Do Umbral ao Horizonte: Da essência íntima para um posicionamento na arquitectura

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of an investigation guided by the desire to make operative the semantics of our dispositions of delay. In this sense, this project presents itself as a movement of returning home, a distance, to read in the light of disciplinary knowledge of architecture, the singularities, what lays very close to us, what gives body to the sense of dwelling, what makes home. One welcomes an idea of Architecture freed from the prejudices and dogmas of specialization; the admission that the projectual procedure is not a single gesture, but rather a critical exercise, according to which the idea is transformed into form; a project of autonomy in relation to the foundation of other knowledges. In this condition of study and experience, one notes (re)encounters between science, practice, experience, history, memory and circumstance; a project that blurs materiality to give room for subjectivity; a project of movements and delays, from some past, present, on the way to a horizon. It is about (in)forming personality, constructing a posture and a form of relationship with the world, where the process brings together study and testimony. Recognizing Architecture as a knowledge in synthesis, we head home in three main moments (distinct, but related), with the common intention of giving substance to possible foundations for the construction of a position in the practice, a project of own architecture : the Threshold, which is marker of movement, concentrates understanding, gathers knowledge and causes the first distance; the Folding(s) that bring together experience and event - the singularity and one's self time; the Horizon that calls for projection, a leap for a practical vocation.