ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Santiago Calatrava's approach to architectural design and the combination of the mechanical and the human aspect in his work by examining a building that resembles the human eye. His City of Arts and Sciences could be seen as an urban sculptural/architectural and engineering place, where the architect's works, architectural and engineering structures, are exhibited and could be seen also as visual/sculptural/architectural projections and structures, symbolising the human presence in the city in a mass collection of ornaments. Calatrava's Eye structure, the L'Hemisferic/The Planetarium in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, works as a fragmented disembodied human body part, both global and regional, personal and impersonal. The structure of the L'Hemisferic/The Planetarium in Valencia has and works as a sort of realisation or attempt of the post-modern avant-garde notions for the mechanisation and the adaptive kinesis of buildings, as it was expressed by Archigram's Walking City in the 60s.
