Patel Utsav Sanjay

HH-2 Tectonics

Unfolding the Folding Plates | The robust fragile plates of Tagore Hall The essay lightens on the Folded Plates, the iconic and crucial element of this structure making this Brutalist1 form masterpiece of architecture. The concrete folded plates here are creating the entire shell structure that rose independently from the ground. The concrete folded plate structure is an assembly of slabs or plates of different shape at different inclination at a different position in different position. On joining them along the longitude edge it forms an entire span with ridges and valleys. They are mainly cast on-site (in situ) or are precast RCC or even steel plate.