Felix Candela’s Concrete Shells: An Engineered Architecture for Mexico and Chicago at UIC Courtesy Alexander Eisenschmidt “He was an architect, engineer, and contractor in the ‘40, ‘50s, and ‘60s, which enabled him to design and work on hundreds of projects,” said Eisenschmidt. The structure is very similar to Candela's the Los Manantiales Restaurant, built in Mexico City in the 1950s. He is celebrated for his feats of architectural engineering that transform concrete into visual poetry with his structural design based on hyperbolic paraboloid geometric form. Yes, Felix Candela is a sentimental favorite of mine since the college days. The mention of the economic aspects of hyperbolic paraboloid design is characteristic of Mr. Candela, an essentially pragmatic man. The structure is made from four hyperbolic paraboloids intersecting each-other, creating this octagonal shape in plan. what is the best method for drawing this shell? But it’s a pity we don’t get much opportunity to design and build these kind of structures, due to various factors. Félix Candela is regarded as one the greatest Spanish architects of the 20th century. hyperbolic paraboloid in 3d using adt -3.3? The “hyperbolic paraboloid” was developed by Mexico-based Spanish engineer-architect Felix Candela who worked in the Dallas area with the great architect O’Neil Ford (on, specifically, the Great Southwest Industrial District and the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Building). Completed in 1955, the “Iglesia de la Medalla Milagrosa,” or Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, was designed by Felix Candela in a neighborhood of Mexico City surrounded primarily by low residential buildings. Félix Candela experiment with all sorts of combinations triangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal, perhaps this is the most famous of these. His following works will take you through his journey from simple forms to complex geometries and why he is rightly branded as the magician of structural expressions. Candela is pretty interesting — look him up. Felix Candela, an architect by training but an engineer and a sculptor by choice. The monks who had commissioned the project favored a Gothic building and reportedly did not realize the design’s modern style until after construction had started.