Volume e volumetria: pesquisa sobre a distinção destes conceitos para a análise de arquitetura

• Ano de defesa: 2005
• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Eduardo Nogueira Martins
• Orientador(a): Perrone, Rafael Antonio Cunha
• Banca de defesa: Gasperini, Gian Carlo, Szabo, Ladislao
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
• Departamento: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: teoria da arquitetura; metodologia de analise de arquitetura; edifícios comerciais
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/26214

This research is based on the use of design as a reflection and analysis tool on the plastic values which are inherent to architectural works. For that purpose, a laboratory method has been devised, which uses designs to identify intuitive and subjective data which, jointly worked, lead to objective conclusions. Another research aspect aims to demonstrate, and originating from this tool, the interest in the study of architectural plastic themes in a separate mode, clarifying an issue which is clear and usual among the producers of architectural projects, with broad understanding being made possible by means of a visual reading, not literary. The key issue of the study searches for a conceptual definition, for didactic purposes in architecture, of differences between “volume” and “volumetry”. The research had its focus on vertical buildings, of mixed or commercial use, preferably located on corners, as the characteristics of this type of building facilitate the theme visual identification. The adopted method was the separate design of “volume” and “volumetry” from photographs of buildings, thus providing conditions for comparative analysis. Said analysis identifies if the “volumetry” work has been changed, has been kept or has reinforced the “volume” characteristics. The photographs elect a unique viewpoint and limit the surrounding visualization focus, also restricting the design and its intuitive readings. With those data, one has come to the conclusion that there is interest in proposing a didactic separation between the “volume” and “volumetry” concepts, also demonstrating that the understanding of the issue comes through an “insight” process, a perception which matures and materializes after repetitive readings of elaborated designs. For that purpose, two laboratory pieces of research have been developed: The first aimed at gathering a comprehensive number of examples, by searching for a broad spectrum of plastic analyses. Those examples constitute a broad essay made up of selected buildings among those which have been built after the invention of elevators. The selection did not aim at making a history of architecture of vertical buildings but the purpose was to elect those, which could with their form, guarantee the necessary elements to the research. The buildings have been analyzed one by one and in the end, jointly, by means of linear graphics formed within a time frame. The second essay aimed at experiencing the same method in examples of personal works. The research has been applied in the buildings which have been published, almost all of them located on corners and of commercial use. The conclusion confirms the interest of the method also for the plastic analysis of own projects. In this case, it has been revealed that the projects contain “volumes” which are worked on a plastic mode and “volumetries” which reinforce them, opposing to the functionalist and simple principles which intended to be contained in its conception. This latest essay tried to identify the existing interest in applying the method developed in an in-depth mode. Therefore, one may be concluded that it is possible to identify, in details, the concepts and differences between “volume” and “volumetry”.