A Maquete e os Processos Projetuais: Ideia e criatividade em prática de ateliê.

Abstract

Creative thinking in architecture must be present in professional training of students. Architecture schools provide the basis for the teaching of design practice, when the development of creativity is linked to the technical knowledge. The use of physical models emerges in ancient times and has been throughout history an important tool to understand and represent, on a reduced scale, the proposed architecture. It serves as a working and thinking mechanism and device for builders, designers, architects and academics, as a means of expression and representation of ideas. The theoretical framework of this work is based on an investigation throughout history on the different panoramas and the diversification of the use and implementation of models. Currently, there have been profound transformations of designing strategies, fostered mainly by the new digital media. After the emergence and popularization of computers, the physical model as a designing mechanism seems to lose some of its representativeness and gradually becomes obsolete, being used by students and professionals, in the final representation of the project, as a marketing and selling product of architecture. However, manual models offer a high degree of understanding and overview of a project, since they provide the direct reading of physical, spatial, volumetric and technical aspects, contributing to the experimentation and sharpness of the visual and tactile senses of those who work with them. The objective of this study is to review the use of physical models as a tool in the design process, reflecting upon its potential throughout designing practice. To do so, a designing project using the model to support creativity was carried out, having an urban park for the city of Pelotas / RS as a development artifact. The activity was implemented with students of the third semester in the discipline of Expression and Graphic Representation III, from the Architecture and Urbanism College of the Federal University of Pelotas. In the end, it was possible make some notes and arguments for future work of students and teachers, as well as researchers who intend to develop the topic.