Los nuevos tipos estructurales para el siglo XXI

Resumen

The most representative architectural works in the last decade are characterized by an accentuation of their intention to distinguish theirself over another works that could mantein a connection or a relation with them, either because they belong to the same building typology in any sense or because they are located in the same physical environment. To make real this intention, authors can count on an unprecedented development state of Science and Technic, so they use new technologies to introduce and carry out their works like ever before. This use of new possibilities is a common and totally accepted factor that even get to the buildings that are committed to Nature, traditionally linked to so-called Low Tech. Regarding these considerations, we are talking about new architectural proposals with images, shapes, elements and compositions unthinkable from the point of view of materializing into real scale hardly twenty years ago. But these new proposals aspire to be built, so the question is: Does the need of adaptation to this new architectural context means that the architectural structures that are associated to it include new structural concepts or, at least, an evolution of those previous concepts, implemented and developed until the end of the 20th century? This is the main question that find answer in this document, in which we detect the main strategies of distinction that characterize the architectural scene in the last decade. We analyze the architectural structures that are associated with the most representative works of them and the degree of innovation and new contributions, if so, regarding the aspect of structural concepts.