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The architecture of mobile Maurizio Sacripanti

Sacripanti Maurizio (Rome, 1916 - 1996) was one of the best architects in the world. It marked the research of mobile architectures as early as the design of the skyscraper Peugeot in Buenos Aires for a competition in 1960.

" Mutable is subtracted image sets " (1) : a lto 200 meters above ground, the Peugeot is "a neighborhood vertical banded blades on which you can write " (1) . E 'consists of volumes, hooked on a central tower communications, heights ranging from one to ten floors: each volume is a commercial advertising and design is integrated into the composition so as to communicate to the city the names of different companies.

insight and views of the skyscraper nottirna Peugeot

E 'organized on three rings that make up many autonomous areas in terms of functional and constructive. The office floors are made for planimetric elements set, whose surfaces are modular to reach the required one. "The skyscraper container will not be anonymous but will be identified as the sum of the volumes corresponding to companies that occupy it, punctuated by bursts or lodges consentirnno the vision of the outside of the" heart of skyscraper " (1) . Large brise-soleil aluminum orient themselves automatically through a system of photocells and stamped with segments of characters and symbols that make up letters and desired brands. The jury judged the best project in the competition, but inexplicably gave him a shameful second place, giving the first in an anonymous box because "higher." Yet the call did not require a race in height, but an innovative idea.

Simple but ingenious project presented in 1965 in the competition for the new opera house of Cagliari: a theater movement. This is a single stage, single unit plastic processed in accordance with the requirements of each representation through the ceiling and floor on prismatic joint mobility motorized controlled by a computerized system.

split mobile Theatre of Cagliari, 1965

This would been able to study and invent time to time, the most varied, from traditional to more daring and experimental, evaluated jointly spatial values, public-relations actors, acoustic conditions and visibility. This project was praised as the best and had to settle for a shameful second place.

the competition for the Italian Pavilion at Expo 1970 in Osaka modiale, Sacripanti has yet another project in motion (see sketch the image to start page). He wrote: " maybe ... memory of a Pantheon "set in motion", where the dome becomes a system of blades in the balance and the walls transparent membranes , maybe ... I remember the hut or tent ... but more was the desire to rediscover an area where the shadow deltempo shattered, no longer static, leaving the sky elusive and living together ... "(1).

Italian pavilion for Osaka '70

14 vertical blades oscillate driven by a pneumatic system , placed under a system of eccentric pins which set a deformable surface clear that it follows the oscillations. 3035 square meters of exhibition on several levels to show the world the best Italian products in a building that constantly changes in unpredictable ways, a symbol of an Italy itself dynamic and moving. This was also judged the best project and took the second prize: Another shame of a country static and static, which did not and does not want move, then watched as Bruno Zevi.
"I sick of being told that my designs are the best and then arrive at regular "repeated Sacripanti. The projects that we have mentioned are just three examples a tireless work, a brilliant and innovative that occupied him throughout his life: "I wanted the modular design and motion planning functions in which the protagonist was time."

The lesson of this great Italian architect has been closed too quickly with the usual excuse sloppy, cynical and indolent character always ready to repeat: " was a man of his time . That is to say, between the lines, " has had its day." Sacripanti, however, was a man of our time. Above all, our future.
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(1) Maurizio Sacripanti: City border Bulzoni publisher, Rome 1973