Oct 9, 2020 12:23
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Italian term

quinte di pilastri

Italian to English Other Architecture
This is an article about the GalFa Tower in Milan. This particular paragraph describes very briefly its construction. I have no idea how to translate "quinte di pilastri". I know "quinte" in the theatrical sense, but I do not know how to apply it to this context. Below is the sentence. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!

La struttura di cemento armato, formata da sei quinte di pilastri arretrate dal filo della facciata...

Proposed translations

2 hrs

bearing and shear walls

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I found this description similar to your Italian source where 6 walls/quinte are mentioned...maybe it will help but I'm not sure if it's the exact equivalent translation of the term...maybe an architect out there could tell you if they correspond!

The main structure of the building is made up of six reinforced concrete bearing and shear walls, differently oriented and set back from the outer edge which is coated by curtain walls: continuous facade in glass and duralumin, separate from the structure, giving special lightness and allowing to see the modern open spaces inside.
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reinforced concrete wing-walls / reinforced concrete shear wing-walls

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The focus term is wing-walls
https://africaneditors.org/journal/IJPS/full-text-pdf/07061-...
https://sites.google.com/site/cabrillocollegeta9/_/rsrc/1321...
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandra_Pagliano/pub...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/a4000c41-3e79-4b3a...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eqe.2890


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Note added at 22 hrs (2020-10-10 11:21:58 GMT)
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some references for "quinta"

"shear wing-wall"
https://www.google.com/search?q="shear wing-wall"&rlz=1C1CHB...

"concrete wing-wall"
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_itDO884DO884&sxsrf...

"seismic" "wing wall"
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_itDO884DO884&sxsrf...

"wing wall" "reinforcement"
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_itDO884DO884&sxsrf...

and so on

TRANSLATION
https://www.wordreference.com/enit/wing

"muro di quinta"
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_itDO884DO884&sxsrf...

"muro di ala"
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_itDO884DO884&sxsrf...

I think it is quite clear
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