Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer in Ravello, southern Italy is an iconic new concrete building perched above the Amalfi coast. The €16·7 million, 400-seat venue was completed in 2010 and provides a much-needed venue for this world heritage site’s wealth of renaissance-inspired art and cultural events. The main structural feature is a 35 m vaulted roof supported on a slab cantilevering 12 m out from supporting walls, giving the building the appearance of floating in air. This paper reports on the many multi-disciplinary design and construction challenges involved in delivering this unique and geometrically complex building on a steep and confined site. A key issue was the need to respect the architectural vision while achieving an efficient and sustainable design.
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February 01 2013
Concrete renaissance: design and construction of the Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer, Ravello, Italy Available to Purchase
Giampiero Martuscelli, MSc, MACI;
Giampiero Martuscelli, MSc, MACI
1
Technical Director, Interprogetti, and visiting professor University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Ida Coppola, MSc, MICE;
Ida Coppola, MSc, MICE
2
Senior Structural Engineer, Interprogetti, Naples, Italy
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Massimo Di Placido, MSc
Massimo Di Placido, MSc
3
Senior Structural Engineer, Interprogetti, Naples, Italy
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
March 20 2012
Accepted:
June 14 2012
Online ISSN: 1751-7672
Print ISSN: 0965-089X
ICE Publishing: All rights reserved
2013
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering (2013) 166 (1): 19–26.
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Received:
March 20 2012
Accepted:
June 14 2012
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Martuscelli G, Coppola I, Di Placido M (2013), "Concrete renaissance: design and construction of the Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer, Ravello, Italy". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering, Vol. 166 No. 1 pp. 19–26, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/cien.12.00008
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