METHOD / Thinking and seeing at emptiness as a design strategy that supports the construction of a place.
TECHNIQUE / Emptiness is a tool and a method of experimentation that allows the identification of strategies that improve a physical place that human can occupy spiritually.
AIMS / Working from a context that reaffirms the importance of emptiness in all gestures and actions, which constantly confront the constructed space and the natural space where we live daily.
STRENGTHS / Development of the perception and need for the existence of emptiness using the creative process as a means of awareness. Like Eduardo Chillida and Jorge Oteiza´s sculptures, emptiness is no longer an absence, but a matter present in the built space. We speak of active emptiness, that is, an emptiness that generates and provides symbolic and identity spaces.
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto:
Alberto Lage (jlage@arq.up.pt)