YES! THE 8 HOUSE IS TECTONIC!
(Sim! A 8 House é tectônica!)
Tectonics; digital tectonics; graphical analysis methods; project
analysis; Bjarke Ingels; BIG, 8 House.
The object of study of this thesis consists of the analysis of constructive poetics,
also understood as tectonic expression, in the contemporary architecture of a city
building. The concept of tectonics emerges from the intricate relationships
between constructive materiality, the techniques used and the design of the
building, establishing a hermetic relationship of interdependence in which no
aspect can be disregarded. To characterize and document this condition, a set of
specific readings were carried out that address and promote themes related to
the development of the thesis, including the concept of tectonics and
contemporary digital tectonics. The theoretical framework for constructing the
analytical method was based on graphic analysis methods developed by
renowned authors, such as Clark & Pause (1983), Geoffrey Baker (1998) and
Francis Ching (2002). Associated with tectonic analytical parameters, these
methods sought to understand the relationships between the site and the formal
architectural structure, the resistant structure and the formal structure, the sealing
elements and the formal structure, and, finally, the architectural form and
computational tools. Thus, it was possible to build a didactic matrix that allowed
us to analyze the tectonics in the 8 House project, prepared by the contemporary
office BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and completed in 2010 in Copenhagen,
Denmark. The underlying hypothesis argues that design strategies are employed
that link the resistant structure to the technical-constructive conception, and that
there is a concern and resistance in the development of constructive poetics,
since its structures are justified in the formal expression of architectural space.
Additionally, the use of computational resources in the formal resolution of the
building is attributed to the new digital tectonic perspectives in the development
of the project by the BIG Office. The main objective was to understand and outline
the tectonic expression in the architecture of a city building, in this case, the 8
House, in order to provoke reflections on the importance of constructive poetics
in the formal structure of architecture produced in recent years. This contributed
to the debate about the particularities and singularities of this architecture. The
study validated the hypothesis and demonstrated that constructive poetics
maintains its relevance in the intrinsic relationships between construction
techniques, materialities and formal conditions of the analyzed architecture.