Lugar: Projecto, Construção e Memória. Entre a contribuição e a pertinência

Abstract

This dissertation aims at the understanding of a working method that is based on a constant discussion between the contribution and relevance of auscultation of the context. Thereat, one aims to study the context of a project carried out in the course of advanced studies in architectural project (Eapa), which made possible the emergence of questions that lead to the realization of this thesis. The possible attribution of meaning to this same context makes reading an acknowledgement of all its aspects: the place. For this we resort to a possible separation of a subject values, this subject being the architect, between independent and dependent to help understand its structure. On one hand the history that precedes the place, and matter with which it materializes, on the other the experience of the subject in the apprehension by the senses of the space that surrounds him, the atmosphere and the attribution of meaning through memories. Each of these elements is then deconstructed in order to understand its true relevance to the project, always heeding to the architect's position in each matter. It is believed that it's in this process that the architect declares his stand in the discipline of architecture. What is proposed is that the context is what allows the architect to not ever face a blank sheet.