Construir a vida dos outros. Retratos de uma realidade

Abstract

Through an inversion of the usual way of an architectural analysis, where the object is the building as a result, this work intends to build a project idea based on the study of the relationship between architecture and the perception of its inhabitants. In other words, the intention is to listen to those who appropriate the space so that, through their words it is possible to reflect on the practice of architecture. An exercise that, from the particular to the general, questions eight inhabitants of diferent buildings, based on a set of opportunities without a foreseen result, seeks in these dialogues for a concrete interpretation of architecture, based on the relationship between the formal manifestation of buildings and their human reality. This work results in eight essays that do not aim to represent models of living or particular cases, but the search for heterodoxy. A representation of the complexity that this profession submits itself to along the development of the project work, with both positive and negative expressions, that raise elementary questions about its practice, as well as about beauty, art, form or even about furniture, which is interwoven between architecture and daily life. The confrontation between these two worlds, of formal expressive interest, based on the masters of a school and a singular perception of a concrete experience, sets up the basis of the conlict in which this discipline was born: Between the simplicity of human need and the relationship with its design, path, reason, struggle and interest, translated into architecture.