OGÁ - o pavilhao no campo ampliado do design e da arquitetura

Abstract

The technological advances obtained with the field of computational design have brought us new possibilities for architecture and design as well as, simultaneously, engendering a new expertise between the two fields. What would be under the purview of this hybrid area? What would the new expanded field of design consist of? Within this con- text, the pavilion is presented as a constituent object in this interstice, a typology endowed with potentialities that insert it in this extended field. This work aimed to explore the expanded field of design and architecture with the design of a pavilion, a traditionally architectural element, but with characteristics that place it as belonging within the expanded field. The project was intended to be the translation of the qualities of a design object, the João-de-Barro nests, due to the theme of biodesign in regards to biomimetics and biotechnology; and an object of architecture, handmade taipa houses (analogous to wattle and daub), due to the thematic of memory and innovation and taking proper care of the material and immaterial patrimony of these vernacular artifacts. For this purpose, the project was divided in two phases, where the first one is aimed at the theoretical reflection of the theme and the second one allocated to using the results of this reflection in developing the project. A research of qualitative exploratory nature was carried out, built upon case studies, a careful bibliographic survey, and the observation, definition,and comprehension of the theoretical foundations of the pavilion phenomena, the computational design in regards to conception and materialization, as well as a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the taipa houses and the João-de-Barro nests .