Smiljan Radic

摘要

The Teatro Regional del Biobio docs not have deep foundations, even though it is located just a short distance from the epicenter of the 2010 earthquake that struck with an intensity of 8.8 on the Richter scale. The entire building is constructed on compacted sand on a 30 cm thick concrete slab, with 50 cm thick reinforcement beams around the perimeter. The diagonal of the ground floor forms, with the first floor and foundation slab, a rigid surface diaphragm, as if the building were drifting and did not want to leave tracks. This strange sensation, together with its outer wrapping of translucent PTFE makes it in some respects a distant cousin to a circus tent. Seeing a structural cross section of the theatre or its foundation plans is a thing of joy.