| dc.description.abstract | The shape of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is problematized here with the didactic interest
of investigating the design strategies used by Frank Gehry to reconfigure the urban fabric and
landscape involved. There are few discourses about the design, accompanied by objective
reasoning and supported by its formal decomposition. The convenience of this complementation
is considered, given its potential as a reference in the architectural training process. We
hypothesize that the shape of the building comes from a reduced repertoire of formal
fragments within this fabric and landscape, configured both by classical composition rules and
by fractal geometry. This interpretation, constructed by means of overlapping drawings to the
photographic and technical images of the building and its immediate surroundings and by the
concept of fractal dimension, facilitated the identification of strict formal control, which starts
with the regulation of its representations in orthographic projection, maintaining proportions,
parallelism and convergences; such as in perspective, exploring continuity achieved through
anamorphic effects. Thus, we demonstrate the use of a method, of geometric approach, which
facilitates the construction of hypotheses regarding design strategies. In this case, Gehry’s
strategies to dialog with a particular urban fabric: through recursive actions, using topologic
transformations, in its mathematical meaning, in the formal vocabulary of the place itself,
actions today made easy through the digital means of representation. | pt_BR |
