“Industrializzazione tradizionale”, un’alternativa italiana: il sistema Structurapid di Leòn Battista Gaburri / The Italian way of “traditional industrialization”: the Structurapid system by Leòn Battista Gaburri, i

In 1941, Leon Battista Gaburri filed a patent for a "Method for building up buildings of all kinds". His challenge was the design of a construction system able to streamline the construction of reinforced concrete structures, thanks to a process faster than the cast in place, but same economic and "craft". So, the patent explains the Structurapid system: a prefabricated structure in reinforced concrete, composed of a series of hollow elements, easy to be assembled in a traditional construction site. The construction - carried out with using a single wooden winch, "tying" the bars and "filling" the elements with a completion casting - did not require any degree of mechanization and specialization. Therefore, in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the system was widely applied for various kind of building, throughout the national territory, getting a significative heritage of structures. Today, the italian way of "traditional industrialization" of the Structurapid system is still in wide use in developing countries.