The Olivari’s firm, founded in 1911 in Borgomanero (Novara, Italy), in 1947 resumed active collaboration with the exponents of the young Italian architecture and expand its market from traditional construction to big ships. The construction of the office building, the BICA complex in 1959, was the first collaboration with architects Augusto MagnaghiDelfino and Mario Terzaghi. Magnaghi and Terzaghi designed also a handle called BICA for doors and windows that will be the first Olivari model and the first standard handle produced in Italy entirely in aluminium, material already experimented by Giò Ponti. The aluminium alloy represents the evolution in a decidedly more industrial sense of production: the feeling in the grip of the object is that of a solid lightness, connatural to the physical characteristics of the material accentuated by the design of the section that decreases and increases following the internal shape of the closed hand. The BICA, produced until 2004, is a happy solution to many issues of designing objects for living spaces. The handle gets an immediate commercial success, which lasts longer than that of many other models. In this article, we analyse geometrically the handle looking for the equations of the curves that the two architects used to design it and reproduce it using software.

A Geometrical Study of the BICA handle

P. Magnaghi-Delfino;T. Norando
2018-01-01

Abstract

The Olivari’s firm, founded in 1911 in Borgomanero (Novara, Italy), in 1947 resumed active collaboration with the exponents of the young Italian architecture and expand its market from traditional construction to big ships. The construction of the office building, the BICA complex in 1959, was the first collaboration with architects Augusto MagnaghiDelfino and Mario Terzaghi. Magnaghi and Terzaghi designed also a handle called BICA for doors and windows that will be the first Olivari model and the first standard handle produced in Italy entirely in aluminium, material already experimented by Giò Ponti. The aluminium alloy represents the evolution in a decidedly more industrial sense of production: the feeling in the grip of the object is that of a solid lightness, connatural to the physical characteristics of the material accentuated by the design of the section that decreases and increases following the internal shape of the closed hand. The BICA, produced until 2004, is a happy solution to many issues of designing objects for living spaces. The handle gets an immediate commercial success, which lasts longer than that of many other models. In this article, we analyse geometrically the handle looking for the equations of the curves that the two architects used to design it and reproduce it using software.
2018
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