O projecto doméstico. A evolução da terminologia do programa da casa

Abstract

The concept of home and dwell is already a rich and assorted field of study, forming one of the areas of greatest interest in architecture. In this research we seek recognition of the program, in the context of domestic design, as an operational tool. Our research was concentrated on the development of a study about the transformation of the terminology of the program of the house, investigating the designations given to spaces that are or were part of the housing project, in the portuguese context over the past centuries. With the goal of understanding the landscape of domestic program, we prepared a compilation of terms, made from the consultation of generic bibliography on domestic space and portuguese magazines of the twentieth century, specialized in architecture. This allowed a grouping of terms by categories, linking them with foreign terms, which are the source of much of the lexicon created. The work consists of two parts. In the first introductory part, we intend to make a contextualization of the domestic program, analyzing the specificity of this instrument in the field of architecture and the fundamental aspects since its evolutionary character to the utility at the time of conception of the architectural object. The body of work aims to dissect fragments and spaces of the house, presenting terms that constitute the domestic program and revealing their names and evolution. We seek to observe the domestic space as a territory of multiple knowledges. This work is a compilation of ideas, opinions and definitions.