"A forma prateada (Mente, Corpo, Coração, Câmara)".

Abstract

This work's objective, or at least a part of it, is to answer a question that has followed me since the first grade: the search for a hidden architectural quality. An ambiguous word, without much of a physical existence, not even very scientific, quality is finally an abstraction (Francisco Alonso). In abstraction lies all potential, all matters with which contact can only be made through delicate empathy or, for the architect in conception, through intuition. The architects will is to listen to the voices of matter, predict all futures when conceiving a project; his desire to elaborate an architecture which persists and is a contribution the collective. There is not a manner of doing, not a frame for acting by the book, which leaves the architect to the responsibility of listening to his own voice as a part of the fabric of the world. It was sought to understand what matter that voice is made of, given the difficulty found on the transposition of an inner reality to an exterior one. A Forma Prateada (The Silvery Form) is the motif to reveal a part of those matters which, for me, compose the invisible thread of architecture. They are a statement of intent.