Ch 02 · Structural Principles
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Structure as Surface

01

Mass without weight

Concrete cantilevers defy gravity so interiors feel unbounded by columns and load-bearing walls.

02

Shadow as material

Zenithal skylights carve spatial depth the way steel and stone never could — light becomes structure.

03

Formwork is authorship

Every board imprint left in the surface is a signature of the hands that shaped the pour.

04

One gesture, one building

The greatest Paulista works read as a single continuous moment — not an assembly of discrete parts.