About the speculative design of architectural space: experiences, metaphors and abstraction

Abstract

The acts of imagining, creating and projecting are concepts of pure speculation, since, at the beginning of the process, conscientious architects do not know with certainty what is going to be achieved, but with the objective of always improving what exists. Architects such as Peter Eisenmann, Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe and Peter Zumthor aim to speculatively propose formal solutions in their projects based on abstract, metaphorical and experiential concepts