RCR Arquitectes: Essências Atmosféricas, entre a Abstração Poética e a Autenticidade Geométrica.

Abstract

As the fundamental premise of the proposal to obtain the Integrated Master Degree in Architecture, it was considered an enormous interest expressed in the language and aesthetics of a growing architecture studio - RCR ARQUITECTES - wich consolidated the opportunity to deepen the knowledge about that subject and to contribute to its recognition and subsequent study within the Portuguese academic class. Given the pressing demand to examine, experience, feel and convey into words the selected theme, it was established, as a researcher, the horizon/project of visiting all the infrastructures built by this studio in order to obtain a more complete and genuine knowledge, through direct observation of the context and its architecture, including a visit to the actual place of work and direct contact with the concerning architects. The photographic reports were taken as a fundamental element to better illustrate and communicate the observed and lived experience, enabling a more precise and unique narration from those works, by exploiting the mutual contribution between these two creation worlds: Architecture and Photography. During the development of the research there were felt, however, other needs, namely the grounding, the substantiation of the adopted aesthetic philosophy and the resulting architectural language. This way, a study plan focused on understanding and mapping, above all, its creative genesis and how it is defined and developed. It was intended to also contextualize the origins of the studio: the individual and collective biographic route of the architects; the critical view (external and internal) and the creative process in which they are supported (ideological philosophy and working method). Their architecture excludes the superfluous to try to uncover the essential, the authentic, defining and basing themselves in the initial (philosophic, objective, imagistic) concept of the object/work to produce, where the use of abstraction tries to capture its formal essence, producing a truly unique atmospheric and sensorial feeling.