Abstract
Abstract. Conservation of modern and contemporary cultural heritage, which goes from design objects, to architecture, to cities and territories, is certainly a current topic and in the development phase as it is underway – in the same modernity – a process of systematic replacement of architectural elements, outcome of solutions then experimental, which today are reproduced with contemporary materials, analogous in the appearance, but intimately different especially in the technological content.The paper describes the particular case of La Tour de Meudon, better known as The Tower, (1966) by André Bloc, a contemporary architect of Le Corbusier, founder of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, who created his habitable sculptures. All his works mark the evolution of geometric abstraction to the free form, and they are still admirable testimonies of a journey that led him from architecture to architecture. His Architecture and his sculpture intertwine, opening the plastic unity of form in physical space–time. The survey is a fundamental moment for the knowledge of these hybrid architectures, where the structural component is hidden by its evident plasticity, as if it were a large sculpture with abstract and overlapping geometric shapes.Survey isn't only an analysis of geometries: it is instrumental to the other structural and material analyses since it provides a metric and topological basis on which to spatially locate the phenomena being studied. The integrated survey of the building (laser scanning, photogrammetry, topography) has allowed to document his project, contributing to the to definition of the actual construction characteristics and ascertain both the material consistency and the state of conservation.
Highlights
The paper describes the particular case of La Tour de Meudon, better known as The Tower, (1966) by André Bloc, a contemporary architect of Le Corbusier, founder of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, who created his habitable sculptures
The Tower terms of dimensions and constructive method, but it is by André Bloc (De Witt d.J. and De Witt E.R.,1987) located suddenly transformed from 'object to be seen' to 'space to be near Paris within the property of Meudon where it coexists traveled', urging to move from a contemplative status to an with other works of the architect
The materials used are the same that we find in physical consistency and the state of conservation
Summary
Did not try to give a sculptural definition to architecture but the inverse. This sculpture is equivalent to an architecture, in. Thanks to the survey, carried out with final realization, is dated 1965-66, realized in 1: 5 scale, it well-established methods and techniques, and its clearly distinguishes itself from the first one for its stable and representation it is possible to better understand the play of massive appearance: the volumes acquire consistency, the volumes, the fulls and the empties, the characteristics of this surfaces become rough, the asymmetries reduced The central architecture such an organic form. The following step consisted in surveying 37 targets placed on the external surface of the tower and on some surrounding natural points, to allow the referencing of laserscanning and photogrammetric survey data obtained in the same reference system. GoPro: 801 frames;; Rsme : ±0,0063 m, 23 GCPs. The photogrammetric data were used to integrate and fill the gaps of the laserscanning clouds, to obtain a model much more suitable for 3D printing
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