Edifício Escola - (De)composição de um espaço de encontro(s)

Abstract

The purpose of the dissertation is to prepare a study/project, as an operational response to an opportunity to enhance an architectural circumstance. The opportunity is characterized by the possibility of (re)use of the building of the old Primary School of the Tojal, in Chave-Arouca, for the composition of a meeting space, common production. A fertile response to the decomposition of the building, and the spirit/culture of the community, as a manifest of meaning of life in common (a collective movement that tends towards nature). The project process starts from the recognition of the place as a combustion matter, in a problematization that seeks to construct the problem in solution. The criteria of indeterminacy of the opportunity incite the drawing/thinking of a strategy with flexibility of variation/evolution, condition of dialogue for a negotiation with the community in order to promote a project/architecture circumstance. Therefore, this dissertation, as an effort of resistance by the common, departs from mere object composition to ally itself with the community as a manifest of political action, a practice of emancipation against totalizing discourses. This space of thought/project seeks a being between us that is the product of inter-subjectivity, an appropriation of Architecture as an action of reversibility and construction of the common.