Albert Samper

Albert Samper
Universitat Rovira i Virgili | URV · Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura

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Introduction
ALBERT SAMPER | Architect, Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2008; Master of Theory and Practice of the Architecture Project (UPC), 2011; Doctor, Ph.D. Universidad Rovira i Virgili (URV), 2014; and Doctor, PhD. Universidad de Girona (UdG), 2024. CEO Scandraw SL Spin-off.
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January 2009 - November 2016
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Position
  • Senior Researcher
January 2009 - January 2017
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Position
  • Senior Researcher

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Publications (43)
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Los sistemas de representación gráfica permiten conocer, divulgar e incluso intervenir, de un modo respetuoso y preciso un elemento arquitectónico. El presente trabajo presenta una metodología gráfica de catalogación para algunos elementos arquitectónicos que configuran la Catedral de Girona mediante un análisis geométrico y su aplicación con difer...
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This paper shows the light effects and geometric alignments created by the sunlight passing through the stained glasses of the eastern rose window in Mallorca Cathedral and projecting on the inner side of the cathedral's main façade and on the cathedral's floor. As well as providing more accurate information about these already known light effects,...
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A flying buttress serves an aesthetic purpose and two technical purposes. In particular, it helps to drain rainwater from the roof and also plays a structural role. The aesthetic and drainage functions can be determined visually and with the help of several bibliographical references. On the contrary, in order to assess the structural function a ri...
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This research shows the light effects and geometric alignments created by the sunlight passing through the stained glasses of the Eastern rose window in Mallorca cathedral and projecting on the inner side of the cathedral’s main façade. Besides, we show other novel effects which occur in coincidence with certain religious festivities.
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Historically in architecture, the inclination of a flying buttress arch is determined as the amplitude of the angle that spans between the horizontal straight line and the straight line connecting the two ends of the arch’s lower edge. Nonetheless, this inclination does not represent the entire flyer, but at most only its lower edge. Therefore, usi...
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The rooftop terrace of Palau Güell, designed by Antoni Gaudí and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is crowned by twenty ornamental chimneys. This terrace has been the subject of many historical and descriptive studies, yet so far nobody has performed a graphic analysis of the whole set of chimneys. Using photogrammetrical techniques and 3...
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This paper investigates the geometric parameters of a flying buttress: position of the center O of the intrados arch, radius R of the intrados arch, inclination α, rise F, span distance L and horizontal thickness E of the culée. Using photogrammetrical techniques, point cloud control, vector redrawing and geometric regression, this paper provides a...
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In recent years, the development of massive data capture techniques such as Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) have made it possible to develop new procedures to evaluate architectural heritage with a high level of accuracy. The study proposes a workflow to identify formal anomalies in the main elements that form a structural bay of the apse of the Ca...
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En varias referencias encontramos que el arquitecto que edificó la Lonja de Valencia se inspiró en el diseño de la Lonja de Mallorca. Esta afirmación está fundamentada principalmente, porque ambas edificaciones se enmarcan dentro del mismo estilo arquitectónico, porque las dos construcciones tienen proporciones similares y, además, son las únicas l...
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he tendency of the architect Antoni Gaudí to present reptiles in most of his works is well known; even in his most relevant work, the Holy Family. There are several reptiles that can be observed, without difficulty, sculpted on the facades of this expiatory temple; however, no reptile is displayed inside or inside the building. Now, the above state...
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Introduction: Quadric surfaces are commonly used in buildings due to their geometric ability to distribute and focus sound waves. The Central Hall in Palau Güell — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — is topped by an ellipsoidal dome. Antoni Gaudí envisaged this room as a concert hall where the organ and the dome play a lead role. Methods: The two previo...
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El Palau Güell de Antoni Gaudí está catalogado por la UNESCO como World Heritage. Es comúnmente afirmado por arquitectos e historiadores que la superficie del diseño de la cúpula que cubre el Salón Central del Palau Güell es un paraboloide. Mediante técnicas fotogramétricas y geométricas mostramos que tal afirmación no es cierta. Esta investigación...
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We analyzed theoretically and experimentally the performance of the 19 different ornamental caps of the individual chimneys located on the terrace of Palau Güell (Barcelona, Spain) designed by Antoni Gaudí. This set of chimney caps has wide range of external geometries and different number and shapes of openings. Models of the chimney caps were obt...
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This research work proposes a methodology to statistically determine the geometric configuration of a masonry cross vault. Within Cultural Heritage it is possible to find architectural elements with absent or scarce historical sources about design approach or construction techniques. The cross vault case study belongs to a partially destroyed vaul...
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La Cripta de la Colonia Güell (1898-1914) diseñada por el arquitecto Antoni Gaudí, es un bien de interés cultural y patrimonio histórico de España. Según algunos historiadores y arquitectos, las primeras bóvedas de la historia de la arquitectura con forma de paraboloide hiperbólico se encuentran en el techo del pórtico de acceso a la cripta. El pre...
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We present a geometric-astronomical correlation between the rose window on the main façade and the labyrinth of Chartres cathedral. This correlation existed throughout the building’s construction—epoch J1200–. Since classical mythology relates the labyrinth to the Taurus constellation, we will project the daily orbits of the stars of this constella...
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p class="Default">Es conocido el proceso geométrico trazado por Leon Battista Alberti al diseñar armónicamente la composición de la fachada de Santa María de la Novella en Florencia. Además, en ella encontramos 48 detalles ornamentales elaborados mediante la construcción de polígonos regulares, concretamente: 7 realizados con base pentagonal, 3 con...
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The study of the Gothic layout of Guarç (c.1345–1380) through its imprints allows the determination of the methodology of its outline. The outline of the octagon dome is determined by the geometric method of design. At the same time, the proportional theory that exists behind the parchment allows the transport of the project to the site using simpl...
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Architects and historians commonly claim that when designing the Palau Güell, Gaudí experimented with some architectural elements which would influence his later works, with the arches being prevalent in the building. But, to date, no mathematically thorough study has been conducted in order to determine the type of each of such arches. Furthermore...
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Las técnicas de captura masiva de datos, como el escáner láser terrestre y la fotogrametría, permiten analizar con precisión objetos próximos y otros no accesibles, mediante métodos estadísticos. Su aplicación ha permitido analizar desde el punto de vista geométrico las esculturas de la figura Clypeus de Tarragona, Jupiter-Ammon (s. I) y la del ros...
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We provide a method to objectively determine which is the geometric shape which best fits an arch of a heritage building within each of the conical curve types – ellipse, hyperbola, parabola – and hyperbolic-cosine curve types – catenary, hyperbolic cosine, Rankine –, and we also provide an objective measurement of that fit. This method does not in...
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The purpose of this paper is to project the astronomical daily orbits of stars through the centre of the main rose window of the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Chartres, tracing their trajectories on the cathedral’s floor plan. We geometrically show that in the astronomical epoch J1200 (close to the period when the cathedral was built), the laby...
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In the Vall d’Aran, located on the North face of Spanish Pyrinees, there is a great number of churches. Those were built between twelfth and thirteenth century, and have suffered large geometrical deformations. This is especially true in the case of Santa Maria de Unha (XII) and Santa Maria de Artíes (XII-XIII), where the deformations are over 10%...
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The study of the Gothic layout of Guarç (c.1345-1380) through its imprints allows the determination of the methodology of its outline. The outline of the octagon dome is determined by the geometric method of design. At the same time, the proportional theory that exists behind the parchment allows the transport of the project to the site using simpl...
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Los arcos catenarios fueron utilizados en la arquitectura modernista española, cuyo máximo referente fue Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926). La teoría de la cadena o chaînette, fue planteada por Robert Hooke (1676), y empleada por Christopher Wren en la cúpula de San Pablo (1675). La ecuación matemática de la catenaria será formulada David Gregory (1697) y...
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The rose window on the main façade of Orvieto cathedral is unique because its design is based on a 22-sided polygon. It is well known that the icosikaidigon cannot be constructed using only a compass and a straightedge. Therefore, using a geometric/statistical approach, we intend to unveil which approximate construction method was used by the sculp...
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This paper has academic nature, nevertheless it is an application from [9] that we think can be interesting to students and instructors of undergraduate level of physics. With low level of geometric and computational techniques the readers can reproduce the results of the present paper. The most important thing is that these results clearly show th...
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Let εb be an ellipse (b=minor axis/major axis). In this paper we consider different approximations by ovals, which are composed from circular arcs and have also two axes of symmetry. We study a) three four-centered ovals (quadrarcs) Oa4,bOc4,b, and Ol4,b, which share the vertices with the ellipse εb. In addition, Oa4,b has the same surface area, Oc...
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The rose window is one of the most representative elements of Gothic art and architecture. In this work we analyze fifteen rose windows from fifteen Gothic cathedrals using fractal geometry. Specifically, we examine the texture and roughness of these rose windows focusing on three factors, their designs, glass areas and solid areas. In this investi...
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The “Sagrada Familia” is considered to be a no-gothic temple. This negation is due to the known fact that the force distribution in the Gothic style is structurally counteracted by means of support elements. In this temple, however, the force distribution is structurally counteracted “in an organic fashion”, i.e., it is neutralised through the cons...
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The "Sagrada Familia" is considered to be a no-gothic temple. This negation is due to the known fact that the force distribution in the Gothic style is structurally counteracted by means of support elements. In this temple, however, the force distribution is structurally counteracted "in an organic fashion", i.e., it is neutralised through the cons...
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The classic patterns of Euclidean Geometry were used in the construction of the Gothic cathedrals to provide them with proportion and beauty. Still, there is also another complex concept related to them: the un-evenness of their structures, which determines their space-filling ability, that is, their level of roughness. In this paper we use the tec...
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La escalera del hall del Hotel Royal SAS de Jacobsen es testimonio de una temprana exploración sobre elementos helicoidales suspendidos; ella aparece como un elemento puntual capaz de informar el proyecto completo.
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Euclidean geometry, and especially “phi” and “pi” ratios, were used in Gothic buildings to give them structure, proportion and beauty. Moreover the euclidean elements there are complexes structures in Spanish Gothic Cathedrals: effectiveness to occupy space, roughness and amount of details that constitute its structures. The best tool to describe t...
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In this paper we analyze two suspended staircases, with the same structural type, designed by Arne Jacobsen: the staircase of the Rodovre City Hall and the staircase of the Denmark National Bank. Both are essential part of the main access hall into buildings. They were designed with seven years of difference, they have technical progress, but they...

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