Publications by Patricia Guaita

Advancing TRC-LC as a sustainable technology for light prefabrication in social housing in Latin America

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Enrique Corres Sojo, David Carlos Fernandez-Ordoñez Hernandez

This paper explores the transdisciplinary methodology crafted by a collaborative research team of architects, civil engineers, and material scientists, from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and UFBA (Federal University of Bahia), in partners ...

CRC Press2025

Prototype pavilion in Fribourg: towards an upgrade of argamassa armada through Textile Reinforced Concrete

Patricia Guaita

This article describes a partnership between architects and engineers researching in Switzerland and Brazil around innovative experiences on Textile Reinforced Concrete, which aim at the upgrade of the “argamassa armada” technology developed by brazilian a ...

2022

“El Pórtico de los Huéspedes”: Exploring other ways of building at the Open City in Valparaiso, Chile

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur

This chapter examines the pedagogical approach of the Valparaiso School of Architecture and Design (Valparaiso), its position within the Chilean academic landscape and the current collaboration with the Open City Research Platform. Since 2014, this collabo ...

Routledge2022

A prototype pavilion in textile reinforced concrete: a tool for research and pedagogy

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, David Carlos Fernandez-Ordoñez Hernandez

fib. The International Federation for Structural Concrete2021

An experiential learning approach to educational development: Responses to teaching architecture through the lenses of reflective practice

Dieter Dietz, Patricia Guaita, Ingrid Le Duc

This paper tells the story of a decade-long relationship between a teaching team (TT) and an educational developer (EDP). They have been using an experiential learning approach to monitor improvements to teaching Architecture to first year students. We exp ...

ETH2020

Textile reinforced concrete for sustainable structures: Future perspectives and application to a prototype pavilion

Aurelio Muttoni, Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

Textile reinforced concrete (TRC) is a cementitious‐based material where reinforcement consists of high‐strength noncorrosive textile fabrics. Due to the use of a noncorrosive reinforcement, cover requirements can be limited to minimum static values and th ...

2020

Building Duration / El Portico de los Huespedes

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Sony Devabhaktuni

El Portico de los Huéspedes is a pedagogical, design-research project that tests the possibility of an open-ended architecture, where duration links between past and future. It is a work of architecture as becoming: ‘work’ meaning the structure, rhythms an ...

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture2019

The potential of textile reinforced concrete for design of innovative structures

Aurelio Muttoni, Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is a recent evolution of ordinary reinforced concrete. This relatively new construction material replaces steel reinforcement with high-strength, non-corrosive textile fabrics in order to reduce cover requirements to minim ...

2019

Pedagogy through artisanal construction of thin-walled concrete elements: a dialogue between engineering and architecture

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

2018