Do conceito à forma: um olhar pelo viés da Gestalt e da geometria sobre o projeto do Museu Militar de Dresden

Abstract

The subjective aspects of architecture encourage it to be encompassed as a language, as an architect’s means and mode of expression and communication. For that, it is important to provide Architecture students with the comprehension of perceptive matters of the form, in a process supported by geometry. The more curious and investigative the view of the training architect on the architectural practice is, the greater this student’s repertoire will be, in both objective and subjective matters. This way, an investigation was delimited, aiming to contribute to the teaching/learning process in the field of geometry applied to project action. The general goal is to add to structuring investigation exercises that allow to evidence intentional project/geometric actions, associated with visual sensations, and supported by the Gestalt Theory. The method used is the case study and the corpus is an intervention at the Dresden Museum of Military History, in Germany, carried out by architect Daniel Libeskind. Hypothesis are elaborated from the analysis of formal relations of the intervention and the preexistence, and they structure a didactic design capable of explaining formal adjustments from a concept. Works were analyzed from the available materials, without physically accessing the construction. The research acquired a didactic character when it proposed an explicit inspection of the formal mechanism, promoting a posture of investigation about formal configurations. Geometric diagrams are produced and structure graphic-interpretative analysis. Gestalt elements are used to decode the visual control of the intervention. One understands that the acquisition of a project vocabulary, considering architecture as a language, is an inexhaustible action. Results refer to an integrative analysis, a didactic manner of associating geometry and psychology, to infer about visual sensations provoked by the intervention. The work of relating each and every aspect that is found shows to be important to translate a concept into a form, expecting to increase formal repertoire, intentions repertoire, concepts and so on.