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CASTILLO, Mauricio Luzuriaga-del; MONSALVE-CRESPO, Isabel; VELEZ-GUAYASAMIN, Mayte  y  CARRION-ROBLES, María Eliza. Luis Monsalve’s shells and hyperbolic paraboloids in Ecuador. Estoa [online]. 2022, vol.11, n.22, pp.154-174. ISSN 1390-9274.  https://doi.org/10.18537/est.v011.n022.a09.

One year after his demise, the reinforced concrete shells of engineer Luis Alberto Monsalve Ortiz, from Cuenca-Ecuador, are discovered. His structures range from elliptical to hyperbolic paraboloids, from rectangular to hexagonal umbrellas, whether they were inverted or straight ones, from conoids to conical segments, from hyperbolic cylinders to spherical caps, and other double-curved surfaces designed and built between 1964 and 1980. Starting with two important Monsalve’s loggings, his sketchbook and his constructions photo album, followed by visits to his buildings, on-site surveys, and various interviews, the globality of Monsalve’s oeuvre is presented for the first time, followed by four significative case studies of his projects. His innovative work was achieved in a practice distant from traditional ones in the time and place in which he worked. Documentation and interpretation of the impact of his works on Ecuadorian engineering and architectural modernity has begun as a way of understanding our past and present. Ideally, capturing the essence of Monsalve’s ideas can bring us closer to anticipating the new forms and constructive techniques of the future.

Palabras clave : concrete thin shell; hyperbolic paraboloid; hypar; formwork; Ecuador..

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