Entre a abstracção e a natureza, considerações sobre o lugar na experiência de Arquitetura

Abstract

Since long ago man builds based on a direct relationship with his natural context, not only by mimetism and by gathering raw materials for their constructions, but also as a primordial condition for seeking shelter and, consequently, for the creation of architecture, making it the paradigm of its built forms. Nowadays, this condition has changed. Its relationship became essentially aesthetic, sensory and pleasant, and natural forces are seen as a benign essence to man's existence. Architecture is the reflection of this, beginning gradually and sporadically to seek new relationships with the natural environment, not only for the more evident connection with the landscape and the context, but also using the natural as an abstract matter that is reflected in the architectural materialization. Thus this research aims to focus on the two concepts - abstraction and nature - verifying how they complement the creation of places and unique phenomenological and sensory experiences. Being in an time essentially marked by an accelerated and visual reality, it is interesting to understand how these "fragile" moments, exacerbated by their natural raw context, challenge the rhythm and the contemporary standards, managing to generate striking and unexpected moments, bearing in mind, in a way or another, the essential condition of man. Fruit of a personal experience lived in many different contexts, and also a wish to explore my own fascination with certain architectural preferences, "Between Abstraction and Nature" aims to be exactly that: an opportunity to address thematics, explore concepts and assuming many navigation points that are "between" these two terms, in order to understand why architectures that are developed under this particular and sensitive perspective, create distinct places and are assumed as significant experiences in relation to other expressions and contexts.