Alvar Aalto e a Casa de Muuratsalo. Experimentação e Projeto

Abstract

An architect, a house and a project. This dissertation proposes a specific study about the architect Alvar Aalto and his Muuratsalo House, in order to develop an authorial project that establishes a parallel between two experimental concepts. Based on the architect's interpretation, significant moments of his life were selected, illustrating his trajectory as a person and as an architect, solidifying a theoretical context that could sustain the dynamics of the rest of the work. Thus, it was possible to transpose this investigation to a second stage, the study of the experimental house of Muuratsalo, which developed the need to understand and interpret its concepts, allowing, consequently, to choose and develop themes capable of covering the work in a global way. The third and last part of this study is related to a specific approach supported by the components of the two previous chapters. A summer house was designed in the forest area of Maceda, Ovar, in a particular context, with characteristics that, in a way, are similar to the landscape plan of the island of Muuratsalo. Here, the drawings and texts of a project that readjust wills and evoke intrinsic references to its author were elaborated, demonstrating through two-dimensional representations and three- -dimensional objects a specific design reflection, which seek to explore concepts that favor the transversality of architecture through its experimental character.