The 3D model is available in SketchUp 8 so everyone can download it. I wanted to model the Los Manantiales Restaurant in sketchUp, trying to reproduce better the original project, and share it with all members of Sketchup Texture Club hoping you enjoy it. In the front edges of the parables we can see how close the space from glass plates with metallic trim 2.40 x 2.40 meters.
At first glance you see the concrete lip that never touches the earth and keeps the flight. The maturity and insight of Candela allowed to eliminate the edge beam and concentrate the weight support structure starting at the supports that are tucked into the outer edge of the paraboloids.
The decision to fire was the design of a circular dome, formed by the intersection of eight segments from the meeting of four hyperbolic paraboloid (surface similar to that of a saddle horse).
During the twentieth century, Xochimilco was (and remains) a place of recreation for the inhabitants of Mexico City that Sunday to Sunday strolling through the channels in so-called 'trajineras' (wooden boats) by the lake of the same site, lingering with the floating gardens that exist here.Ĭandela did not want to clash with tradition and beauty that nature gave to this place, so he decided to propose a building with features that they might be involved in these gardens, as an object that floats from its structure, resembling a flower lotus floating on the water, achieves this effect
