Da Ideia à Execução: Inquietações sobre a Prática Projetual

Abstract

This master's thesis provides a critical reflection on design practices when conditioned by the professional context, and the challenges that arise in the transition from the academic world to the practice in an office, based on an internship experience in the Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos architectural practice. When work is carried out outside the academic world, a series of constraints arise that will affect the quality and the way in which a project is resolved. There are clients, bureaucratic, technical, and constructive issues, among many others, that become impossible to not take into consideration. The aim of this dissertation is to understand, through critical reflection, the process of designing when conditioned by the professional context, and the complexity of the architect's role in this aspect of the profession. Through this pre-professionalisation experience, the design process is explored from the initial idea to the constructive detail and its execution.