Local singularities in the architecture of Alejandro de la Sota. CENIM and Calculation Center of the Savings Postal Bank

Abstract

This article analyzes two alterations of the general order included respectively in the buildings of the National Center for Metallurgical Research (CENIM, 1963) and in the Calculation Center of the former Savings Bank Postal (1975) by Alejandro de la Sota. Both respond to practical aspects of their organization, but at the same time they involve aspects of meaning regarding the relationship of heterogeneous parts within the same project. They are included in the same study since they can establish common aspects differentiated from the rest of the projects, also utilitarian and related to work programs in De la Sota’s work. These aspects are especially linked to effects on the regularity of their project nettings. As indicated in annotation to the text –although its discussion has not been addressed within it because it exceeds the available space– a comprehensive examination of the composition between fundamental parts of other buildings of similar programs has been necessary to appreciate the real uniqueness existing in the here considered. The particularities of each one has invited a careful analysis that reveals their contributions to the total composition and the character of the spaces by them generated.