AIMS / Working from a context that reafirms the importance of emptiness in all gestures and actions, which constantly confront the constructed space and the natural space where we live our daily lives. And creating a New Narrative Through the spaces of Three iconic Houses.
METHOD / Thinking and looking at emptiness as a design strategy that supports the construction of a place.
a) Select and present a house during the workshop.
b) Choose two additional houses from a list provided by instructors.
c) Integrate spaces from the three chosen houses to create a new architectural design.
d) Convey a fresh architectural spirit and narrative through the new design.
e) Display, present the project within the workshop space.
TECHNIQUE / Emptiness is a tool and method of experimentation that allows the identification of strategies that improve a physical place that humans can occupy spiritually.
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 more as something present in the built space. We speak of active emptiness as an emptiness that generates and provides symbolic and identity spaces.
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Porto School of Architecture. Portugal
Alberto Lage + Beatriz Freitas
jlage@arq.up.pt