Prototype for Architectural Creation and Experimentation: Method for Teaching Architectural Design

Abstract

The theme we have developed in this work, learning how to design architectural space using a dynamic and interactive method, using the tools for realizing architectural projects and creative approaches inspired by the visual arts, starts with exploring the concept of scale: scale of representation and real scale - the relationship between the human body and the architectural object. The aim of the design exercise is to build a real architectural space, using real materials, but with reduced dimensions. An object of approximately one cubic meter, with a certain dimension that you can only enter imaginatively. The apprehension and interpretation of the architectural space will be made individually by those who approach the object after it has been built, but it also functions as a laboratory for those who created it, in the successive stages of construction, choice of materials, definition of geometries (interior and exterior), in successive stages of experimentation - construction. The student is given the experience, not just of simulating the object from the outside, but of creating a space that interacts with it, similar to what happens in visual arts installations. This theme leads us to para - architectures, hence the name Para - architectural Objects, which go beyond architecture and approach the realm of the arts and their imagery. This exercise in architectural conceptualization which, through the realization of a physical model, creates a small spatial world, without obeying any functional context or pre - defined place, realized on a dynamic scale and referenced to the human body in an imaginative and creative way, means that the work created acquires architectural, plastic, artistic and symbolic value at the same time, including all the dimensions inherent in the relationship between Dwell - Architecture .