Antonio Sena

Analysis and design of residential architectural space. Study of shape and volume. Dwelling, living. Being, resting, producing, recreating within the scope of the residence. Organization and structuring of space on the housing scale. Study of the relationship between the residential building and the site and surroundings, observing physical, typological characteristics, proportion and scale. Flows, circulation and connections in internal environments and between them and external environments. Continuity of studies carried out in Introduction to the Project (ARQ1101), deepening aspects such as: study of form and volume, analysis of architectural space, organization and structuring of space. The study of spatial relationships and proportions between sectors, environments and the exterior space of a residence. The study of the dimensioning of residential space, sectors and environments, through the critical and concrete use of space and furniture through the analysis of real examples visited, survey and recognition of the living spaces themselves and encouraging each student to search for these notions. The relationships between the architectural object and the site and immediate surroundings, observing typology, proportion, scale and physical characteristics, solar orientation, topography, existence of watercourses, vegetation, neighboring buildings, among others. Notions of design methodology and timeline for evolution. Initial notions of structure.

Individual work. Planning and development of a project relating to one of the areas of architecture and/or urbanism, or development of research work of a theoretical or experimental nature, under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Presentation and defense of the final project.

The course speculates on the relationship of skin as a CONTACT SURFACE between concept/object/technique in art, architecture and urbanism. It explores new ways of thinking and building in contemporary times, where the notion of skin takes on the meaning of an ambivalent limit that creates patches of transition instead of rigid boundaries between conceptual formulation and digital technical exploration. The theoretical part focuses on contemporary art and architecture theory and the design part on digital technologies. There are no prerequisites and the expected products are free format.

The course aims to follow the processing of classical language in architecture, based on the recognition of its foundations. Such a study should be enriched by guided readings and individualized analysis of some of the most significant works of Western architecture in the period studied, these always being considered in relation to the cultural environment in which they participate.

The debate between modernity and postmodernity. Conceptual bases of contemporary architecture. Theories of contemporary architecture. Critical regionalism. Architecture and context. Deconstructivism, neorationalism and supermodernism. Architecture of folds (the fold, le pli). The situationist international. Architecture from the use of the computer.