A Look at the Modern Movement in Cuba: A Climatic Focus. Alturas del Vedado, Havana

This article constitutes an approach to the study of the architectural patrimony of the Modern Movement in theResidential’s Allotment Alturas del Vedado. It shows the result of the symbiosis between the international modern architectureand Cuba’s climatic conditions. It is seen through the housing t...

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Autor Principal: Ramírez Li, Ramón; Instituto Superior Politécnico “José Antonio Echeverría”, Cuba
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Instituto Carlos Arbeláez Camacho para el patrimonio arquitectónico y urbano 2014
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revApuntesArq/article/view/8956
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Sumario: This article constitutes an approach to the study of the architectural patrimony of the Modern Movement in theResidential’s Allotment Alturas del Vedado. It shows the result of the symbiosis between the international modern architectureand Cuba’s climatic conditions. It is seen through the housing types, the architectural elements (carpentries,walls, solar protection and cover’s elements), their influence in the internal microclimate and materials employees.The urban morphology of this area is also described emphasizing the climatic parameter’s influence.This study is the result of the investigation, summary and prosecution of the information related with the CubanModern Movement, the urbanization of the allotment and the climatic behavior in Havana city. Their purpose is tosettle down that the new interventions in the city consider as valid the elements compositivos, functional, aestheticand climatic that contributes this architecture type.This study constitutes the base of next architectural designs that incorporate the use of the climatic parameters,recapturing the Moving Modern Cuban incorporating the current tendencies.