Valores formales en la arquitectura moderna alemana. Análisis del pabellón de Alemania en la exposición de Bruselas de 1958 de Sep Ruf y Egon Eiermann.

Abstract

This research aims to identify the formal values of the work: German Pavilion in the Brussels exhibition of 1958, by two German architects, Sep Ruf and Egon Eiermann. The architect, professor and furniture designer, Egon Eiermann (1904-1970), worked for some years in Hamburg before returning to Berlin, where, from 1931 to 1945, he worked on industrial buildings. In 1947 he was a professor at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, where he worked on steel construction methods. The architect Sep Ruf (1908-1982); played a very important role in the construction of Germany and Europe. He was one of the planners and builders of the new Federal Republic of Germany. He built several buildings, as well as elaborated development plans for several cities. The intention of this large-scale exhibition model was to show the technological and scientifi c advances that had come to each nation. It was a success for Belgium as it attracted exhibitors and visitors in large numbers. The area chosen for the exhibition was a large urban park structured along a main axis, facing the Cambre forest, occupying an area of 85 hectares. The plot assigned for the execution of the Pavilion was located on the southwest side of the exhibition site, covering an area of 18,000 m2 arranged on a slope. By reconstructing the project in its urban, built and detailed scales, the decisions of the architects are verifi ed in order to make the formal values of the project evident. For this study, characteristics such as: Program, location, relationship with the environment, functional dimensioning, route as a spatial linker, structure, constructive materiality, constructive details as intensifi ers of form are analyzed. These areas will allow the development of necessary analytical tools that will help identify modern architectural val