Máquinas de habitar: protótipo duma cápsula habitável com recurso a materiais metálicos

Abstract

This work explores the concept of machine in architecture and focuses on the authors and works that most contributed to an adaptation of architecture to industry and technology, taking over mechanized technology as a project tool. This paper further analyses some architect's work, like Buckminster Fuller, who used, in 1930, aeronautical technology in the architecture work. Producing, for example, houses with the same manufacturing process as airplanes construction; or other architects who explore the ideia of machine in a more aesthetic or conceptual way, for example, Richard Rogers or Wes Jones, respectively. This research serves to complement the practical project of this paper, which consists of a prototype of a summer festivals shelter, under the concept of habitable capsule. The intention of this work is the understanding of the techniques, technologies and materials that are the basis of industrial construction, for the most sustained practical project, true to the industrial reality. The project is part of an ideas competition where it received the second prize of the jury and includes a specification, which includes a description of the building, an energy certification document, a map of measurements and budget and the respective technical drawings. In addition, there is a presentation of the project which includes the conceptual development, the presentation of the first ideas that gave rise to the project and a summary of representative images of the project.