A Hexagonal Pattern in the Paraninfo at the Universidad de Alcalá
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/53499DOI: 10.1007/s00004-022-00630-y
ISSN: 1522-4600
Date
2022-09-01Funders
Research funded by Comunidad de Madrid/Universidad de Alcalá, Project CM/JIN/2019-041, IP: Manuel De Miguel Sánchez.
Bibliographic citation
Nexus Network Journal, 2022, v. , n. , p. 1-19
Keywords
Hexagonal pattern
Renaissance
Theater
Paraninfo
Coffered ceiling
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Comunidad de Madrid//CM%2FJIN%2F2019-041/ES/Estructuras de madera del renacimiento en Castilla La Mancha y Madrid: recuperación del sistema productivo y aplicación a las técnicas y materiales actuales/
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Publisher's version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-022-00630-yRights
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
© 2022 Springer Nature
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
In the sixteenth century, the assembly hall, or Paraninfo, at the recently inaugurated Universidad de Alcala. was known as the pieça del theatro. This study focuses on the layouts and proportions designed for this hall, which could be the key to understanding the whole project as a Renaissance theater that was singularly inspired by Roman models. Specifically, the hexagonal pattern of the coffered ceiling represents a genuine formal exploration in comparison with other wooden ceilings having similar geometric bases. All this led us to study this uncommon masterpiece as a proposal for a new model toward an intellectual and architectural recovery of the Antiquity, in the core of the Universidad, conceived for the representation of academic ceremonies and humanistic theater.
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