The private house of engineer Jean-Marie Huberty and its hypar roof. A unique experiment in concrete construction in Belgium in the 1960s

In 1961-64, Jean-Marie Huberty (1932-2014) built a modest house for himself and his family, somewhat concealed on a plot in La Hulpe, located a few kilometressouth-east of Brussels(Fig.1). Fair-faced concrete was used extensively. The unique character of this house is further enhanced by the experimental nature of the roof: it was constructed as a thin shell in reinforced concrete only 5 centimetresthick, composed of two adjacent hyperbolic paraboloid surfaces, spanning roughly 10 by20 metres. For the design of this unusual, daring roof structure, Huberty called in the help of engineer André Paduart (1914-85), Belgium’s key figure when it comes to thin shells in reinforced concrete. It was carried out by a local contractor, who had little experience in reinforced concrete construction, in an almost archaic way

ISBN:978-0-9928751-6-9

Trefwoorden:concrete construction, Jean-Marie Huberty, André Paduart, architects' houses, hypar, 1960s

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