Casa da Música, Porto

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2005

Authors

Pedro Moás (Author) FEUP; Rui Furtado (Author) Other; Rui Oliveira (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Structural Engineering International: Journal of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)

Vol. 15 No. 2

Pages: 68-71

ISSN: 1016-8664

Publisher: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Structural engineering

Other information

Abstract (EN): 'Casa da Música', Porto new concert hall building, has an unusual exterior form with a complex arrangement of interior spaces. The principal internal spaces are the main auditorium for 1300 spectators and a small auditorium for 300 spectators. The main structure of the building is of white reinforced concrete, which is to a large extent exposed. Construction steel is only locally used. The exterior of the building is composed by large reinforced concrete wall panels 40 cm thick and inclined at different angles. These panels, joined monolithically, form an external shell which is the fundamental element of the building¿s primary structure. The primary structure also includes two large longitudinal walls limiting the main auditorium and the floor slabs, which, acting as membranes, work as stiffening vault ribs for the shell, absorbing and transferring the horizontal forces.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific