Advisor: Fernando Espósito
Dissertation: Architecture of hospitality: Welcoming of dweller on the border between building and city
Defense date: 27/04/2021
Abstract
What generates hospitality in architecture? How does architecture welcome
dweller at the transition boundaries of space? These are the main questions that
motivate the work. The object of study is hospitality in architecture, based on the
relationship between dweller and place. Amidst contemporary cities that are often
hostile, thinking about architecture of hospitality is necessary. The idea of a border,
as a spatial cut-out, reveals potential for this investigation because, through its
treatment, it is possible the sewing between different spaces, enabling places of
welcoming. Thus, the work has as main objective, therefore, to investigate the
welcoming of dweller at the borders of space. Some concepts emerge in a relevant
way in the understanding of studied relationships, such as the concepts of place, of
dwell, of affection and of border. Methodologically, for the case studies, the
mentioned concepts are articulated with contextual analysis tools (physical,
historical, and social) such as observation sketches, diagrams, dimensioning and
collage. The investigation provides, in this way, new possibilities and the necessary
subsidies for the analysis of architectural works in search of a hospitality of place.
It started from emblematic works, in different contexts and scales, up to everyday
spaces in Rio de Janeiro, analyzed in the study cases (Praça São Salvador e Mureta
da Urca). The choice of these is mainly due to the collective character of these
places, characterized by the presence of elements that offer hospitality to those who
dwell it, associated with a favorable context for hosting. It seeks to recognize in
these analyzes the gestures that provides welcoming to the place through
architecture. It is proposed here that hospitality in architecture occurs through
different strategies that operate in different scales. From the body scale, through the
building scale, until the urban scale.