Casa: Uma poética da terceira pele

Abstract

The spatial perception relates to positions of different natures facing the environment: we establish utilitarian relationships to it; relationships that evoke symbolic characteristics of the space; or that are based on feelings arising from the direct involvement of individuals with the environment. This essay brings together impressions that inhabit the three worlds considered above, and is part of an exercise that seeks the meaning of architecture. Since the investigation of the nature of the architectural object, as dwelling space, goes through the understanding of the qualities of being human, we elect topics that assume aspects of this condition (desires, needs, goals): water, fire, inside and outside, light and shade, movement, empty. And we did it through the house, the first place of existential reference, designed as an extension of the body and that carries, like the body, the image of all, through the condition of particular microcosm.