Together with the Mona Lisa the other universal symbol of the Louvre, the most famous museum (and visited) in the world, is that impressive glass building that meets twice - outside and inside the building - and you It remains in the eye forever. It is the inverse pyramid protagonist in this bestselling Dan Brown and which reflects and spreads "like a prism, the light inside the subterranean hall" of the Louvre.
Tourists from around the world (including Italian) love it, but very few know that to build it were not engineers of the most popular offices in Paris, but a reality of excellence Tuscan: the Rober Glass Ltd. Calci, a small town in the province of Pisa.
The same company is now a member (along with Vitarelli Vito spa of Collesalvetti, the Iron Art of Fucecchio, the engineering firm INTRE of Lucca and Pisa University) of TVT Srl, a company‘s research and development of innovative solutions for the world architecture and civil engineering, which originates in the patent of beams glassy Tensegrity (TVT),developed at the University of Pisa from the research of Maurizio Froli. If so gives us so much, and given the precedents, the future of this company will be brighter than the glass that forms the core business.
Headquartered in Collesalvetti (Livorno) and led by President Vito Vitarelli, the TVT will debut at the Fair Glastec which takes place in Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 21 to 24, bringing his success story as a spin off (successful ) University of Pisa. The crystalline testimony that the combination of research and industry can be fruitful of great satisfaction, and Tuscany is a land more suitable for that bet.
"The beams glassy Tensegrity - explains Froli, the Department of Energy Engineering, Systems, Land and Construction - engineering are the answer to the request for an ideal dematerialization of buildings coming increasingly from the contemporary architecture. It is a construction product in prestressed structural glass and steel, currently only at the international level in the high tech,that opens the door to the possibility of building glass structures of great light and high load bearing capacity even in seismic areas, ensuring the same safety standards that now have other traditional building materials. "
The goal of the founders - communicate by the University of Pisa - which now require a large investment in cinquennio 2014-2019, is to promote the Made in Italy and boosting research in the field of structural engineering in the light of the numerous Italian awards, which in a few years has received the construction technology of TVT.
Already in 2009 Froli, with beams glassy Tensegrity, was ranked first in Research Prize Vespucci promoted by the Tuscany Region. In 2010 the glass beams have been included in the almanac of the excellence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "Winning Italy" and in 2012 have been selected among the 100 most important innovations of the Made in Italy.
After several prestigious academic awards, it expected now that the awards can get well in industry, primarily from Italy and Tuscany. It would be not only the crowning of a project born and raised here, but also an injection of great confidence for the region and the country the world‘s finest.
The great success of the Louvre is symbolized by a work of architecture (Italian) and art (Italian). Before you get depressed looking at our present and future, we should think of examples like these. |
