Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação nº 11 (2014)

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    Design as a key for understanding, a pretext for action, a synthesis of knowledge
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Frazão, Marta Felicidade Mateus; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    This paper considers the current investigation under the context of a PhD thesis.The research theme focuses on exploring possible strategies to promote and empower the Rural Territory, through the historical and cultural use of springs with therapeutic properties, in Baixo Alentejo region of Mértola, where we observe a significant concentration of bathing places, which are nowadays in a declining process.This research explores and considers the connection and complementarity between theoretical and operational field, the narrative and design, the thinking process and possible action. The main purpose of this paper is to identify some of the mechanisms and working methods that have been adopted, with special focus on the‘diagram’, understood as an essential design tool and therefore a graphic instrument that organises information, activates thinking and stimulates unexpected possibilities for action.
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    Different reflections of architectural knowledge on design
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Dursun, Pelin; Avci, Ozan; Saglamer, Gülsün; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    Design in architecture starts by understanding dynamics of a context and by decoding the knowledge of place where the space will be created. These are then transformed into spatial concepts and end with spatial formations. Subjective knowledge that is especially enhanced by the experiences of the architect and scientific knowledge come together to lead this design process. The aim of this study is to reveal how architects from different cultures produce knowledge of space and the ways of transforming this knowledge into design process. Different architectural reflections of this knowledge are illuminated by the design proposals of architecture students from two different countries. Comparative evaluations focusing on the student worksare considered as an instructive process for architects that make indiscernible discernible, vary the possibilities and by this way enhance their own architectural knowledge.
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    For from design and through design and for design are all things
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Sequeira, Marta; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    Academic research in architecture has mainly become a theoretical activity driven away from its subject’s core, focusing in complementary fields. Analytical investigations are common – concerning historical character, theoretical, constructive or technological – as well as propositional thesis – mainly regarding construction and technology. Yet, you can find much investigation in this scientific area, which find its significance in other domains. However, project-based theses in architecture, in which there are no antagonism or exclusion between theory and practice but rather promote complementarity, are quite scarce. This paper aims to answer the question that seems natural and consistent with the above scenario: how can we define a new paradigm, in which architecture would be understood and portrayed as a system for producing and spreading knowledge?
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    From interpretation of the site to the project: a proposal for the rock art of the Tagus Valley
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Benjamim, Mário Monteiro; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    An artificial intervention in the landscape, like the immersion of a large area by areservoir, not only implies the obvious change in the usefulness of a resource, it can also dramatically affect the site by concealing the human legacy, landscape and patrimonial heritage, however important to the understanding of its historical makeup. The research we developed has the purpose to conceive strategies to expose therock art of the Tagus Valley, which has been immersed by the construction of theFratel dam on 1974, and the subsequent filling of the reservoir. These strategiespertain to a more extensive scope of intervention, where the engravings become acohesive part of the current landscape, creating new usages for the premises and newopportunities for regional development. It is in this context that we find thepossibility to validate a theoretical model of in-project research, through a concreteproposal of intervention; proposal that, in addition to being an experiment in design,will allow us to correct strategic methodologies and to progressively perfect thetheoretical model itself.
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    Manipulations in the abstract space
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Schurk, Holger; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    At the centre of the examinations presented here are the interaction processes taking place at the interface between theory and form in the design process effectuated by means of intermediate media – most of all drawings – in the sphere of geometry. A decisive role is assigned to abstraction, allowing to locate graphic representations at the threshold between the projection of a structural model and the notation of an imagined model. A graphic study based on the design drawings created by the architecture office OMA/Rem Koolhaas are applied here as an example in order to describe and investigate this interface. In the process the drawings are manipulatedin a hybrid procedure consisting of manoeuvres determined by rules on one hand and free operations on the other. The examination method thus stands in direct analogy to the hybrid character of the design process itself.
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    Outside the category
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Bang, Jacob Sebastian; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    It is a recurring theme in my research to establish collections of study models and to find ways of decoding, transforming and representing them in drawings and as new models. The models are “outside the category”: pure form and architectural potential -“prior to an idea”. To become architectural ideas, they must be decoded in drawings in order to be dissolved into architectural signs and rules.
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    A passage in action research
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Coxito, António; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    With different conditions and levels, one can find in contemporary wealthy societies potential situations for the intervention of the architect where it is assumed an intentional avoidance of their presence, that can result in squats, ecovillages or many unnoticed who seek autonomy from something or someone.While in a theoretical research on architecture without architects a systematic enquiry can be produced without taking the part of the subject, in practice based research on the same subject, to keep its character can result in an artifact not validvis-a-vis the architects practice, albeit presenting the printed document with the appropriate tools and methods for an academic research.In the present research it is simulated a situation of scarcity, including the absence ofthe presence of the architects skills.
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    The relational space: designing new urban hinges in suspended edge places
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Aquilar, Giorgia; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    The research on tentative strategies for designing spaces which reveal themselves as relational, choral, shared, participated, gains new meanings and renovated urgencies under the changing conditions of contemporary architectures, landscapes and cities.Object of inquiry is the complex whole of transitional spaces, intermediate places,suspended fragments hovering among different morphological, historical, social contexts, expressing unexplored potentialities as new urban hinges. These mediatedjoint-spaces – acting as relational devices – provide the opportunity to reflect on theovercoming of the traditional theme of public urban space. Therefore the sustained hypothesis resides in the turning of the idea of "relation" from a conceptual device –for the interpretation of space quality – into a strategic tool with multiple methodological values, whose implications may be investigated through the concrete experience of the project.
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    Research and practice: full-size practical constructions for the development of innovative lithic prototypes
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2014) Fallacara, Giuseppe; Calabria, Claudia; Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação
    The construction of full scale architectural elements has the double purpose of experimental control for researchers and teaching resource for students. In the first case model allows to make an experimental verification, creating a reference point to confirm or refute the starting hypothesis. The second function makes possible to stimulate students’ way of thinking, involving both abstract and concrete design aspects. This link between research, teaching and practice of construction is shown in various examples. This relation represents a necessary element in order to successfully proceed in the advance of architectural experimentation.