Variações tipológicas da planta circular na arquitetura ocidental

Abstract

This dissertation resulted from a continuing processregarding a practical experience carried out prior to this study, withinthe discipline of Project IV, which consisted on the development of aproposal for a circular plan building.Currently, in the western urban and architectural landscape,in general, the circular plan is still experienced in an exceptionalmanner relatively to the existing build-up structure. In most of theconstructions where it's used, it is found that its adoption resultsnormally of the application of a program for a very specific use.This study attempts to demonstrate that throughout Historycan also be seen the existence of a plurality of circular plan examples,which have a high programmatic heterogeneity, as well as, havegained a high degree of complexity in their compartmentalizationgeometry.In this work has always existed the criteria of keeping on thesidelines any quantitative or absolute approach, on the issue of circularplan.It is primarily a study that focuses essentially on mattersrelating to the positioning of the circle geometry in the historiographycontext of Western architecture, as well as on the issues of plasticnature, with mainly regard to the exploitation of this geometry forspace and utilities purposes.This work also includes the development of a typologicalexperimental study, where were considered some of the problemsinherent to the specificity of the "circular plan" as a formal base for thespace conception.In the bibliographic field, there is still a certain lack ofspecific approaches to the theme, which has also become a motivatingfactor for investment in this study.