Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: UGO DANTAS DE SANTANA

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STUDENT : UGO DANTAS DE SANTANA
DATE: 14/06/2024
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Sala virtual [plataforma meet]
TITLE:

CONSUMING CONTEMPORARY HOUSES: UNVEILING SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CONSUMER CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTH AMERICA

KEY WORDS:

Contemporary houses, Consumer culture, Spatial configuration

PAGES: 155
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

The research addresses South American contemporary houses based on the Space Syntax Theory (Hillier and Hanson, 1984) and on its premise that social codes are recorded in the building spatial configuration. It focuses on the distribution of house functions over the spatial structure and on the possibilities of movement and visibility regarding privacy and user separation, in other words, on the patterns of spatial arrangements found among the studied houses (Hanson, 1998). These houses were designed by architects and built in a context of predominating mass production multifamily buildings and increased urban density. The idea that contemporary houses are a “consequence of modernity” (Giddens, 1991) inspires our search for contrasting evidence of spatial relations described during the 20th century to signs of changes. Some of the spatial patterns of a contemporary society marked by a “consumer culture”, point toward globalization, the pursuit of a chosen lifestyle through consumption and taste, the search for individual rights and individualization (Featherstone, 2007). Taste is understood as an aggregatory factor for groups of people and as social differentiation or, at least, a desire to be part of another group. The analysis of the plans was done through the definition, identification, and classification of each convex space, considering: interior and exterior, sector, functional and transition space. Complementary procedures were conducted to identify boundaries, areas that comprise continuous enclosed spaces, and connections among spaces that may be temporarily interrupted. An application was developed to quantify, measure, and compare information regarding the spaces as concerns classification, connections, topological distances between certain spaces, topological depth of the structure from the public space, the presence of branches and rings, types of spaces and integration values. The application considers different accesses to the house and connections between interior and exterior. Visibility analysis was applied to a subgroup of house plans for complementing the topological approach. The analysis revealed houses designed with a multiplicity of spaces for leisure, regularly associated with controlled views from the outside, attributes that suggest that they were built primarily for the consumption of experiences. Social spaces designed, as it seems, for joining inhabitants and visitors together, are completely disconnected from the public space, and commonly connected to landscaped grounds inside the plots. Moreover, part of the spatial experience, appears to occur through controlled points of view from functional spaces, but also during movement along circulation spaces, thus suggesting a certain dramatization of spatial sequences. Interior and exterior spaces display objects associated with certain lifestyles, accepting diversification of tastes. The segregated service areas, very common in Brazilian houses not so long ago, are almost completely incorporated into the social areas in these houses. These changes, combined to recurrent and more or less pervasive attributes of fairly long time spans suggest that these buildings are, in fact, houses for our times.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1720813 - GEORGE ALEXANDRE FERREIRA DANTAS
Interna - 350255 - EDJA BEZERRA FARIA TRIGUEIRO
Interno - ***.011.224-** - MARCIO MORAES VALENCA - UFRN
Externa à Instituição - FRANCINEY CARREIRO DE FRANÇA