Space Behind Abstraction: The Metamorphosis of Shape

Abstract

Purpose: to demonstrate the relation among various architectural contents, whose synthesis is materialized in the
design of the architectural space. Method: to develop, in the context of the curricular unity of Drawing, of the Architecture Program, the conception of an architectural space, through an exploratory exercise, using the abstraction of a spot as a starting point, in order to achieve, by its metamorphosis, different kind of spaces, which reflect its main characteristics. The process is
experimental, from the analysis and interpretation of the intrinsic qualities of the spot, to the conception of a threedimensional spatial model. Results and conclusion: the perception that the formulation of space, in architecture, is a synthesis of several
knowledges. This exercise shows, taking as a starting point something so abstract as a spot, one can, through an
experimental process of interpretation, obtain architectural space.