Metáfora, analogia e exploração formal no projeto arquitetônico

Abstract

The design process is not entirely conceived in our minds, to be than "validated" by their graphic and spatial representations. By contrast, is exactly the act of representing something that makes it a "palpable" version of an idea. Being feebly determined by its yet ideal existence, this idea is largely influenced by the materiality of their own representation. In this process, the form is derived from itself, and from the interaction it develops in relation to its own materiality, to the place and to the local techniques. Although the strong resistance it has for methodological or functional organization, the design process could be enhanced through specific instrumentations. The didactic proposal described in this article tries to articulate the adoption of concepts and symbolic references to the materiality and tectonics of the proposals. In this way, the design process could be experienced dynamically and trough a nonlinear process where their representation mechanisms, more than mere media are active tools in the process of transformation of spatial, formal and functional relationships. To develop a project through the idea of a concept does not mean to overlap the materiality or the existing projective demands, but on the contrary, it is precisely through the friction between the conceptual form and its possible materialities the sense of form emerges from the integration between functionality and tectonics.