Centro Paroquial de Vilar do Paraíso - O Projecto num registo de experiências

Abstract

The challenge proposed by Fr. José Manuel Lima materializes the intention of apllying all the knowledge in architecture: to create a new Parish Center for Vilar do Paraíso. The location is defined and the program is drafted. Then, it follows a set of own experiences that intimately relate the author to the spaces and themes that make part of the architectonic shape essence. A sketchbook, in-between the author and those experiences, exposes records of those encounters, physical or imagined, drawn or written, which are intersected with lines that seek that shape. This dissertation is the exploration of that process lines - the arch line - glimpsing in each experience - in each stone- the essence of the project, that is, the bridge.