La modernidad en Valencia a través de tres obras del arquitecto Mauro Lleó

Abstract

After town planning stagnation that the autarchic stage supposed, began the real urban "boom" which doubled the urbanized city of Valencia area. From the radio-concentric structural solution posed by the land-use planning of 1946, the new axes of both, urban development and industrial, were established being the west, Manises-Quart de Poblet-Aldaia, specialized in the metal industry. But the plan was not viable without a network of radial roads that gave the historical paths suitable proportion to their new condition. This is the case of Cami Reial de Castilla that in 1953 was opened to traffic, becoming the new entrance road from Madrid to Valencia and the connection to the Manises airport. A large commercial and industrial axis was created along which large companies given its good communications with the capital of the state would be installed. This is the case of the bottler Coca-Cola (1958), the metal processing factory FLEX (1961) or the subsidiary SEAT (1965), all buildings made by the same architect, Mauro Lleo Serret (1914-2001), that became pioneers of modernity in the city. Bottling plant Coca-Cola, still being debtor in materials of Gutierrez-Soto models, plays in its composition with simple volumes of one or two plants that join successfully linking the program contained. The FLEX factory is an industrial building height that shows in its facade the structural grid that holds it, although still built with concrete, is confirmed as a compositional resource that is approaching the architect to Miesian constructive solutions. Finally, the S.E.A.T. building was a step towards standardized construction and prefabrication, though still distrusts in the solution of its facades built with curtain walls, brise-soleil and metal canopies. Highlighting the exhibition vehicle building, a geodesic sphere of steel and glass.